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1. University of Ottawa student activist not guilty of trespassing

   Graduate student still faces mischief charges after writing a political message on school walls

   Jun 15 by Yeamrot Taddese

   University of Ottawa graduate student Joseph Hickey has been found not guilty of trespassing charges after occupying uOttawa President Allan Rock’s office. A trespass notice was issued last December after Hickey allegedly wrote graffiti on a school billboard wall that read “these walls belong to students.” He still faces mischief charges. Hickey, who is also a physics teaching assistant at...

2. Rebel prof not done yet

   Student journalist spied on me, says the physics professor fired after giving A+ to an entire class

   Mar 11 by Tim Legault

   Denis Rancourt, a former tenured University of Ottawa professor who was fired last year after giving everyone in his fourth-year physics class an A+, wants his job back. Rancourt hopes to win a labour law arbitration case against the university so he can recover his job and laboratory. “The truth is my dismissal was a political firing to remove a...