Shailee Shah

Sep 21, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Shailee Shah |Jennifer Diamond |Sahas Barve |Elissa J. Cosgrove

AbstractInbreeding, or breeding with close relatives, often decreases individual fitness, but mate choice in many species can increase inbreeding risk. Inbreeding is more likely in species with limited dispersal, such as cooperative breeders where non-parental individuals - often offspring from previous broods - provide parental care and frequently breed close to home.

Nov 17, 2023 | thefulcrum.ca | Shailee Shah

Reading Time: 2 minutesUniversity of Ottawa student Raz Hadar was taken into custody on Sunday afternoon at the Palestine Unified Rally & March on Parliament Hill. The man was allegedly chanting ‘save Palestine from Hamas,’ as well as slurs and obscenities at protestors before being taken away by officers. Hadar, a second-year conflict studies and human rights student, confirmed his identity as the individual who was detained through his social media the day after.

Nov 12, 2023 | thefulcrum.ca | Shailee Shah

Reading Time: 3 minutes25 community organizations, unions, local advocacy groups, and Horizon Ottawa have signed onto an open letter urging the Ottawa Police Services Board (OPSB) to oppose the approval of a new “Neighborhood Operations Centre” in the ByWard Market. The nearly 3,000 square-foot station was approved to be placed in the CF Rideau Centre across from the Rideau LRT station, for a five-year period starting Feb. 15, 2024.

Nov 6, 2023 | thefulcrum.ca | Shailee Shah

Reading Time: 3 minutesOttawa’s Lansdowne redevelopment proposal, an ongoing project in partnership with Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group (OSEG), has undergone significant changes – and critics aren’t happy. City staff have been working with OSEG since June 2022 when the Lansdowne Partnership Sustainability Plan and Implementation Report was approved at council, and the proposed plan has gone through ongoing public consultation this year as well.

Sep 22, 2023 | thefulcrum.ca | Shailee Shah

Reading Time: 2 minutes“CALL PROTECTION NOW, THE B*TCHY ONE IS GONE.”Protection was called on University of Ottawa students protesting RBC on campus during 101 Week. Organized promptly by advocacy commissioner for the University of Ottawa Students’ Union (UOSU) Maisy Elspeth after witnessing an RBC stand at the U of O’s clubs fair, the protest was made up of roughly five students.