Denis Rancourt - Other Campus Activities

Other Campus Activities

Rancourt has pursued other activities on campus, including a film series and the Five O'Clock Train radio program on CHUO-FM. Rancourt was the videographer for ACTivist Magazine's No Code short film documenting the riotous opposition to the Code on campus.

Rancourt hosted a film series, Cinema Politica, since 2005 until the university stopped providing space for the event in 2008. In the previous year, a deaf student had filed a human rights complaint against the University of Ottawa for refusing to pay the cost of sign language interpretation during Cinema Politica events, although these events are not sponsored by the University or part of any curriculum. Rancourt has contested this position and appeared before the Ontario Human Rights Commission in September 2008 to make his case that Cinema Politica should be recognized as part of his official workload. Rancourt continues to host the Cinema Politica event, renamed Cinema Academica, with the aid of another professor who books the room for him. While holding this event on January 23, 2009, Rancourt was arrested and issued a trespassing ticket for being on school grounds.