The University of Guelph’s Central Student Association has launched a campaign with the International Student Organization to reverse the student tuition increases for foreign learners approved in April. The tuition increase at the U of G...
This article is a transcription of the live-twitter-thread from the University of Guelph Board of Governors meeting on April 22 2020.
We need to talk. Before the pandemic started, one of the biggest news stories was the pipeline protesters on the Wet’suwet’en territory in B.C. At the University of Guelph, a group of students who have been advocating for fossil fuel divestment for...
COVID-19 has changed society as we know it. Most students in Canada have returned home and, for the most part, on-campus staff have been instructed to social distance. Institutions and operations that tend to be predictable and normal are now...
As the days inside grow long, and the weather gets warmer, people are wishing life would return to normal. President Donald Trump apparently feels the same way and he has been suggesting medical solutions to the COVID-19 virus during White House...
Student politics has always been riddled with symbolic activism. At the University of Guelph on Mar. 4 during a job fair, the Central Student Association’s (CSA) VP External Horeen Hassan delivered a letter to RCMP and Canadian Armed...
Imagine if half of all elected officials in the government resigned on the same day. Imagine how wayward that would make our political landscape. We would be looking at half-baked campaigns for weeks as parties scrambled to field enough candidates...
It’s not like the movies, but it might be soon. The State of New York has implemented the east coast’s first ‘containment zone.’ New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo announced today that the state would be limiting large public gatherings in...
What is happening at Ryerson is an absolute tragedy. To unpack the conundrum, the first question to ask is “why do student unions matter”? For many people outside the echo chamber of academia, student unions are no more than a slightly older version...
The Iowa caucuses turned into a political quagmire, with many results unable to be counted, or counted accurately, marking a messy start for the Democrats seeking to unseat Donald Trump as President. The Iowa Caucus took place on Monday, Feb 3 2020...