Jack Fisher“Let’s live in the real world here,” is what Justice Huscroft of the Ontario Court of Appeals said to lawyers representing the Government of Ontario in Tuesday’s hearing regarding the Student Choice Initiative. The province’s legal...
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...
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...
Originally published in The Avro Post. On Nov. 21, the Ontario Divisional Court deemed the Ford government’s Student Choice Initiative unlawful and the reaction has varied from sending the optional fees website offline to waiting on the Ford...
UPDATE November 22nd:The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) and York Federation of Students (YFS) held a joint press conference in the Queen’s Park press room – sponsored by NDP MPP Chris Glover – to discuss the legal win against the province of...
There is a lot happening in Ontario right now. Services that thousands of people use are being cut. Structures of support are being torn down in healthcare. Education is being stripped in so many ways. I’m frustrated, as I know many are, but I’ve...
[Originally read aloud to the CSA Board of Directors] Surely at this point in the news cycle, you’ve seen the acronym “OSAP” cross your newsfeed at least once. Maybe you’ve seen the headline exclaiming that the province of Ontario is decreasing post...
