Jack FisherThe Ontario Provincial government’s response to the pandemic is shameful.Businesses will close, people will be evicted, people will die, and none of it had to happen. This is from a government that has ignored experts since it took power. It...
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...
Merilee Fullerton, Ontario minister of long-term care, announced Tuesday that Ontario would begin a review of the long-term care system set to start in September. “Over the next several months, our government will be finalizing details of the...
Children who are infected by COVID-19 could be at risk of a rare inflammatory illness. Ontario Minister of Health, Christine Elliot, issued a statement today about “multisystem inflammatory vasculitis,” a side effect of COVID-19 that has appeared in...
There’s an oft-cited statistic that humans are anywhere from 80% – 95% water. What seems inescapable is that water is an incredibly important part of daily life. People die when they cannot access it. Much of the surface of our planet is covered in...
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...
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...
A personal experience. In the summer of 2018, a small group of students at the University of Guelph had the opportunity to meet with the top three candidates for the new Vice-Provost – Student Affairs. I was one of about ten students who...
IGNITE expected to shift governance structure on Wednesday Image from The Avro Post WHAT’S GOING ON? On Wednesday January 20th, the student union that represents both Humber College and University of Guelph-Humber students is holding a General...
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...
