Jack FisherThe 2018 Ontario election was three years ago yesterday. It was a busy day for me, I accomplished a lot, and there were small victories, but I still have one regret. I constantly wish I had berated the group of old conservative football dads who...
I'm angry and out of hope, but I know we can't forget what has been done as we move into this third lockdown in Ontario.
“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...
The 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...
