“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...
A racist social media post over the weekend has the University community talking about anti-Black racism right here at home. On Saturday, May 30, a pair of TikTok videos started circulating on social media showing a young white University of Guelph...
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...
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...
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...