Author name: Samantha Santoro

Shrinking shelter spaces and city funding spark rally in city’s core

OCAP and supporters gather to protest lack of shelter space for homeless populations during winter months   On December 15th, 2016, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty OCAP hosted the event “Rally and March to Open Shelter Space Now,” where about 100 Torontonians gathered around a city-owned building at Dundas and Victoria with posters protesting the lack of adequate space and resources in homeless shelters around

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UofT welcomes the new year

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] A recap of events in 2016 and initiatives moving forward into 2017 As 2016 comes to a much-anticipated conclusion, the University of Toronto and its students have begun to deliberate the advent of , 2017. There is a consistent emphasis placed on the political and

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“CLIMATE LEADERS DON’T BUILD PIPELINES”: The cry of 200 young environmental activists heard throughout the nation

Amanda Harvey-Sanchez, an Environmental Studies, Social-Cultural Anthropology, and Equity Studies student at the University of Toronto, was arrested for civil disobedience on October 24th, along with 98 other young environmental activists. They were protesting the potential expansion of the Kinder-Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline. Growing up in a household that regarded the environment with the utmost

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Dispute between Victoria University and GE Canada Real Estate Equity

The current legal dispute between Victoria University and GE Canada Real Estate Equity is regarding the university-owned land currently occupied by the Colonnade building on Bloor Street West. The appeal by Victoria University involves the meaning of the “fair market value of the demised lands,” referring to the land on Bloor Street West. Victoria University

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