NEWS & POLITICS

What position are you running for, and what are the responsibilities of this position? I’m running to be VUSAC’s Vice-President Internal for next year! The role of VPI is to take care of internal relations, operations, and policy to make sure that the council is functioning the best that it ...

What position are you running for, and what are the responsibilities of this position? The position I am running for is Academic Commissioner. As Academic Commissioner I play an important role, ensuring students voices are heard and they are offered the support they need to succeed within the academic and ...

What position are you running for, and what are the responsibilities of this position?  I am running as a Victoria Director on the University of Toronto’s Students’ Union Board of Directors. The UTSU advocates and provides services for full-time undergraduate students at the St. George campus. Directors debate, refine, and vote ...

What position are you running for, and what are the responsibilities of this position? I am running for Mental Wellness Commissioner. The position is meant to advocate for the betterment of mental health services at Vic and to run programming on the topic of mental wellness. Can you summarize the ...

Facing growing backlash, the Computer Science Department has decided to revise acceptance criteria for first-year students

In conversation with UofT students

What does the Presidential & Provostial Task Force on Student Mental Health final report mean for UMLAP?

A paywall for grades or a digitized learning service?  It’s an all-too-familiar scene for some: enrolling in a half-year course and looking at the syllabus only to realize the course requires a mandatory subscription to a third-party learning service, constituting 25 percent of the grade. These mandatory third-party services, also known as “microtransactions,” are a common ...

UofT rolls out MySSP for all students Content warning: mentions of suicide.  When it comes to mental health support, the University of Toronto doesn’t exactly have the best track record. However, after three deaths by suicide on the St. George campus in the last two years alone, students are finally saying enough is enough, and demanding that the university do better.   In 2019, UofT responded with a ...

The Victoria University Students’ Administrative Council (VUSAC) held a jam-packed meeting on Friday, January 17 to kick off the winter semester. As it was their first meeting of the semester, the agenda comprised of a wide range of action items, discussion items, and reports. Here are a few highlights:  Women of the ...