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The Strand sat down with UTSU slate, Demand Better’s Presidential Candidate, Mathias Memmel, to discuss the current reality and future of the UTSU. The Strand: Last year you wrote an article for The Varsity questioning whether the UTSU was worth saving and now you’re running for president. Can you elaborate ...

  Branding them as the outsider slate, the Reboot UofT campaign aims to give the UTSU back to UofT students through an aggressive decentralization of power. They hope to bring lasting change to the UTSU, by giving power back to clubs, students, and the broader UofT community. The Strand sat ...

During VUSAC’s meeting on January 20th, 2017, council discussed the rationale behind removing co-presidency and reinstating a single president. VUSAC co-president, Stuart Norton, explained that co-presidency was a reaction to the heavy workload. He stated that the solution to the problem should have been in reallocating the workload to the ...

VUSAC Equity hosts events to honour black community members

Refugees left in limbo by recent ban find hospitality in Canada

Photo | Chris Thomaidis Dr. Sherry Farrell Racette joins the University of Toronto faculty as the Jackman Humanities Institute’s first “Distinguished Visiting Indigenous Faculty scholar” and embarks on a journey to “link past and present Indigenous culture through beading.” Farrell Racette—an associate professor of Women & Gender Studies and Native ...

60,000 turn out for march in Toronto, 5 million worldwide On Saturday, January 21st, Toronto was one of the 34 cities across Canada who took part in the Women’s March. Many were clad in pink cat-eared hats, armed with cleverly worded signs. Protestors grouped in Queen’s Park before marching down the street. Many used the inflammatory ...

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 ...

Canadian university students take a non-traditional route towards paying off student debt Many college and university students in Canada are investing in relationships with sugar daddies to supplement the costs of rising tuition and living expenses. A sugar baby/daddy relationship is a consensual relationship between two adults where the sugar daddy often provides their ...

Masses gather on Toronto streets to demonstrate against Trump’s immigrant ban