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VUSAC revises constitution, removing co-presidency

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 vice-presidents, instead of splitting work […]

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U of T’s Jackman Humanities Institute’s first Indigenous Faculty Scholar links truth and reconciliation via beading and artwork

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 Studies at the University of

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Toronto’s Take on the Women’s March on Washington

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 rhetoric of newly inaugurated President Trump to their

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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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Pass the sugar, please

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 partner with material or monetary

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UTSU wants out of CFS

On Tuesday January 24th, 2017, the University of Toronto Student Union (UTSU) issued a statement outlining how UTSU executives no longer support membership to the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS). With grievances listed, UTSU says membership to the CFS “is something that [UTSU]…can no longer support.” UTSU states how the 14 motions presented at the

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