Month: March 2017

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Ryerson event focuses on resisting Trump’s agenda against minority groups

Attendees were reminded of Stephen Harper’s proposal to ban niqabs and Kelly Leitch’s plan to implement a Canadian values screening test for immigrants

Daniel Petrosov

Business & Technology

Students share the realities of their part-time jobs

The Ontario government will soon receive recommendations for updating its labour laws. We talked to students about some of the proposed reforms

Rye speaker series discusses creating accessible communities

"We didn’t just want to show that it [mobility] can be difficult, we wanted to show the joy of experiencing access when you expect not to have it"

Multimedia Sports Video

[Video] Men’s basketball: Rams edge Saint Mary’s in U Sports quarter-final, advance to semis

The Rams will face either Alberta or Dalhousie in the semi-final game this Saturday

Rye student ditches fear of missing out in his new book of poetry

Guitarist for the Toronto Hardcore band Mil-spec, Darrah found structural limits when it came to writing music, but did not find the same limits within poetry writing

Men’s basketball: Rams open national tournament with golden expectations

The Rams have been here before. They’ve felt the sting of loss and aren’t trying to feel it again

Rye grad’s art to be featured in Toronto Comics Anthology

Caddy is the story of two Scarborough boys trying to steal a Cadillac as a ritualistic step to get into a gang. The comic explores their relationship, as one character is in love with the other

Sam the Record Man sign installation begins this spring

Coming soon to a Public Health Building near you

Features Student Politics

The young and the clueless: the eternal turmoil of the RSU

In a book about the history of student initiatives at Ryerson, history professor Ronald Stagg wrote that at time, the nasty politics “inhabited the student union’s ability to act”

Your student union is no longer united. ILLUSTRATION: Alannah Astorquiza

“Boys’ club” holds power in RSU, union executives say

Executives of the Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU) have made accusations of sexism against other members of the executive team, resulting in a gender split inhibiting the union’s efficiency

A photo so self-explanatory it doesn’t really need a caption. PHOTO Keith Capstick

Editorial Opinion

Our news editor on watching the RSU self-destruct from the sidelines

Reporting on student politics is more interesting than I expected it to be. It’s essentially a soap opera with too many seasons, and I get to play Big Brother

Lecturer’s controversial comments get complaints from students

He also made a public comment in October 2016 about former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton: “She should be hanged by the neck until dead"

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