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By Stephanie Cesca Ryerson’s teaching assistants are beginning efforts to unionize this week, but their attempts to organize are facing a major obstacle — disorganization. It’s been difficult finding TAs at Ryerson because nobody on campus represents them,said Derek Blackadder, a Canadian Union of Public Employees representative organizing the TA’s union campaign. CUPE representatives are […]

New campus group provides forum for Ryerson's young investors

Students raise more than $1,000 for programs to help the needy after a night under the stars

By Adam Button A group of heckling students — most from Ryerson — were thrown out of the provincial legislature as politicians debated during the second reading of a proposed bill that could see for-profit private universities operating in Ontario by September. Last Wednesday was the first of two days of heated debate about Bill […]

By The Eyeopener Team A new poll suggests four out of five Canadians think the next federal government should create a national grant program for postsecondary students, the Canadian Federation of Students announced Tuesday. The study, commissioned by Ipsos-Reid for the national student organization, asked 1,500 Canadians if they would “support the federal government introducing […]