Category: Communities

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Rye experts on Canada’s inmates access to communication, #LetsTalkBell

January 31, 2020

Bell Canada is facing criticism for their phone contract with Canadian prisons that limits prisoners’ communications with the outside world

The struggle to secure housing as a Black student

January 28, 2020

Fourth-year engineering student Denzel Edwards had just arrived at an apartment viewing with his girlfriend one year ago. When they reached the unit, the landlady told them the apartment was unavailable after taking one look at them

Finding fragments of home in foreign movies

January 28, 2020

There was always something I didn’t fully understand about myself. Growing up as a Mexican-Canadian third-culture kid, I felt an unshakeable sense of otherness

Communities Features

To cheat or not to cheat

January 21, 2020

Students who are stressed or overwhelmed may feel like cheating is their best chance at passing

Taking up space: who’s allowed in queer bars?

January 21, 2020

“There is a normalization of the idea of LGBT spaces as kind of a quirky, weird place for cis, straight people to go to have a party

Beyond the hospital: nursing in the community

January 21, 2020

The FOCUS placement program is teaching nursing students how they can go beyond traditional nursing interventions

Ryerson student crafts pouches for animals orphaned by Australia’s bushfires

January 18, 2020

A first-year Ryerson student is using “craftivism” to provide relief for the animals affected by the wildfires in Australia—by making pouches for joeys and wallabies.

Coffee cup with cancelled sign on it

Surviving university without coffee: can it be done?

January 15, 2020

Apparently it is possible to survive school WITHOUT caffeine?

picture of mouth with green teeth and dollar signs

Does Ryerson’s dental plan care enough?

January 14, 2020

Although Ryerson’s dental coverage includes the cost of basic dental maintenance, some students don’t feel it contributes enough to cover severe dental issues.

Nagin Khodayari

Navigating identity as a second generation Iranian-Canadian

January 14, 2020

As a child of immigrants, I’ve spent years trying to learn about where I’m from. I was born and raised here in Toronto. Almost every Saturday for 10 years, I sat in a Farsi school classroom studying Iranian literature, memorizing Hafez, indulging myself in my beautiful culture—and I love it.

Foodora and Uber workers are fighting for fair working conditions

November 27, 2019

Your Foodora or Uber Eats order may have only needed you to make a few clicks but for the couriers, the job includes dangerous conditions and unfair wages.

Challenging the lack of social justice teachings in nursing

November 27, 2019

Cathy Crowe said her memoir was written in response to a lack of social justice teachings in nursing.

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