Last Saturday, more than 10,000 citizens crowded Yonge and Dundas Square[...]
UTMSU pays legal fees
On June 17, the UTM Student Union (UTMSU) made a donation of $1,000 to Angela Regnier, the executive director of the University of Toronto Students’ Union (UTSU). Reignier, who is not a student but full-time staff, was one of three protesters arrested on charges of mischief interference with property last month during a Tamil protest that occupied the Gardiner Expressway for six hours.
The motion to donate the money was approved at a UTMSU Board of Directors meeting following a written request from UTSU President Sandy Hudson. “We would ask that you donate today to support the constitutional rights of individuals to demonstrate peacefully and participate in civil disobedience,� wrote Hudson.
UTSU has started a legal fund for Regnier and is calling on student unions in the GTA to donate toward the legal fees. During the UTMSU Board of Directors meeting many questions were raised regarding this controversial motion, which had already been approved by the UTMSU executive committee but needed further approval…
St. George students face flat fees
A decision to introduce flat-rate tuition fees was approved by the University of Toronto Governing Council this past Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at the UTM campus. The controversial fee structure will apply to full-time arts and science students attending the University of Toronto’s St. George campus.
Beginning September 2011, students at St. George will be charged [...]
Protest solidarity
Wherever you go there seems to always be a protest of some sort. Most of you are aware, Im sure, of the fierce protests conducted outside the Israeli consulate on Bloor and Avenue. Bearing the same purpose as the vigil for the Mumbai victims in the CCIT building last month, the student union, along with [...]
UTM students protest Gaza humanitarian crisis
In freezing temperatures last Saturday afternoon, nearly 15,000 protesters turned out to protest the on-going humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip. The mob of protestors also included a large contingent of University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) students. Organized by the University of Toronto Mississauga Student Union (UTMSU), three buses brought supporters to the downtown protest [...]
Thousands gather downtown for Palestine
The corner of Avenue and Bloor was flooded as thousands of protesters braved the sub zero temperature to gather on Saturday afternoon and state their claim against Prime Minister Harper and President Bush for condoning Israel’s attacks on Gaza. Chanting ‘Fight the power, turn the Tide!/End Israeli Apartheid!’ and ‘Throw a shoe at israel too!’ [...]
City Centre Candle Light Vigil
Thursday night at Mississauga’s City Hall hundreds of people gathered together outside in the sub zero temperature to mourn and protest the West’s inaction against Israeli military strikes against Palestine. Protesters both young and old arrived with candles and chanted “This is what your democracy looks like.” When the subject of Mississauga’s Mayor Hazel McCallion came [...]
Protesters attempt to derail the Spirit Train
Written by Matthew Filipowich
Photography & Composite Editor
On October 13, the Canadian Pacific Spirit Train arrived at its third scheduled stop at the Cooksville Go-Station in Mississauga Ontario. The train, a ploy by the Olympic organizers to promote Vancouver 2010 Olympic spirit, will be stopping in cities across the country on its trans-Canada journey to Vancouver. [...]
