86% of menstruators have reported starting their period in public without access to the menstrual products that they need to function throughout the day. Additionally, one third of all Canadian menstruators under the age of 25 experience period poverty and struggle to afford menstrual products. This was what led us to create free the […]
Last week on March 23rd, the Ontario Undergraduate Students’ Alliance issued a statement in response to the Ontario Provincial Government’s release of the 2022-2023 Tuition Freeze, which can be read here: https://www.ousa.ca/pr_freeze_2022.“Although we are pleased that domestic tuition will not be increased this coming year, we are worried there is still not enough support for […]
By Amina Khan This past February, The University Students’ Council (USC) announced that it will be divesting. But many students wonder what divestment is and why they should care. I had the chance to speak with Zamir Fakirani, current President of the USC, about this decision. What is divestment? In order to divest, the USC is no longer […]
By: Anushka Goswami By actively engaging in advocacy initiatives and with the help of student voices, the University Student Councils’ Vice President External Affairs and Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance’s President, Eunice Oladejo, ran a campaign to advocate for stop OSAP Clawbacks from the provincial government and successfully brought LTC buses back to campus. Ontario […]