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Activity and nutrition for the busy student
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Having trouble focusing on online schoolwork, or can’t stop yourself from checking the fridge just one more time? Associate professor of kinesiology and physical education, Tom Hazell offers some insight into how these behaviours can be changed. With full-time Zoom classes and the second wave of COVID-19 looming, students have been placed in a unique…
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Effects from the minimum wage increase are slowly materializing
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With the provincial election quickly approaching, current Premier of Ontario, Kathleen Wynne, has made a series of desperate attempts to win over voters – lowering hydro costs, OHIP+, improving the Ontario Student Assistance Program and majorly increasing the minimum wage. In theory, a high minimum wage that allows workers to provide for themselves and their…
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UPDATED: Controversy on campus: a comprehensive timeline
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Nov. 1 – Lindsay Shepherd plays a clip from TVO’s The Agenda, which showcases a debate featuring controversial University of Toronto professor, Jordan Peterson, discussing “genders, rights and freedom speech.” Ensuing the clip was a class debate surrounding the use of they as a pronoun. The class she showed it in was a first year…
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Student groups create collaborative report to enhance student mental health
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A collaborative report, In It Together: Taking Action on Student Mental Health, was recently released as a call to the Province for greater action regarding the challenges and difficulties pertaining to mental health which continues to increase among students in Ontario. The report was compiled by four partners: the College Student Alliance, the Ontario Undergraduate…
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