John FisherAs the days inside grow long, and the weather gets warmer, people are wishing life would return to normal. President Donald Trump apparently feels the same way and he has been suggesting medical solutions to the COVID-19 virus during White House...
The RSU front desk is closed after dark. Jack Fisher/Sheridan Sun Imagine if half of all elected officials in the government resigned on the same day. Imagine how wayward that would make our political landscape. We would be looking at half-baked...
Jack Fisher – Sheridan Sun It’s not like the movies, but it might be soon. The State of New York has implemented the east coast’s first ‘containment zone.’ New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo announced today that the state would be limiting large public...
What is happening at Ryerson is an absolute tragedy. To unpack the conundrum, the first question to ask is “why do student unions matter”? For many people outside the echo chamber of academia, student unions are no more than a slightly older version...
The Iowa caucuses turned into a political quagmire, with many results unable to be counted, or counted accurately, marking a messy start for the Democrats seeking to unseat Donald Trump as President. The Iowa Caucus took place on Monday, Feb 3 2020...
IGNITE expected to shift governance structure on Wednesday Image provided by The Avro Post WHAT’S GOING ON? On Wednesday January 20th, the student union that represents both Humber College and University of Guelph-Humber students is holding a...
Image from Global News Article Originally published on Defunct Mayhem It has only been 10 days since the Ukrainian Airlines plane was shot down in Iran. It seems like it has been so much longer. The global response was quick, and Canada’s response...
Photo by Eli Ridder/The Avro Post On Nov. 21, the Ontario Divisional Court deemed the Ford government’s Student Choice Initiative unlawful and the reaction has varied from sending the optional fees website offline to waiting on the...
UPDATE November 22nd: The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) and York Federation of Students (YFS) held a joint press conference in the Queen’s Park press room – sponsored by NDP MPP Chris Glover – to discuss the legal win...
In his 1905 philosophical anthology The Life of Reason, Vol 1: Reason In Common Sense, George Santayana said “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Today we are living in a time of seemingly unprecedented vacuousness coming...
By: Jack Fisher It is 2019. nineteen years after the Y2K virus was going to decimate our computers, eighteen years after 9/11, thirty-four years after the release of the first MacIntosh computer, and thirty years after Back to the Future II was...