On Monday, city council will vote on a series of measures from the Toronto and East York Community Council, including a motion to permanently create two pedestrian-only areas at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto. The vote marks the final step in a project that has been, in Ryerson’s case, more than ten years [...]

Sports coverage tends to focus on major league teams, but every day in Toronto people make fun (and sometimes wacky) activities an important part of their lives. Sporting Goods looks at some of these. It’s been a big year for Harry Potter: The final movie in the series came out (Hollywood’s most successful franchise ever). [...]

On a tabletop in the corner of Ryerson’s Digital Media Zone sits an odd-looking chair. It’s made of layers of carved and painted cardboard, and Ryerson University professor Jason Nolan points to it with pride. “This is the very first piece of social technology we built. That is a chair for a child named Zoe [...]

In today's Urban Planner: short films galore by Kazik Radwanski and Antoine Bourges, a conversation with James Frey, a posthumous tribute to author and poet Daniel Jones, and a performance by the Barr Brothers.

MDFF filmmakers Kazik Radwanski (left) and Dan Montgomery (right). Last week, when we previewed the 2011 Ryerson University Film Festival, we tried to frame the whole thing around the idea that student films, and student film festivals, are launching pads for emerging talent—a place where filmmakers can showcase the experimental, personal, and defiantly independent work [...]

Faux–lobby card for the faux-trailer for Van Gore. In plenty of ways, Jason Eisener’s Hobo With A Shotgun is the most remarkable Canadian feature to come down the pike in years, maybe since Mike Dowse’s mockumentary FUBAR became a surprise cult hit in 2002. Like Dowse’s film, Hobo jettisons the high-minded artfulness or parochial localisms [...]

CKLN’s website, as of this evening. Ryerson-based (but not Ryerson-run) campus-community radio station CKLN, 88.1 FM, has been granted a stay on the CRTC’s recent decision to revoke its broadcasting license, meaning the station will remain on the air until a federal judge can determine whether or not CKLN has grounds to appeal the CRTC’s [...]

A screen capture of CKLN’s website as of 3 p.m. today. Today the CRTC revoked the broadcasting license of radio station CKLN—an independent community-run radio station located in Ryerson University’s campus (and largely funded by its student union) but not officially affiliated with that institution—citing the station’s failure to comply with federal broadcasting regulations for [...]

If you’ve ever pulled an all-nighter to finish an assignment, you can stop patting yourself on the back, slacker, because a group of fourth-year Ryerson students put all your cut-and-paste efforts to shame with the final project in their Radio and Television Arts degree. Third Floor Sessions is a series of ambitious music and multimedia [...]

Enduring bouts of rain and hail, about a thousand students, workers, and community members marched through downtown Toronto yesterday as part of the Drop Fees for a Poverty Free Ontario campaign. At 4 p.m., they arrived at Queen’s Park to demand that the provincial government start “investing in the people, ’cause we are the solution,” [...]