Snappy Answers runs every Saturday afternoon, except when Ms. Snappy Answers is in New York City, as she was last weekend—sorry! Send your questions, be they tough or trivial, to snappyanswers@torontoist.com. I want to work on getting in shape this summer, and that means signing up for a gym. Any recommendations for a good gym in Toronto? Something not too intimidating to us common folk would be nice. —Kyle......

Is invisibility a type of discrimination? This is the question posed by the ROM's latest exhibit Out From Under: Disability, History and Things to Remember. Billed, shockingly, as the "first of its kind in Canada," it's clear that disabled people as a minority group have not had their voice properly heard thus far. "Today, we're making history," said Sheldon Levy, president of Ryerson University, Wednesday at the ROM. Their School of Disability Studies is the......

A group of Ryerson Radio and Television Arts students have turned what was supposed to be a by-the-numbers school project into a charitable event supporting the Regent Park School of Music, a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching music to kids in the area. Fourth-year students Aaron Zorgel and Jeremy Mersereau (of Great Lenin's Ghost fame) took their project idea, a collaborative ten-song album called Student Lounge, and decided to donate the proceeds. Though most......

Last week, undergraduate students at UTSC (University of Toronto Scarborough) rejected the U-Pass by a stunning margin, with full-time students voting against it 1674 to 622, and part-time students spurning it 53 to 16. Minus the abstentions and spoiled ballots, that worked out to 73% No for for full-timers and 77% No for part-timers. When last we wrote about the proposed offer—a compulsory $60-a-month transit pass for all students, with no potential to opt......

This Thursday, Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts unveils its third annual showcase of work by the graduating students of its New Media program. This year's STÆTIM New Media Festival, which features 35 projects that use computer technology to create “interactive and immersive experiences,” includes Jordy Lucier’s “Soft Corps,” which uses felt weapons to underline the entertainment industry’s role in distorting our attitudes towards real violence. Other interesting projects include Ross Lavery and Tyler Robb’s......

Photo by Jordan Roberts from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. If you haven’t been living in a pothole the last few weeks, you’ve probably heard at least a passing mention of Chris Avenir, the Ryerson University student accused of cheating through Facebook. On March 19th, word came down from the presiding disciplinary panel at Ryerson that Avenir would not face the academic guillotine over his Facebook study group. A first-year engineering student, Avenir had put......

City sells "the McDonald's site" on Bloor for a fairly low price. However, Adam Vaughan insists there are upsides to the deal, such as being able to limit the height of the condo development that will take its place, because who would want tall buildings in the downtown core? Patrick Swayze has pancreatic cancer. Although initial reports that he has "weeks to live" were apparently false, pancreatic cancer is still one of the deadliest......

Image: Cicada Design/Diamond + Schmitt Architects If you seem to be noticing Ryerson everywhere these days, you're not imagining it. Though it's been around since 1948 and been granting degrees since 1971, it's only during the last few years that the university has embarked on a massive expansion plan and branding campaign, drastically raising its physical and academic profile. Devoid of any real charm for decades (save for the 1852 partial façade of the......

It is, right now, just after midnight. It is very, very, very cold outside. And Ryerson's Engineering Student Society is currently in the thirteenth hour of shoving a Volkswagen Beetle around their quad, with more than ten very, very cold hours left to go. Why would anyone sacrifice their warmth in -15° weather? This time around, the same zany kids who dye their bodies purple for fun (and engineering pride) are doing some crazy......

Behold what might eventually become of Sniderman's Corner: an attractive first rendering of the Ryerson Student Learning Centre. To be built at Yonge and Gould on the former sites of Sam The Record Man and the freshly-vacated Future Shop, the building represents Ryerson's desperately coveted access to the Yonge Street strip. To be designed by critical darlings KPMB Architects and Daoust Lestage, the institutionally glassy building will incorporate the historically designated Sam's marquee, which......