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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," as the chant went.

The curatorial statement for META, the graduating exhibition from Ryerson’s New Media students, makes some bold claims. “Through an exploration of ideas concerning the environment, the economy, family, scientific matter and even love, we have created stepping-stones into the future of art. We have changed the media, charged it with interactivity, and balanced innovation with the notion of conceptual beauty and artistic vision.”

At a party on Tuesday at the Cadillac Lounge, Ryerson University's senior magazine journalism students crawled out of the incubator and onto two feet. As the cover band the Neil Young'uns played in the background, the two freshly pressed issues of the Ryerson Review of Journalism proved that the students are more than the writing world's young'uns. The graduating-year publication takes on some of Toronto and the world's biggest media forces, with mixed assessments. Morgan Passi profiles Toronto Life EIC newbie Sarah Fulford, both criticizing and praising her after the controversial "The Immigrant Experience" issue. The writer's stories mirror the resilience, failure, depression, and optimism that are behind every printed word published nowadays. Greg Harris takes a look at the dying art of the tabloid headline by profiling the Toronto Sun’s Lew Fournier (who confesses his best ideas come while staring at the blank wall behind a urinal). The student journos are occasionally critical of their brothers in arms, but more often stand in unity with them. By making the conflict between the owners of the Air Canada Centre and the press who frequent it look like the greatest rivalry in the NHL, Andrew Wallace highlights a major press freedom issue.

Toronto's extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn't always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city.

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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 co-presenter of this exhibit.

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.

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 out—we proffered a qualified endorsement, believing that the goal of discouraging future car ownership was sufficiently noble for us to be able to overlook the scheme's inherent unfairness. But we later recanted "after reading all of the comments here and on the Spacing Wire....and after seeing that even Adam CF doesn't yet endorse it for St. George, AND after finding out that the passes won't be swipeable."

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.

Photo by Jordan Roberts from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

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?

Image: Cicada Design/Diamond + Schmitt Architects

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.