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Extra, Extra: On-Campus Voting Drama and SlutWalk, Round Two
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- Encouraged by the response to this month’s SlutWalkTO, the event’s organizers have announced they plan to hold it again next year. In addition to the walk itself, organizers are planning a new website, an interactive blog, and branded merchandise to raise funds for SlutWalk activities.
- After the news earlier this week that Toronto is getting its own Lingerie Football team, reactions ranged from “woo hoo!” to general disgust at the objectification of the women playing for the league. For the women of the Toronto Roller Derby, the announcement, they say, hit particularly close to home after all the time they’ve spent proving themselves as skilled, tough-as-nails athletes.
- Today, the Conservatives asked Elections Canada to annul votes cast by students at the University of Guelph—a request that was denied. But four years ago it was complaints from former Liberal MP Tony Ianno that prompted Elections Canada to nix campus voting sites at U of T. The Varsity also uncovered some other election-related, on-campus funny business that year.
- If you need another reminder why young people are the future and keep us full of hope and all that, read about a group of first-year design engineers at U of T who came up with solutions to problems with Toronto’s infrastructure, including transit-stop signage and our oft-maligned garbage and recycling bins.
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