The Good Food Centre (GFC) is providing more fresh food to the community after receiving stable funding this term. The GFC and the Sexual Assault Survivor Support Line (SASSL) held a successful campaign last November to address the lack of resources needed to tackle food insecurity. Students voted in support of the referendum to contribute $5 in the fall and winter semesters, to be divided equally between the centres.
Food & Health
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When Karolina Surowiec, the RSU vice-president of equity, was campaigning last year, one thing that she and other Ryerson students found to be a problem on campus was the lack of affordable food. An RSU survey done last year, which polled 1,000 students, found a majority felt the cost of food was a problem. To change this, Surowiec came up with the idea of a $5 supplementary menu at the Ram in The Rye.
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Around 70 per cent of Ryerson students find healthy on-campus food unaffordable, says Merryn Maynard from Meal Exchange. That figure is from a survey conducted in the spring and summer of 2017, and is part of a Campus Food Report Card that will be released in the coming months.
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Thanks to Ryerson’s Good Food Centre (GFC), students are now able to receive free breakfast at the Student Campus Centre (SCC) every other Wednesday morning. The program, which officially launched…
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With the new Ontario Health Insurance Plan Plus (OHIP+) program, Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU) doesn’t intend on making any changes to its current health/dental plan. As of Jan. 1, 2018,…