Tag: utm

  • Entrepreneurs learn the key to good business at Conference

    Entrepreneurs learn the key to good business at Conference

    STORY BY ELISE MORTON PHOTOS BY ELISE MORTON With a 90 per cent failure rate, start-up businesses are a big challenge, students learned during the Young Entrepreneurs Conference at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) campus on Saturday, Jan. 24. “Everybody thinks they’re going to be successful at doing this, but the reality is that…

  • Student Union should stop saying ‘screw you’ to U-Pass

    Student Union should stop saying ‘screw you’ to U-Pass

    EDITORIAL BY JEANYLYN LOPEZ Oakville Transit director Barry Cole said he’s proposed that Sheridan get a U-Pass for seven years, but has been repeatedly turned down by the Student Union. The SU maintains students aren’t interested. Yet, in a recent survey conducted by the Sheridan Sun, 90 per cent of students said they want a…

  • Survey shows students wouldn’t pass up a U-Pass

    Survey shows students wouldn’t pass up a U-Pass

      STORY BY CATARINA MUIA Ninety per cent of Sheridan students who were recently surveyed say they are in favour of a transit discount pass. A survey of 466 students conducted last week by the Sheridan Sun discovered near unanimous support for a transit U-Pass. The survey was posted on various Sheridan-related Facebook groups for…

  • Mayoral candidates debate youth issues

    Mayoral candidates debate youth issues

    STORY & PHOTOS BY JEANYLYN LOPEZ Nine mayoral candidates took the stage at the University of Toronto, Mississauga Campus on Oct. 1 to debate youth initiatives in the city. Scott E.W. Chapman, Bonnie Crombie, Grant Isaac, Kevin Jackal Johnston, Masood Khan, Stephen King, Steve Mahoney, Derek Ramkissoon and Andrew Seitz spoke to an audience of…