Ryerson should be at the top of the Maclean’s magazine ranking, not number 11, Ryerson president Sheldon Levy told RyersOnline on Monday.

Ryerson needs to help its students start their own projects, businesses and initiatives says Liberal Gerard Kennedy.

And he's looking at creating new courses or even a new program at Ryerson to help teach them.

Last Friday, Mark Poland attended a special Remembrance Day ceremony at Queen’s Park. Premier Dalton McGuinty presented plaques to the families of nine soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

In April, Mark’s brother, Ryerson Image Arts alumni Cpl. Brent Poland was killed along with five other Canadian soldiers when a bomb exploded beside their light-armoured personnel carrier in the Maywand district just outside Kandahar.

Seven months later, RyersOnline talked with Mark about the path that led his brother from Ryerson to Afghanistan.

For many Canadians Remembrance Day conjures up images of veterans fighting in battlesmany decades ago in places such as France, Italy and Korea.

But this year, for some Ryerson community members, images of a man in his 30’s, who gave up the chance to live a comfortable life, to serve as an enlisted Canadian soldier, in the deserts of the modern-day battlefield of Afghanistan will flood their thoughts.

A motion to create Ryerson Student Union board of director seats specifically for aboriginal and LBGTQ students was thwarted by a fire alarm on Wednesday night.

Ryerson will be having Remembrance Day ceremonies on Friday and Sunday to remember those who fought and died for Canada.

In what’s being billed as a “historic” vote, students at Ryerson will have a chance to vote on whether they want Ryerson Student’s Union board of director seats for students who are Aboriginal and LBGTQ.

For four years Mahjob Abdalla has been giving “the talk.”

The 39-year old man came  from Darfur in 1995 as a refugee.

His talks, based on conversations he's had with sources in Darfur are about tales of murder, genocide and rape.

Ryerson doesn’t have enough science programs and is looking at creating more, Ryerson president Sheldon Levy told RyersOnline.