The Ryerson School of Image Arts building was lit up red this week to bring awareness to the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, transgender and two-spirit people as part of a project headed by eight Ryerson students. The red lights, which reacted to real-time Twitter engagement and reflected in Lake Devo Monday,…
Fantastic Beasts: Find them in Yonge-Dundas Square
Toronto Harry Potter fans attended a two-day promotional event this week for the new spinoff film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them at Yonge-Dundas Square. The film will be in theatres Nov. 18, 2016. Tuesday night featured a red carpet event for the film in the square. Fantastic Beasts star Eddie Redmayne, who plays…
War journalists need more mental health help, says University of Toronto professor
War journalists around the world are not having their mental health taken seriously by their employers, Dr. Anthony Feinstein, a University of Toronto professor of psychiatry, said at a discussion at Ryerson University Wednesday. Feinstein, also a successful author and documentary filmmaker, has spent over a decade studying and surveying war journalists and has found…
New Ryerson mental health program encourages students to "thrive"
Ryerson Student Affairs has created a new student program aimed at mental health awareness with a focus on prevention rather than intervention. The six-week-old ThriveRU initiative emphasizes “thriving on campus” and “proactive mental health promotion,” said Dr. Diana Brecher, head of the new program and current Scholar-in-Residence for positive psychology, during a press conference at…