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Office hours change based on volunteer/staff availability, for current hours plz email us or refer to the handouts by our door!

OPIRG is a volunteer-based group at U of T with a mandate for action, education, & research on environmental & social justice! Please note, our ofice hours change based on volunteer and staff availability, for current office hours please email us or refer to the handouts by our door! The Ontario Public Interest Research Group is a volunteer-based group at the University of Toronto, with a mandate for action, education, and research on environmental and social justice issues. We are part of an international network of Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), including eleven others in Ontario. We are an anti-oppressive and intersectional feminist organization directed by Undergrad and Grad students at UofT. We seek to empower and educate students and other members of the community, provide a forum for learning and sharing skills, and give people the tools and opportunity to work cooperatively for social change. We do this by providing workshops, publishing opportunities, social and environmental justice advocacy and educational based events such as panels and round tables, research opportunities and through action groups

10/02/2026

BREAKING: Students disrupt Zionist colloquium at UofT's Department of Physics!

On Oct 1st, the UofT Department of Physics hosted a speaker from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for its weekly colloquium event. HUJI directly and actively enables the genocide in Palestine - it operates a campus on settlements that are illegally occupied under international law, fundraises for IOF soldiers committing war crimes in Gaza, and works with the Zionist police to surveill and annex Palestinian neighborhoods. By maintaining partnerships with HUJI, UofT is complicit in genocide.
We as students cannot allow this partnership to continue!

We call on all students and alumni of conscience in the Department of Physics, and the University of Toronto at large, to demand their institution to cut all ties with HUJI. Disrupt Zionism with every chance you get and with all the leverage you possess. Long live the student intifada. Free free Palestine!

09/30/2026

For our next zine reading, join us on Wednesday, October 7th from 2:30-5:00 PM to read and discuss "Exiting Law and Entering Revolution" by Palestinian martyr Basel al-Araj (trans. Bassem Saad). No registration is required, and a free vegetarian lunch will be provided.

🗓️ October 7th, 2:30-5 PM
📍Room #318, UTSU Student Commons, 230 College Street

09/28/2026

🔔 Tomorrow! Scenes from the upcoming documentary RENT STRIKE will be screened at Sidney Smith Hall! Tenants across the city are fighting back against their landlords, and winning! Come enjoy dinner and hear from Toronto Tenant Union organizers about how they’re doing it.

🗓️ September 29th, 5:30-8:30pm
📍 Sidney Smith Hall Rm #1086 - 100 St. George Street

Free to attend & no registration is required!

09/18/2026

Join us on Wednesday, September 23rd to read ‘Counterinsurgency: Dousing the Flames of Minneapolis - Lessons from the George Floyd Uprising’, reflect on what we can learn from the 2020 murder of George Floyd, and the subsequent uprising, and discuss how to apply these lessons in the struggles to come.
🗓️ September 23rd, 6-8 PM
📍 #318, UTSU Student Commons, 230 College Street

No registration required & a free vegetarian meal will be provided!

09/15/2026

Announcing the 2026 Tsí Tkarón:to Anarchist Bookfair: a gathering place for anarchists and friends to come together, share ideas, build relationships, and rekindle the spirit of anarchy in so-called Toronto! Join us on October 17th at United Steelworkers Hall to explore anti-authoritarian literature, make friends, learn new skills, and take part in the effort to build a diverse anarchist ecosystem that can resist and replace the monocultures of capitalism and colonialism imposed upon this land. There is a place here for everyone who stands against domination—from anarcho-curious teens just starting to get involved, to those who have carried the black flag for decades, to non-anarchist fellow travelers who align with our principles. We need all of us.

This event is supported but not organized by OPIRG Toronto.

📣❗️Reminder: wear a mask; don’t photograph, film, or record anyone without explicit consent, and leave smart glasses/any similar technologies at home. We share a responsibility to keep ourselves and our communities safe, including from surveillance and infectious diseases. Free KN95/N95 masks will be provided.

09/14/2026

Tenants across the city are fighting back against their landlords, and winning! Come enjoy dinner and hear from Toronto Tenant Union organizers about how they’re doing it. Followed by a screening of scenes from a documentary on a powerful tenant organizing story: armed with community and courage, a diverse group of Toronto tenants take on powerful corporate landlords in a historic rent strike, sparking a movement for housing justice across the city and beyond.
🗓️ September 29th, 5:30-8:30pm
📍TBA
No registration required!

09/12/2026

🌟Location announced!

'We All Have Plenty to Hide' is a workshop or refresher for any organizer or activist about operational security & security culture. Discuss and practise what security culture is and why we need it – and how we can go about it in ways that nurture trust and capability instead of exclusion. We will challenge ideas that are dangerous to movement spaces - such as ‘I have nothing to hide” - and explore the benefits of affinity group organizing and threat modelling.

5:30pm - Dinner
6:30pm - Workshop

📍Room #364, UTSU Student Commons, 230 College Street

This event is free & no registration is required!

09/11/2026

Interested in environmental justice and indigenous solidarity? New to activism? Never been to a protest? JOIN US! Demand justice for Grassy Narrows First Nation as they resist the ongoing ecological & humanitarian crisis of corporate mercury poisoning on their territory. In collaboration with Climate Justice UofT, meet us at the OPIRG office ( #318, 230 College Street, Toronto) to join the UofT contingent before the rally.

09/09/2026

September students can have the option to opt out of OPIRG Toronto's levy.
UTSU students may opt-out by using the following link https://www.utsu.ca/fees-budget-finances/ during the following two periods:

🍂Fall: September 8, 2026 – October 2, 2026
❄️Winter: January 6, 2027 – January 29, 2027

GSU students can opt out by contacting [email protected] between September 14th and October 2nd by requesting a reimbursement form and providing proof of active enrollment such as timetable or receipt of payment of fees.
We will have a second period of GSU opt outs between January 6th and 26th

09/08/2026

If we want to win, we must actively analyze and learn from the failures and successes of past struggles. Join us on Wednesday, September 9th to read ‘A Year in the Struggle: Five Lessons from the Popular Universities’, reflect on what we can learn from the 2024 Student Intifada, and discuss how to apply these lessons in the struggles to come.

📍 #318, UTSU Student Commons, 230 College Street
🗓️ September 9th, 6-8 PM

The zine reading and discussion will take place at the OPIRG office. A free vegetarian meal will be provided!

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230 College Street
Toronto, ON
M5T1R2

Website

http://www.opirgtoronto.org/

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