I believe I can speak for everyone who has signed this petition and offer our condolences to the family and friends of an unnamed University of Toronto, St George, student whose life was reportedly lost this past weekend, March 17, 2019. We share your pain.
Those of you in Ontario can find information on this facebook page, and possibly others, concerning student organized gatherings on campus.:
https://www.facebook.com/events/347109226012524/?active_tab=discussion
Limited information is in this article (thanks to a friend who brought it to my attention):
It follows a nearly identical incident at the same location in July 2018:
To university president Meric Gertler, I have a personal message. Since my partner's death in November 2017, you have chosen to protect staff and faculty who were involved, rather than sending a clear message that your students deserve better. Your response is a failure, and it continues to endanger the lives of students. I personally wrote to you in August 2018 about Lisa's death, and was ignored. Gertler, it's long past time to clean up the university you head. If you won't do it, you need to step aside for someone who will. Your students are demanding action.
To University of Toronto staff following this petition who have information that would be in the interest of survivors or the public to know, you need to do the right thing and come forward.
To the many journalists and editors I have contacted who refuse to report these deaths, you are part of the problem. How many other student deaths, on and off campus, and how many problems that led to them, have you helped to cover up over the years?
Regarding the petition for Lisa, to each of you from Canada, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, who have signed, shared, and helped to promote our petition for nearly a year now, and reached out with stories of your own and messages of support, I thank you. You are all friends. Despite my silence since the petition's launch, I continue to undertake efforts that would not be appropriate to comment on publicly. Each signature is a voice of support for justice, and our message is being seen and heard in places where I can only hope it matters; time will tell. I will provide further updates when I can, but I've learned that the failures that culminated in Lisa's death, and others since, will not be addressed overnight.
These deaths, and students who have fallen through the cracks or had their lives seriously impacted, whether at the University of Toronto or other universities, need to be documented. Anyone reading this with experiences of your own, or of a loved one, I invite you to speak out. Take whatever precautions are necessary if you're still a student, but if journalists won't talk with you, start a petition, or set up a free Blogger account - and get in touch with others dealing with these situations when you find them, because you are not alone, and there's strength in numbers.
Thank you.