TMSU

SEMI-ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2025

6:00 PM @ Toronto Metropolitan University Campus (Daphne Cockwell Complex, DCC, Room 204, 288 Church Street)

TMSU is holding a Semi-Annual General Meeting (SAGM) on Tuesday, December 2, 2025. This event will be in-person only and will be held at the downtown campus of Toronto Metropolitan University (DCC Room 204, 288 Church St.) from  6:00 PM.

Join us for some delicious catering options, coffee/tea beverages and giveaways!

Please RSVP using the registration link here to ensure that we can meet all dietary needs.

Accessibility

The Toronto Metropolitan Students’ Union strives to create accessible spaces for all our members. Members requiring accommodations (e.g., accessible seating, assistive listening devices, or other supports) are asked to contact Ashlee Verma, Equity & Campaigns Organizer at <equity@yourtmsu.ca> as soon as possible, and no later than Friday November 28. We will work with you to arrange appropriate accommodations.

Important Documents & Timelines

The Toronto Metropolitan Students’ Union (TMSU) is required to follow our By-laws and Policies in administering members meetings. 

Below are links to the By-laws, as well as general information on the operation of members meetings.

https://yourtmsu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/TMSU-Bylaws.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11rvR0wxvO22vdelwM_E1APCZ7-flnzma/view?usp=sharing

AGENDA + PROPOSED BY LAW AMENDMENTS + SAGM REPORT

The specific meeting agenda will be circulated to members and posted here no later than November 18, 2025 per By-law 3.5.1 

Agenda and appendicies are available here

Proposed By-Law Amendments only are available here (included in the Agenda link above as well)

SAGM Report available here

Propose By-law Amendments (NOW CLOSED)

Members wishing to submit a proposed by-law amendment must submit their name, student number and the full text of the proposed motion and amendment to the By-laws and Policies Committee by email <communications@yourtmsu.ca> by November 2, 2025, per By-law 12.1. Please include “SAGM Proposed By-law Amendment” in the subject line.

General Motions

Members wishing to submit a general motion for inclusion in the agenda and consideration by the members at the SAGM must submit their name, student number, and the full text of the motion to <communications@yourtmsu.ca> no later than November 2, 2025. Please include “SAGM General Motion for Consideration” in the subject line.

RYERSON STUDENTS’ UNION OPERATING AS TORONTO METROPOLITAN STUDENTS’ UNION

NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF MEMBERS TO BE HELD SEPTEMBER 29, 2025

TO: Each member of Toronto Metropolitan Students’ Union (the “Corporation”)

AND TO: Toronto Metropolitan University Campus Media

The directors of the Corporation have called for a Special General Meeting of the Corporation pursuant to By-law 3.2.3(a);

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN on behalf of the directors of the Corporationthat an in-person meeting of members will be held at the Toronto Metropolitan University campus in downtown Toronto, in the Tecumseh Auditorium of SCC Building (55 Gould Street) at 6:00 p.m. on September 29, 2025.

DATED at Toronto, Ontario this 15th day of August, 2025.

General Information

Monday September 29th, 2025
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM @ Tecumseh Auditorium

There will be food and refreshments (pizza, pop, coffee, water) available and the first 100 students to arrive will receive a free food box courtesy of the TMSU.  Please RSVP and fill out dietary preferences here.

The organizers treat accessibility as a top priority. To request accommodations please email equity@yourtmsu.ca. For general inquiries please email info@yourtmsu.ca.

Agenda

The SGM Agenda is below:

ITEM ONE: Call to Order Meeting is called to order at __________ PM.

Moved: ________ Seconded: _________ Result: ____________

ITEM TWO: Procedural Business Remarks from the Chair.

MOTION 2025-09-29-01 Be it resolved that the agenda for the September 29, 2025, Special Members Meeting be approved as presented.

Moved: __________ Seconded: _________ Result: _____________

ITEM THREE: Report from Board regarding ongoing independent investigation [no motion attached]

Presentation by Members of TMSU Board and MNP Investigators regarding ongoing independent investigation.

ITEM FOUR: Motion to temporarily amend by-laws to defer Fall 2025 by-election

WHEREAS the members of the Corporation (“Members”) have received a summary investigation report from MNP LLP;

AND WHEREAS the Members have received the report of the board of directors (the “Board”) with respect to the April 2025 decision of the Board to, among other things, void the Spring Election, suspend certain directors and officers (the “Suspended Directors”) until their term of office expired at the end of the school year, and extend the terms of office for directors and officers who were not suspended (the “Remaining Directors”);

AND WHEREAS pursuant to Section 24(5) of the Not-for-profit Corporations Act (Ontario) (the “Act”) if directors are not elected, the incumbent directors continue in office until their successors are elected;

AND WHEREAS Sections 4.17 and 6.13 of the Corporation’s By-laws (the “By-laws”) state that if a vacancy in the board of directors occurs in May, June or July a By-Election shall be held in the Fall Term and initiated in the month of September;

AND WHEREAS certain reforms are required to the governing structures of the Corporation in order to ensure future elections are reasonably free from corruption, and there is a significant likelihood that a by-election held at this time will be subject to the same corruption that impacted the 2025 Spring Election;

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED AS A SPECIAL RESOLUTION THAT:

1. The suspension of the Suspended Directors and the expiration of their terms of office is hereby ratified;

2. By-laws 4.17 and 6.13 are hereby amended by inserting the following language with immediate effect, which language shall automatically be deleted from the By-laws with effect as of April 30, 2026:

“; provided that and notwithstanding any other provisions of the By-laws, no By-Election shall be held in respect of vacancies existing as of the Fall Term of 2025.”

The Remaining Directors are hereby commissioned and authorized to conduct a review of the Corporation’s governing structures and make recommendations to the Members for structural reform to the By-laws that will permit the Corporation to hold free and fair elections in the spring of 2026.

MOTION 2025-09-29-02: Be it resolved that the September 29, 2025, Special Members Meeting be adjourned.

Moved: __________  Seconded: _______________ Result: __________

Meeting is adjourned at _______.