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