MUSC 229 as a Creative Hub
The OPIRG Board of Directors is looking to make changes to the space in our Resource Centre, located in the McMaster University Student Centre room 229. Our board member Katerina has the portfolio for [...]
Youtube Channel
Check out our Youtube Channel for some recent and legacy videos about the work we do. We are always looking for volunteers to join our multi-media and communications team, so click on the button [...]
Talking Butterflies
A lovely butterfly garden is the perfect setting for this annual speaker series. August 4, 2018, Guest speaker: Doreen Nicoll You cannot have Monarch Butterflies without milkweed. Doreen Nicoll has recently become a heroine [...]
Volunteer with Turtles of Cootes
Did you know that approximately 80-100 turtles get crushed by cars on Cootes drive annually! Turtles of Cootes is a working group with OPIRG McMaster. Our group's main focus to improve the conservation [...]
2017-2018 Working Group Highlights (infographic)
Highlights from each group in 2017-2018. Asterisks indicate a new group (approved late first term and the start of the second term. Eight of 10 Working Groups submitted annual reports.) Groups reapply in the [...]
What do we want from working groups?
OPIRG McMaster has a Strategic Plan, with a key point dealing with how we support student action, currently via approved "Working Groups" STRATEGIC PLAN (From Year One Plan): Through resources and support we will [...]
Volunteer Survey is working again!
For those filling out our Volunteer Satisfaction Survey - an issue with one of the submit settings has been fixed after it was brought to our attention - we're very sorry for the inconvenience! [...]
Research Shop Street Tree Canvassing Report
Thank you to former student staff and volunteers who helped by answering a phone survey with the Research Shop team, and the report authors.
The business of OPIRG
Dr. Karen Balcom's class project put some really engaged Integrated Business and Humanities students in touch with OPIRG. After some email and a phone interview with OPIRG's Coordinator of Volunteers, the students put this [...]
OPIRG History: 1996 Tuition Blockade
The 1996 McMaster Blockade By Parnika Godkhindi, OPIRG McMaster During OPIRG’s first year at McMaster University, a historic “Day of Action” protest was held on Wednesday, 7 February 1996 in response to increasing [...]