The University of Toronto Mississauga Students' Union (UTMSU) is the elected representative body for full-time undergraduates at the University of Toronto Mississauga, a campus of the University of Toronto in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Established as the Erindale College Student Union in 1983, it has been the official representative student committee since 2019.
The Erindale College Student Union was incorporated on August 2, 1983 as an informal representative organization for students at the Mississauga campus, then known as Erindale College.[2] At the time, the University of Toronto Students' Union (UTSU) were the official representative student committee (as outlined in the University of Toronto Act) recognized by the Governing Council of the University of Toronto for undergraduates at Erindale. The Erindale College Student Union entered an Associate Membership Agreement (AMA) with the UTSU in 2008, where UTM students would pay part of their tuition to the UTSU and part to the UTMSU. In 2018, each body voted independently to end the AMA, as the Mississauga campus had grown significantly and students sought their own representation. This separation became official that year and in 2019, the Governing Council passed a resolution to make the Erindale College Student Union, now operating as the University of Toronto Mississauga Students' Union, the campus's official representative student committee.[3]
Operations
Student Centre
The UTMSU is based in the Student Centre which opened in 1999. Located in the middle of campus, the centre has long been a hub for student activities at UTM and is also home to various clubs, student societies, and The Medium, the primary campus newspaper.[4]
Blind Duck
The Blind Duck Pub is run by the UTMSU in the Student Centre. The restaurant, established in 1999, is a popular dining spot on campus and also has a Chatime bubble tea location.[5][6]
Criticisms and controversy
In 2025 the UTMSU, in collaboration with a U of T Palestinian student club, held an event on the Mississauga campus intended as a vigil for Palestinians killed in the ongoing Gaza genocide. This event, held on October 7 — two years following the beginning of the genocide in 2023 — garnered the attention of several headlines criticizing the students' union under the accusation of "glorifying terrorism".[7] Notably, the Ontario minister of energy and mines Stephen Lecce wrote on X accusing the groups of hate and antisemitism, stating that such type of gathering "should be condemned and banned from any campus."[8] According to a student representative, the purpose of the ceremony was "to hold space for people to grieve the countless innocent lives lost over the past two years, and especially since Oct. 7, 2023," and denied all allegations of antisemitism and hate.[9]
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