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Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) is a campus based, student activist non-profit organization based in Ontario, Canada.
OPIRG is broken into eleven distinct chapters, and serves as a hub organization, allowing the organizing committees of the local chapters to exchange ideas, better educate themselves and co-ordinate plans and undertakings. The public interest research group’s main areas of interest are in the encouragement of diversity and issues of social or environmental concern.
Local chapters are:
- Brock
- Carleton
- Guelph
- Kingston
- McMaster
- Ottawa
- Peterborough
- Toronto
- Waterloo
- Windsor
- York
The Laurier Students Public Interest Research Group is also a PIRG based in Ontario, however it is not a member of the OPIRG network.
Same goes for The University of Western Ontario Public Interest Research Group.
Reference
- Ontario Public Interest Research Group Accessed December 16, 2005
External links
- OPIRG-Brock
- OPIRG-Carleton
- OPIRG-Guelph
- OPIRG-Kingston
- OPIRG-McMaster
- OPIRG-Ottawa
- OPIRG-Peterborough
- OPIRG-Toronto
- Waterloo PIRG
- OPIRG-Windsor
- OPIRG-York
- LSPIRG - Wilfrid Laurier University
- UWO PIRG - London