Ontario Public Interest Research Group
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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:
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.
