I attended both UW and Ryerson. At UW I majored in Geography with a specialization in Geomatics. I took all the planning courses that I was allowed to, and a few with prof. permission, given I was not in the School of Planning. Looking back I kind of wish I had entered Planning from the get-go, but c'est la vie. I agree with all the above posters and their comments on the faculty (dude-chick ratio, courses, etc.) Jean Andrey was my fav. prof. and I enjoyed all of her classes, although not necessarily stats, but who does? During my fourth year I was in a special topics course with Jean and we worked with the Region to do field work for what is now the iExpress bus route, where we would survey the '500-metre radius' around the stations.
At Ryerson I did the two-year Planning degree open to those who already have a degree elsewhere. In terms with workloads and gender ratios, I would say it's equivalent with UW. I found students to be more mature at UW, but it may been because I was just a bit older while at Ryerson.
At Ryerson I found the campus life to be heavily lacking compared to UW, but that is because Ryerson is a small part of Toronto with a lot of everything all over, and UW is large part of Waterloo, which is a typical suburb with two universities and a college in the middle.
One thing that the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson has that sets it apart are the studio courses, especially in 3rd and 4th year. These courses puts groups of students working with various community groups or organizations doing practical work. I felt the transportation courses were pretty good too, except the lack of a resident transportation prof. Jim Mars was a great trans. prof. but is retired, and Dennis Kar only teaches one course a year. Maybe there is someone new who is full-time, I don't know.
As for getting a job, I had no problem and a lot of my friends had no problem finding work right after Ryerson, but I do know others in my class who haven't found work, and right now there really isn't anything. I work with a bunch of people who went to UW and they also had no problem finding work after graduating.