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Sugar has a bad rap. To most of us, it represents empty calories and a constant battle for the waistlines of the nation. Lost in that narrative is…
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Varsity Blues swimmer Kylie Masse tied for a bronze medal in the women's 100-metre backstroke race in Rio – Canada's fourth medal of these…
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A $50,000 donation from Grammy-award winning star The Weeknd will help the University of Toronto launch Ethiopian studies. Starting in…
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The University of Toronto's Blue Sky Solar Racing team has finished third in the American Solar Challenge – an eight-day, rally-style solar…
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Ten young people, one big challenge: get their generation to play a part in Toronto’s future. That was the ambitious goal for a research team…
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The Canadian and American Olympic boxing teams competing in Rio de Janeiro may just have the upper hand – thanks to a wearable technology…
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The excitement started even before the opening ceremonies – with a 2-0 victory by the Canadian women’s soccer team over Australia on the…
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Mapping the City is an ongoing series on the stories we can tell about people and places in Toronto through maps created by University of Toronto…
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“As brilliant as Shakespeare is, he’s not a genre. I think what happens is that people like a version of the past that they feel they can get a handle…
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A proposed 21-acre downtown Toronto park is being touted as a bold project that will help redefine the city. But will it? The Rail Deck Park would…
For more than 40 years, an international group of researchers based in the Department of French at the University of Toronto has been reading…
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This summer, travelling through South Africa with the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, Kim Skead drove past an informal…