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Building a startup company is a daunting prospect – often more so if you’re a woman. But things may finally be starting to change. That was…
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Thanks to a $25-million gift, the University of Toronto is creating the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children, which will develop innovative…
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Just over three years ago, the first wave of Syrians began arriving in Canada, fleeing the civil war that uprooted their lives and drove them to…
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Global Engineering Week, which takes place next week, will challenge students at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Applied Science &…
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Second-year medical student Courtney Francis is known to many on social media as @TheGirlyMD. She’s using her rapidly growing platform as an…
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The federal government has a goal of achieving gender equity across all levels of sport by 2035. Minister of Sport Kirsty Duncan announced…
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Their drawings are detailed and precise, yet they capture the beauty of the human body – a feat that makes the work of some of Canada’s earliest…
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University of Toronto graduate students have found that artificial intelligence, or AI, can be used to improve decision-making in almost…
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University of Toronto professor A.F. (Albert) Moritz – Toronto's new poet laureate – plans to use the post to celebrate the city and…
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New research led by a University of Toronto faculty member will provide important data about the use of community pharmacy services across the…
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Christine de Pizan, one of the first women in the West to earn a living by her pen, is increasingly seen as one of the most important thinkers of her…
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He’s rubbed shoulders with Barack Obama, hosted eight Olympic opening ceremonies, and was the deep, commanding voice in Canadian living rooms,…