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King Street streetcar
January 9, 2018

Toronto’s King Street transit pilot aims to improve transit reliability, speed and capacity, along with a number of other measures included in an…

jerry flores
January 9, 2018

On election night in the U.S. in 2016, Jerry Flores had offers from three universities in front of him. With Donald Trump as the new president,…

Jason Bazylak in front of Convocation Hall
January 9, 2018

Jason Bazylak remembers what it was like to be an Indigenous student arriving at university to study engineering. "My first year was particularly…

Photo of Fire and Fury, the Trump version
January 8, 2018

Randall Hansen, the interim director of the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, is seeing a bump in sales for his 2008 book,…

Photo of computer science faculty
January 8, 2018

For 20 years, Paul Gries, a University of Toronto associate professor of computer science, teaching stream, has wanted to introduce a “self-paced”…

Photo in anthropology lab
January 8, 2018

It looks like a police radar gun but the portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF) is a new version of a device that bombards a target with X-rays to obtain…

Photo of person at their desk
January 8, 2018

After the sleep-ins, big feasts and, in some cases, beach holidays of the previous month, it can be tough to readjust to work life in January. But…

Photo of Helen Rosenthal
January 5, 2018

Helen Stephanie Rosenthal was a skilled teacher whose mathematical acumen and commitment to equality and social justice led her to become an active…

Trump Twitter account
January 5, 2018

From a new crown prince making waves in Saudi Arabia to government protests in Iran and a battle between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean…

Student walking across front campus
January 4, 2018

The winter deep freeze is upon us. Environment Canada issued an extreme cold weather warning for Toronto on Thursday. Temperatures will fall…

Photo of Joseph Orozco
January 4, 2018

The mythology of the successful tech startup usually involves a novel idea, a brilliant dropout and a grubby garage.  But Joseph…