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The UN climate change conference, otherwise known as COP23, kicked off in Bonn, Germany today with governments working toward a “rule book”…
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Bruce Kidd has heard the jokes about Scarborough – "Scarberia," land of strip malls and stabbings – and he doesn’t think they’re fair or…
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Senator Murray Sinclair, the former chief commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, has been awarded an honorary degree from the…
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Last month, Sidewalk Labs, a sister company of Google, and Waterfront Toronto announced their intention to create a new, technologically connected…
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The latest medical innovation to spring from Aled Edwards’s University of Toronto lab isn’t a new protein structure or potential drug target – it’s a…
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Two acclaimed voices in Canadian opera who met as student and teacher are receiving honorary degrees from the University of Toronto on…
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Yoonkyung Lee is an associate professor of sociology in the Faculty of Arts & Science who studies labour politics, social movements and political…
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They spent years in lecture halls, libraries and laboratories, volunteered in communities across Canada and interned with companies around the world –…
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Geoffrey Hinton may be the "godfather" of deep learning, a suddenly hot field of artificial intelligence, or AI – but that doesn't mean…
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University of Toronto professor and famed media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s legacy continues to reach far and wide, shaping the way people think…
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The recent uproar about seats on a British Airways flight crawling with bedbugs is only one of the unintended consequences that urbanization worldwide…
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A study by University of Toronto researchers is shedding new light on how and why people in low socioeconomic households make the food choices…