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As English Professor Heather Murray began digging into information on some of Toronto’s forgotten arts and literary history, she became…
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The Globe and Mail interviews writer Douglas Coupland who wrote a 2010 biography on U of T's Marshall McLuhan. Coupland’s book on the…
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A team of Canadian, U.S. and Japanese scientists are enlisting baker’s yeast in a hunt for better drugs. A new method developed by U of T…
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Wages and conditions in most of the developed world are often abysmal for care workers, many of them immigrant women of colour from less-developed…
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Nanoleaf, the startup co-founded by University of Toronto alumni Gimmy Chu, Tom Rodinger, and Christian Yan, brought its latest lighting product,…
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A team of U of T engineering students is providing solar-powered street lighting for a low-income neighbourhood in Mexico City. “Because it’s…
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Even though he grew up in an urban area surrounded by buildings, it wasn't until Omar Yossofzai took part in a study on migratory…
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Kylie Masse, the star of U of T’s Varsity Blues women’s swimming team, set a new world record and took the gold in the 100-metre backstroke at the…
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Since her childhood in Nigeria, Margaret Ikape has been fascinated by space. She remembers seeing a fireball blaze across the night sky when she…
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When U.S. President Donald Trump asserted his “complete power to pardon” on Twitter last week, speculation erupted over whether he planned…
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Four U of T engineering students are preparing for the flight of a lifetime. They've earned the rare chance to take an experiment they…
In the 1990s the large, nationally owned British Railways was split off into dysfunctionally separate entities and sold off to private…