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November 14, 2016

More than 34 million trees in the Greater Toronto Area providing canopy cover for 26 per cent of its total land area would cost $14.2-billion to…

November 14, 2016

Ronny Yaron was one of the first residents to move into the St. Lawrence Neighbourhood in Toronto 37 years ago. A single mother of two, Yaron was…

November 14, 2016

Three years, four moves and numerous renovations later, Kathleen Fox is only now getting settled after surviving Alberta’s worst flood. She’s having a…

November 14, 2016

For several years, health-care teams at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto focused on speeding up turnaround times in operating rooms to avoid having…

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November 14, 2016

When a person goes into cardiac arrest, every passing minute hurts their chances of survival. Now, a group of University of Toronto researchers want…

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November 14, 2016

The University of Toronto will hold an academic forum this week for the University community to discuss Bill C-16 and the gender provisions of the…

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November 14, 2016

A single ant or termite is not very intelligent, but in large groups they can perform complex and useful behaviours – like protecting each other or…

November 14, 2016

Depending on the weather, Michael Mumford will walk, cycle or take the subway to work and back home. Roughly every two weeks, he and his wife rent a…

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November 11, 2016

Rudy Boonstra has been doing field research in Canada’s north for more than 40 years. Working mostly out of the Arctic Institute’s Kluane Lake…

Lucy McPhee
November 11, 2016

Lucy McPhee entered U of T with wide eyes and an ambition shared by many undergrads: to become a doctor. So how did the double major in…

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November 11, 2016

Legendary singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen has died at the age of 82. With songs like Hallelujah and So Long, Marianne, he charmed the world for…

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November 11, 2016

When the wounded warriors of the First World War returned home, Canada’s veterans could count on the University of Toronto to support their…