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As expressions go, “gosh” seems tame enough. But when Sali Tagliamonte was a teenager in summer camp, uttering even a more polite version of the…
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At the age of 11, Karina Vernon found herself in Olds, Alta. She had been born in Honduras, but moved with her parents and sister to Calgary. When…
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Igor Stagljar, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, and Toronto-based biotechnology…
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They weren’t getting it. I had a room full of bright first-year university students in front of me, but confusion reigned as I tried to describe…
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For at least one day in Grade 2, Susan Strangway was unquestionably the most popular girl in school. Her dad, David Strangway, was…
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Is there plastic in your drinking water? The University of Toronto’s Bob Andrews and Chelsea Rochman say there is – but, unfortunately, they don’t…
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University of Toronto is home to titans of diabetes research – and Mladen Vranic was among them. Vranic died at the age of 89 on June 18 and is…
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On July 21, 1969, people around the world crowded around their televisions to witness history in the making: astronaut Neil Armstrong taking his…
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The University of Toronto is increasingly regarded as one of the world’s leading academic institutions. The 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) World…
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A young woman with blonde hair and a nose ring peers curiously at the camera. A middle-aged man with grey hair leans against a tree. A young man…
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Growing up in Nigeria, one of Chidozie Ojobor’s most visceral memories was the death of his older sister, Ginika, who died of typhoid fever in…
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Louie Xia first started translating Chinese text into English as a hobby in Grade 8. He would translate all sorts of things – news articles…