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Emotions ran high at Tuesday’s town hall meeting aimed at addressing Toronto's rapid transit plans. The meeting, hosted by TTC Chair Karen Stintz and centrist Councillor Josh Matlow, was intended to provide an evidence-based argument for the transit plan approved by council on February 8. “I came into office believing that we always needed to…
Thursday, 01 March 2012 10:00

Deadlock broken, maybe

In the early hours of last Saturday morning, CUPE 3902 and the University of Toronto reached a tentative agreement, averting a strike. This agreement has now been presented to the union’s unit-1 general membership—which includes teaching assistants, lab supervisors, invigilators, and course instructors—for ratification or rejection.
Thursday, 01 March 2012 10:00

Tempers flare at all-candidates' debate

Candidates in the student union election exchanged jabs last night in a series of heated debates that touched on many issues but centered on the question of whether or not to build a bar on campus. Despite intervention by the moderator and Director of Multi-Faith Centre Richard Chambers, the lively debate sometimes turned nasty.
What went on outside the Governing Council meeting, by Andrew Walt This past Thursday, hundreds of U of T students and campus contract workers braved dreary weather to rally behind CUPE 3902's fight for better working conditions for teaching assistants and stronger support for graduate students. The demonstration, which took place in front of Simcoe…
Thursday, 16 February 2012 10:00

If time is money, mo' problems

If you think of time as money, you may be inhibiting your own happiness. In a new study entitled “Time, money, and happiness: how does putting a price on time affect our ability to smell the roses,” authors Professor Sanford Devoe and PhD student Julian House found that a person who thinks of time as…
Thursday, 16 February 2012 10:00

Cities Centre advises City Hall on transit plan

Days before the vote on Toronto’s public transit plan, the Cities Centre at U of T published an open letter urging City Council to make well-informed decisions regarding long-term public transit. One key recommendation in the letter was to reverse the mayor’s decision to build the entirety of the Eglinton LRT underground. The letter was…
Thursday, 09 February 2012 10:00

Study finds police crime reports colour blind

The tendency towards colour-blindness when it comes to crime data reporting by the Canadian police force has come under fire in a recent study by University of Toronto Criminology PhD student, Akwasi Owusu-Bempah.
Thursday, 09 February 2012 10:00

Artsciencecamps2: double the excitement

Musical shoes, quantum weirdness, technological singularity and the AHA Effect were but only a few topics covered by the second annual ArtScienceCamp unconference, held at Hart House on February 3 and 4. And let’s not forget the dressup photobooth, which added an even greater sense of fun and informality to the two-day affair.
Thursday, 09 February 2012 10:00

UBC wants to get to know you

For at least one major Canadian university, prospective undergraduates may soon need more than just good grades to enrol. Starting in September, the University of British Columbia will implement a “broad-based admissions” process at its Vancouver campus. The new method requires students to answer four to six “personal profile” questions as a complement to their…
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