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UTSU event pages are a particularly volatile and active corner of U of T’s social media landscape. Prior to September’s UTSU Emergency Townhall, conversation on the event’s Facebook page was preoccupied with the purported absence of former Minister of Training, Colleges, and Universities, Glen Murray, at the actual event.
Nearly six years since the Ukrainian parliament criminalized the denial of 1930s inflicted famine, Political Science professor stresses urgency of survivors' first hand accounts
Friday, 16 November 2012 06:18

Trudeaumania 2.0 comes to campus

On Tuesday, November 12, Justin Trudeau came to the University of Toronto for an interview and conversation with hundreds of interested participants. Hosted by the U of T Young Liberals, the event offered students a unique opportunity to hear the Liberal leadership candidate discuss his own struggles in politics and question him on a whole…
After over a year of negotiations, the first collective agreement for academic contract workers at St. Michael’s College will have to wait. Although the unionized workers had threatened to strike if a deal was not reached by midnight Wednesday, they agreed to continue negotiations Thursday morning. The union will convene with its members Thursday at…
In the recent debate over NATO intervention in Syria, hosted by the Hart House Debates Committee, both sides missed some key points in determining this critical question.
Friday, 16 November 2012 06:07

Licence to kill ... cancer cells?

The University Health Network (UNH) and development firm Stem Cell Therapeutics (SCT) successfully negotiated terms for a licensing agreement in regards to a breakthrough in cancer research made last year at Princess Margaret Hospital. Dr. Aaron Schimmer, clinician-scientist and Associate Professor of Medicine at U of T, determined that the drug Tigecycline, developed to cope…
Wednesday night’s conversation between former diplomats Robert Anders and Michael Shenstone, hosted by the U.S. Consulate and the University of Toronto International Relations Society, was an exercise in displaying Hollywood’s manipulation of historical reality.
Friday, 16 November 2012 05:57

U of T sports model under review

On November 5, proposed reforms to to the University of Toronto’s Intercollegiate Program appeared online for consultation. Three distinct models have been proposed, all sharing the goal of increasing competitiveness and success, and all organizing the existing Varsity teams into a multi-tiered system across which resources are no longer distributed evenly.
There are new and exciting developments in the world of regenerative medicine. With stem cell research opening the door to potential new treatments and cures for known diseases, it is beginning the transition from labs to practice through an ongoing process of commercialization.
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