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1. Rae Watch

   Mar 3 by Luke Savage

   Next September will mark the 20th anniversary of Bob Rae’s election as Premier of Ontario and the 43rd anniversary of the beginning of his tenure at The Varsity. Our conversation began here, as I asked him to share some recollections from his time at our newspaper and as a student at University College. Like most U of T students in...

2. Shameful showing at UTM

   Protestors at Ignatieff’s visit to Mississauga made a mockery of the university and themselves

   Jan 25 by Grant Heaslip

   On Jan. 13, Stephen Taylor—a prominent Canadian conservative blogger—posted a [photo series][1] documenting students protesting at [the UTM stop][2] on Michael Ignatieff’s recent university tour. The slogans written on the protestors’ placards were full of blatant mistruths, outright xenophobia, misspellings, brazen irony, and a complete ignorance of reality. These photos are absolutely shameful, especially because the students in them—some of...

3. Ignatieff hits UTM

   Liberal leader takes questions, gets sweatshirt

   Jan 14 by Semra Eylul Sevi

   Michael Ignatieff, U of T alum and leader of the Liberal Party, stopped by the UTM campus on Wednesday. Ignatieff is on a week-long, 11-campus tour across Canada to promote “Canada at 150: Rising to the Challenge,” a “non-partisan” conference in March hosted by the Liberals. Ignatieff spoke to a full house at UTM, with latecomers directed to an overflow...