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April 9, 2009

Going green, eventually

Over the past decade, greenhouse gas and the Kyoto Protocol have become household names, and environmental sustainability has exploded as one of the pivotal issues of our generation. U of T’s response to this movement is directed by the Sustainability Office, launched at St. George in 2004, with a mandate to “substantially reduce the consumption […]

April 9, 2009

Grad activist condemns Barrick lawsuit against book

A grad student at U of T has been mentioned in a legal face-off between the world’s largest mining company and three Montreal authors. Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corporation is suing Delphine Abadie, Alain Deneault and William Sacher over their French-language book Noir Canada: Pillage, corruption et criminalité en Afrique (Black Canada: Plundering, Bribery and Crime […]

April 9, 2009

Bike for free

Students and staff can now bike for free, courtesy of U of T’s Bikechain. After filling out a membership form and providing a $25 deposit, students can sign out a bike of their choice for two business days. The rental service re-launched for the spring on April 1. “I absolutely believe the University of Toronto […]

April 9, 2009

Listen up, TTC

Everybody complains about the TTC, but engineering students have gone one step further. For the last six weeks, first-year students in the Engineer Science Praxis II class have worked on solutions to issues that they identified and researched earlier in the course. On April 15, they’ll unveil their solutions to major drawbacks of the transit […]

April 9, 2009

U of T marks Rwanda Week

Tuesday night saw the launch of Rwanda Week, a series of events to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, which runs until Saturday. All events are at 45 Willcocks Street, in the William Doo Auditorium. The week’s events focus on recovery and healing in post-genocidal Rwanda. “It is only through memories that we […]

April 6, 2009

Budget funds fall short of expectations

Ontario will give Ontario colleges and universities $780 million in capital funding over the next two years, the province announced in its budget last week. The money will pay for infrastructure costs, including updating older facilities and building new ones. The government has also promised a one-time $150-million cash relief injection to help postsecondary schools […]

April 6, 2009

$1.3 billion down the tubes

The University of Toronto’s aggressive investment policies have come under fire after its $5.5-billion endowment and pension fund posted a 30 per cent shrinkage for 2008. The university announced a $1.3-billion loss on its assets on Tuesday—a 29.5 per cent drop in pension funds and 29.4 per cent in endowments. The losses are worse than […]

April 6, 2009

Who’s cashing in?

Ontario’s top-paid university employee is from U of T, and he’s not a professor. John Lyon made $557,474.36 in salaries and benefits last year, as managing director of private markets and co-chief investment officer at the U of T Asset Management Corporation. Lyon has come under fire for his high pay after UTAM-managed investments lost […]

April 6, 2009

UTSU ratifies election results

In accordance with UTSU’s by-laws requiring one meeting per term at UTM, the April 2 meeting took place at the campus’ Student Centre. Last month’s election results were ratified; and other housekeeping tasks included annually adjusting student levies to meet the economy’s consumer price index. Innis College Student Society president Mike Maher, who ran unsuccessfully […]

March 30, 2009

South Asian Studies moves to Munk

Due to dwindling enrolment, the South Asian Studies undergrad program is moving in with its graduate counterpart at the Munk Centre’s Asian Institute. Longer-term plans include eliminating SAS majors and specialists. Starting September, the course-code prefix NEW for South Asian Studies courses offered from New College will be replaced by SAS. The change comes with […]

March 30, 2009

Can Saskatchewan pay you to move there?

Saskatchewan is hungry for grads. This week, its premier, Brad Wall, heads to Toronto this week to promote his province’s offer: up to $20,000 to move to Saskatchewan and stay there for seven years. Wall will hit the National Job Fair and the Grab-a-Grad fair on Tuesday and Wednesday, in his second recruitment drive in […]

March 30, 2009

Court orders Quebec profs to back down

Striking professors at the Université du Québec à Montréal are to tone down their tactics in the last days of the semester, the Quebec Supreme Court ruled last Wednesday. Judge Jean-François de Grandpré granted a 10-day injunction that bans any attempts to intimidate students, staff and faculty, or to block them from entering campus buildings. […]


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