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January 26, 2009

Search continues for Osgoode subway shooter

A young man was shot in the abdomen and leg last Thursday after three bullets were fired inside Osgoode Subway Station during the mid-morning rush. Within minutes, police from the city’s Emergency Task Force and 52 division arrived at the station’s entrance at University and Queen Street. Police closed a section of the north-south line […]

January 26, 2009

Med postgrads lose funding

All postgraduate medical research awards at U of T will likely be cancelled, the school’s Postgraduate Medical Education Office told The Varsity. PMEO’s awards officer Gerard Nagalingam made the announcement last week, citing a major drop in the university’s endowment fund due to the global economic situation. Nagalingam added that the cancellation must be approved […]

January 15, 2009

Get paid to go to school

Education think-tank says cost of education should consider tax rebates The full length of the bars (above) represent what each student paid in tuition from the years 1997 to 2008. The Education Policy Institute argues that the real cost is denoted by the black portion of the bar—what students don’t get back from tax rebates. […]

January 15, 2009

Bucks for smarts

Ontario’s budget comes out this spring, and student groups hope to cash in. The province’s Standing Committee of Finance and Economic Affairs welcomes budget suggestions from groups and individuals until the end of the month. Both the upcoming provincial and federal budgets will face tough scrutiny under the current financial recession. Yesterday, the Ontario Undergraduate […]

January 15, 2009

Recession update: senior admin offer up raises

Canadian universities are feeling the impact of the recession. At U of T, senior administrative staff—including the president, vice-presidents, principals, and deans—have voluntarily accepted a salary freeze for the 2009 to 2010 period in anticipation of further financial strain. Salaries of senior administrators at U of T have risen between 5 and 10 per cent […]

January 15, 2009

The Star tours TO’s cheap textbook market

The Toronto Star has reported on 10 copy shops near U of T and Ryerson University who photocopy textbooks for students in violation of copyright laws. While the Star suggested that high tuition costs are the reason students might head to copy shops instead of bookstores to get their required reading, the article went a […]

January 15, 2009

Cold Front

U of T’s favourite hangout spot in the spanking new $105-million Terrence Donnelly Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Research is feeling the weather in its fourth winter. Falling ice cracked several panes of glass of the sixth floor atrium (right) in the CCBR. The building’s ground floor garden and staircases have been temporarily closed as […]

January 15, 2009

Palestinians in Toronto enraged at Canada’s support for Israel’s war

“This isn’t really a new war, it’s been going on for a long time,” says Abdel Karim, a Palestinian student studying finance at UTM. “Talk to any Palestinian here and he’ll say, ‘Okay, so they dropped some bombs, in a couple weeks it’ll stop and then it will happen again.’ It’s the same thing.” The […]

January 15, 2009

Just the Facts: Get on Governing Council

Though cynics might have you believe the big decisions at U of T are made in smoke-filled rooms out of sight and off the record, this has not officially been the case for some time. The Governing Council, U of T’s highest decision-making body, is holding its annual elections to seat eight elected student representatives. […]

January 15, 2009

York strikers to vote on latest contract

The 10-week-old TA and contract faculty strike at York University could end as early as next week if a vote passes to accept the latest contract offer from the school’s administration. CUPE 3903, the Union representing the striking employees, is asking the 3,300 striking employees to reject the offer, calling it “substandard.” York admin claim […]

January 12, 2009

Union prez stands by call to ban Israeli academics

As casualties mount in Gaza, criticism mounts at home over union president Sid Ryan’s call for an academic boycott on Israel. Advocates deem the boycott an effective way to influence the Israeli government, while critics argue the move unfairly targets Israeli professors for nothing more than their nationality. Ryan is the head of CUPE Ontario, […]

January 12, 2009

Greek riots mirror Toronto’s problems, protesters say

In December, Greek protesters occupied 700 high schools and 100 universities amid days of massive riots, after police shot and killed 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. His death fuelled anger at economic policies as the global financial crisis hit Greece, with demonstrators rallying against the privatization of education, barriers to immigration, police repression, and poverty. Their chants […]


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