Previous charges revealed from murderer’s bail hearing
Reports of online posts about incest and previous criminal charges revealed the bail hearing of Brian Dickson have been released after his murder trial.
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Three arrested in $1.6M fraud investigation
Three York University employees have been arrested in connection to a $1.6 million fraud investigation.
VIDEO: Update on shooting at York University
York University says they have taken measures to increase security at the school.
Church home to musical treasure
Behind a ceiling to floor screen on either side of the altar at the Metropolitan United Church in Toronto sits a unique piece of history. It’s 80 years old. It’s the largest artifact of its kind in Canada. And Dr. Patricia Wright knows it intimately. “It sounds wonderfully well with English music,” she said. “It has orchestra soundings stops, solo stops, and strings and flutes.”
York’s young hockey lions ready to roar
If the renaissance of the York University Lions arrived last season in force, this year is looking like it mightl be an ascendance to university hockey elite.
Scarborough Bluffs’ wind gauge removed from Lake Ontario
The preliminary results of the anenometer near the Scarborough bluffs are in: the site can support wind power generation. But that doesn’t mean turbines will be sprouting along the great lakes any time soon.
Ryerson student meeting addresses assaults on campus
Ryerson student Hanny Sierra thought all she needed to worry about in her third year graphic communications program was grades. “Given that so much attention has been brought to the issue, it is definitely concerning to think that safety is just one more thing Ryerson students have to worry about,” Sierra said.
Head shots changing the face of women’s hockey
Karolina Urban remembers most of the game. It was the last of her 2008-09 season. As captain of the University of Toronto women’s hockey team, she followed the puck on the ice. “The puck popped out and I got it,” she said. “The girl … just smoked me so hard that I twisted in the air before I landed.” That was Urban’s first concussion. She has suffered two since. They haven’t discouraged her.
Toronto scientists in hot pursuit of the ‘God particle’
Some of Toronto’s best minds in particle physics are hoping 2012 will be the year they achieve a big bang of their own, including a potential Nobel Prize in physics. The physicists, from the University of Toronto and York University, have a shot at discovering one of science’s Holy Grails, the Higgs boson – also known as the “God particle”.
Lecturers tread carefully amid sensitive subjects
Prof. Cameron Johnston’s class of nearly 500 social sciences students assembled in the York University lecture hall. He delivered his introductory lecture titled Self, Culture and Society. The day started out like most others, but it soon took an unexpected turn. Sarah Grunfeld, as reported by Brendan Kennedy of the Toronto Star, heard the professor say the words,“All Jews should be sterilized,” Johnston said.