The University of Toronto Varsity Blues men’s hockey team head into the new Ontario University Athletics season with a confidence only tempered by a single question mark – offence. Head coach Darren Lowe starts his…
University of Windsor’s junior quarterback Austin Kennedy completed 14-of-21 passes for 300 yards and two scores in a 55-4 thumping of the University of Toronto on Saturday afternoon.
Coach Jim Sheppard believes putting a group of talented players on a field is easy. Making sure they fit and work together is the hard part.
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.
Last year, Josh Desir didn’t think he would graduate from high school. Today, the 20-year-old is enrolled in the Academic and Career Entrance (ACE) program at Centennial College’s Ashtonbee Campus.
A strike by University of Toronto teaching assistants has been avoided for now. After an eight-month-long negotiation battle, a tentative agreement between U of T and Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) local 3902 is now up for a ratification vote by TAs.
The owner of T & T Copy Centre in Toronto has learned the seriousness of copyright infringement. Due Tinh Nguyen pleaded guilty to contempt of court on Jan. 13, and was sentenced to six months in prison. He was found in possession of illegally reproduced university course packages in 2010, after a prior conviction in 2008, when he was ordered to pay $132,000.
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”.
When Ken Weber lectures about the War of 1812, he often witnesses an unexpected sense of pride in his audiences. “The physical reality is that by resisting the Americans in the War of 1812, the Canadian side of the border made a statement,” he said.
Even after losing his team’s starting point guard to graduation, University of Toronto basketball coach Rick Dilena is confident about his team this season.