Tag: University of Toronto
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Lawyer warns of systemic racism fuelling the security state
BY JAKE HRIBLJAN While some Canadians may find the niqab an infringement on Canadian culture, legal scholar and activist Azeezah Kanji sees the recent election debate as one of the latest examples of a deeply entrenched system of institutionalized racism. Two weeks ago, University of Toronto’s Hart House hosted its annual Hancock Lecture, given by…
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Student Union should stop saying ‘screw you’ to U-Pass
EDITORIAL BY JEANYLYN LOPEZ Oakville Transit director Barry Cole said he’s proposed that Sheridan get a U-Pass for seven years, but has been repeatedly turned down by the Student Union. The SU maintains students aren’t interested. Yet, in a recent survey conducted by the Sheridan Sun, 90 per cent of students said they want a…
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First times: Surgeon hooked after first look inside brain
STORY BY DYLAN PAISLEY The first time Howard Ginsberg saw a dead body he was horrified. Now a neurosurgeon, Ginsberg was in his first year of medical school at the University of Toronto when he had to practise on a cadaver. “The normal human reaction is to be sick to your stomach,” said Ginsberg. “The…