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Album in review: Angus & Julia Stone – Down The Way

March 30 marks the release of Angus and Julia Stone’s second album, Down the Way. It’s been three years since the Aussie sibling duo released their debut album, A Book Like This, in 2007. For fans of the debut album’s tracks, “Just a Boy,” “Stranger,” and “A Book Like This,” Down the Way offers more. [...]

By Iman Mohammed | 29 Mar 10 | Comments (0)

Remembering Alzheimer’s disease

First, you can’t find your keys. Then, when you head to the kitchen to get a glass of water, you forget for a few seconds what you’re there for. These inconvenient memory lapses happen to everyone. Not everyone, however, remembers right away what they wanted to do. Some never remember at all. Half a million [...]

By Matthew Filipowich | 15 Mar 10 | Comments (0)

Strike averted

According to a message posted this morning on the University of Toronto’s website, the University has reached a tentative agreement with CUPE 3902, Unit 3 and will be operating as normal on Monday.” Unit 3 posted a message on its site that reads, “(…) details of [the] settlement will be available soon. The strike planned [...]

By Alain Latour | 08 Nov 09 | Comments (1)

Strike at UTM?

In a bulletin issued last Thursday, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 3902 announced a strike deadline for sessional instructors at the University of Toronto. That date is Monday, November 9—exactly three weeks before the current semester ends. In the same bulletin, CUPE announced it had rejected the University’s latest offer because it [...]

By Alain Latour | 02 Nov 09 | Comments (0)

CAN do attitude

On October 20, U of Ts Hart House received Bollywood star Rahul Bose and Solomon Island teenage activist Christina Ora to talk about current issues on climate change. Voices for Climate Justice Tour sponsored the two-hour presentation, which focused both on the impact of climate change in South Asia and islands in the South Pacific [...]

By Mary Dytyniak | 26 Oct 09 | Comments (0)

Poll: What are your thoughts on the campus construction projects?

With new construction projects on campus set to go into full gear, The Medium wants to know what you think.

By The Medium | 08 Sep 09 | Also published in Poll | Comments (0)

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  • Last week hundreds of new students dressed in matching green t-shirts flocked to the student centre to meet their frosh leaders. I first noticed the first year students as they awkwardly thrust their pelvises at the command of older frosh leaders and I was reminded of my own frosh experience at UTM—minus the pelvic thrusting; [...]

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    • Presidential address


  • On behalf of the union, the elected Executives, Board of Directors, and Staff Members, we would like to welcome and congratulate you for beginning a new academic year 2010-11.The summer session was very busy for UTMSU as your students’ union underwent many changes. We have not only improved service at the Student Centre, but also [...]

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