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• blogTO notes the five longest TTC routes in Toronto.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes evidence that objects detected by Kepler are gravitationally bound to their parent stars.
• The Dragon's Tales tracks the migrations of raccoons and their kind from North to South America, and notes that Pacific Island nations are hoping to find places they can evacuate their ( Read more... )

Emma Teitel at MacLean's writes about the controversy surrounding the law school of Trinity Western University. A private Christian university in British Columbia, TWU's effort to open a law school nearly came aground on the basis of a covenant barring non-heterosexual students. There were consequences, and Teitel argues that there should be ( Read more... )

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Toronto's Ryerson University is the third university of Toronto, postdating the University of Toronto and York University both and only upgrading from a technical college to a fully-fledged university over the 1990s. Perhaps because of this late start, the Ryerson University campus has been rapidly expanding from its core northeast of Yonge and ( Read more... )

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It's not a lie for me at all when I say that the time I spent at Queen's University, located in the charming limestone-clad city of Kingston where the Great Lakes narrow into the St. Lawrence River, was one of the happiest times of my life. I'd go so far as to say that it help start off what has been the happiest period of my life to date. I love ( Read more... )

blogTo's Brady Yauch warns that at the University of Toronto, Toronto's premier university, the fear of a strike by staff is receding.

The union is asking the university to cover University Health Insurance Plan (UHIP). premiums for international students. UHIP is a private for-profit healthcare plan that currently charges about $3000 per year to ( Read more... )