On Jan. 1, the Ontario government introduced the 30 per cent tuition rebate program for students. The controversial program has been scrutizined by the recent Drummond report. Don Drummond, the former chief economist for the Toronto-Dominion Bank, was contracted by the McGuinty government last year to give suggestions about where to cut government expenditures in order to reduce Ontario’s $16 [...]

Meet Professor Effie Sauer. Sauer has been teaching chemistry at UTSC since 2009, but she’s had a passion for the subject much before that. Sauer is interested in what goes on in the making of products and turning it into ‘green chemistry.’ “What kinds of reactions can we do in an environmentally benign way, and then build a tool box [...]

Gaming has significantly improved from the time of pixelated screens controlled by coin-operated machinery. Now we are in the age of portable and mobile HD gaming. Major platforms have transformed how we play games, setting new benchmarks in visual appeal, featuring effective control schemes and online multiplayer options, and delivering content for the audience to absorb. But there are also [...]

Students rarely praise UTSC, whether it’s about school spirit, student government, food options or the general culture of the area. We call it the Scarborough bubble syndrome: we’re all stuck in a bubble with no beer and awful transit and we hate it.

It may be surprising to note how few students at UTSC have even a remote interest in fair trade. For that matter, not that many people even have a clue what fair trade is all about.