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“You’re entering a new world, and all I can do today is share with you my journey and how in that journey, nothing was irrelevant.”

With those words Vandana Shiva addressed a Convocation Hall filled with hopeful graduates Nov. 12, moments after receiving her honorary doctor of laws from Chancellor Michael Wilson.

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Faculty, staff, students and alumni arriving on the St. George campus Nov. 9 were greeted by a newly constructed, full-sized cenotaph dedicated to the men and women of Canada’s Armed Forces.

Installed on King’s College Circle, in front of Convocation Hall, the monument is part of an engineering tradition that began in 2005. Since then students from the Faculty of Engineering have been designing and building respectful and innovative memorials to commemorate Remembrance Day.

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Canadian politics is becoming more polarized as people with right-wing attitudes cluster in the Conservative party, and left-wingers seek out the New Democratic Party, says the University of Toronto's Chris Cochrane.

This polarization is likely to spell trouble for the Liberals, and possibly trouble for Canada as a whole, warns Cochrane, an assistant professor of political science at University of Toronto Scarborough.

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It is time to embrace growing evidence that it is the interaction between biology and environment in early life that influences human development, says University Professor Marla Sokolowski. 

“Biologists used to think that our differences are pre-programmed in our genes, while psychologists argued that babies are born with a blank slate and their experience writes on it to shape them into the adults they become," said Sokolowski, a behavioural geneticist.

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Late in the evenings, after most students have trickled out of the Bahen Centre,the University of Toronto’s Supermileage team is just getting started.

“I got the tires!” announced fourth-year mechanical engineering student Michael Stranges, as his team members cheered. The team has spent the last six months designing a vehicle that’s fuel efficient enough to compete in the Shell Eco-marathon Americas 2013.