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The University of Toronto will join The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program, with a USD 22.5 million grant announced April 18 by The MasterCard Foundation. 

The grant is part of a $75 million announcement, which brings three Canadian institutions into The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program – a global education initiative to educate and develop next-generation African leaders who will contribute to social transformation across the continent.

It is one of the largest foundation grants in Canadian history.

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While Montreal’s smoked meat, bagels and cinq-à-septs haven’t changed over the years, other things have. One major change is the differences of income among the city’s residents.

Researchers from the University of Toronto-based Neighbourhood Change Research Partnership (NCRP) have found that income disparities among Montreal-area neighbourhoods have increased over the past 30 years.

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The Centre for Contemporary International History held a conference on the Lester B. Pearson government Tuesday, highlighted by an extraordinary, 90-minute question and answer session with former prime minister Jean Chrétien.

The conference came on the same day that Trinity College Provost Andy Orchard announced that Trinity Chancellor Bill Graham was donating $5 million to the centre, which will be renamed in his honour.

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A 190-million-year-old dinosaur bonebed near the city of Lufeng, in Yunnan, China has revealed for the first time how dinosaur embryos grew and developed in their eggs.

The great age of the embryos is unusual because almost all known dinosaur embryos are from the Cretaceous Period. The Cretaceous ended some 125 million years after the bones at the Lufeng site were buried and fossilized.

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It has been 10 years since severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) crept into Canada and paralyzed Toronto.

No one was prepared--hospitals were caught unaware and health care professionals struggled to make sense of a deadly virus that initially looked and felt like the common cold and flu. During these turbulent months, 44 people in Canada would lose their lives, including three health care workers.