Media Releases
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CUPE 3902 Unit 1 today rejects enhanced offer proposed and recommended by union’s bargaining team
TORONTO, ON - For the second time, CUPE 3902 Unit 1 has rejected a settlement offer proposed and recommended by CUPE 3902 Unit 1’s own bargaining team. The settlement, if accepted, would have ended the strike by teaching assistants, lab assistants, markers, graders and invigilators. “We continue to be in close contact with the Provincial Mediator and remain committed to finding a solution to this impasse that would end the strike and allow affected students to complete their academic term…
Tentative agreement between U of T and CUPE proceeds to ratification vote
TORONTO, ON - The University of Toronto is very pleased CUPE 3902 Unit 1 has agreed to let its members vote on the new tentative agreement reached between the University and CUPE on March 18. The revised offer of settlement will now proceed to the next step towards ratification, which will be a vote of all CUPE Unit 1 members over the weekend. The University encourages all CUPE members to learn more about the offer and exercise their democratic right…
“Baby Teeth Talk” study : tri-national study promotes early intervention strategies to improve Indigenous oral health
TORONTO, ON (March 20, 2015) - A first of its kind, a study funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, involving indigenous populations in Canada, Australia and New Zealand is attempting to tackle a growing problem in Indigenous populations: early childhood caries. Causing pain and often requiring treatment under general anaesthetic, early childhood caries also predispose children to ear infections as well as adult caries. Accessing care, meanwhile, often involves flying from remote communities to hospitals in more populated…
U of T and CUPE Reach New Tentative Agreement
TORONTO, ON - The University of Toronto announced that CUPE 3902 Unit 1 and the University have reached a new tentative agreement. "We are very pleased that we have reached a tentative agreement," said Professor Cheryl Regehr, the University's vice-president and provost. "The revised offer of settlement will now proceed to the next step towards ratification, which will be a meeting of CUPE members this week.” "We hope all CUPE Unit 1 members learn more about the offer, attend the…
U of T and CUPE Reach New Tentative Agreement
TORONTO, ON - The University of Toronto announced that CUPE 3902 Unit 1 and the University have reached a new tentative agreement. "We are very pleased that we have reached a tentative agreement," said Professor Cheryl Regehr, the University's vice-president and provost. "The revised offer of settlement will now proceed to the next step towards ratification, which will be a meeting of CUPE members this week.” "We hope all CUPE Unit 1 members learn more about the offer, attend the…
Winter months SAD for U.S. Treasury securities, study reveals
TORONTO, ON – The best time to invest in U.S. Treasury securities may be spring, thanks to seasonal variations in investor risk tolerance linked to depression. A team of finance researchers found that the monthly return on those securities showed an average swing of 80 basis points between October -- when returns peaked -- and April, when they bottomed out. "Maybe it seems like a small number, but in the world of Treasuries, that kind of a systematic difference is…
New ranking places U of T first in Canada, 16th in world
TORONTO, ON: The University of Toronto remains number one in Canada and jumps to 16th in the world in a prestigious ranking of universities with the best academic reputations released March 11. The fifth annual Times Higher Education’s World Reputation Rankings rates a university’s stature by asking leading academics around the globe. The results are based on an invitation-only survey that polled about 10,500 senior and published scholars from 142 countries. “U of T scholars and students are doing brilliant…
Open-source scientific research comes to Brazil
CAMPINAS, SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL— Open-access research into drug discovery has arrived in South America, with a ground-breaking collaboration between leading scientists in North America, Europe and Brazil to provide completely free and open research results to the world. A $4.3-million (USD) grant from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) plus an in-kind contribution of US$ 1.9 million by The University of Campinas (UNICAMP), totalling US$ 6,2 million, will establish Brazil’s first open-access research facility, the Protein Kinase Chemical Biology Centre at the UNICAMP in…
Agreement ratified between U of T and CUPE 3902 Local Unit 3
TORONTO, ON: The University of Toronto is pleased to advise that an agreement between the University and CUPE 3902 Unit 3 has been ratified by its members. CUPE 3902 Unit 3 represents sessional instructors, writing instructors and other short-term teaching staff. More information will be available in the coming weeks. -30- For more information, contact: U of T Media Relations 416-978-0100 media.relations@utoronto.ca
Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the 2005 World Summit Outcome at the University of Toronto
TORONTO, ON- The Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (CCR2P) is launching its campaign commemorating the 10th year anniversary since the 2005 World Summit Outcome. Entitled “R2P at Crossroads: Ten Years since the 2005 World Summit,” this campaign seeks to critically examine the normative journey of R2P in the last decade through the lens of paragraphs 138 and 139 of the World Summit Outcome, and provide a forum for discussion on the future political implementation of R2P. R2P AT…