Walk on the Wild Side
In 1976, a strange band of characters jostled their way up St. George Street with beat-up blackboards and battered chairs
Innis College
A View to Making Toronto Stronger
Kofi Hope wants to add new voices to the conversation about city-building
A Scholar Who Spoke Up for an Entire People
The question of a Kurdish homeland was central to Prof. Amir Hassanpour’s life and career
The Struggle Is Real
Filmmaker Maureen Judge’s latest project captures stories of millennials venturing out on their own
The High Cost of a Home
Faculty and students at Toronto’s four universities will work together to seek answers to the city’s housing crisis
From Shy to Shining
A YWCA Toronto Women of Distinction Award winner reflects on a pivotal first-year program at U of T
60 Seconds With Jean Yoon
Queen of the corner store
Making a Murderer
A small-screen adaptation of Alias Grace starring alumna Sarah Gadon will air this fall
Innis’s Cinema Paradiso
Innis College celebrates the reopening of Town Hall's new state-of-the-art-theatre
Connecting through Film
The Toronto International Film Festival’s Reel Comfort program helps make those connections available to clients in mental-health programs
Degrassi Creator Gives Back
Linda Schuyler’s $1-million gift to U of T celebrates cinema
Objects of Salvation
In the trenches the only criteria for alarm devices were that they be loud and distinctive – but as a bonus, rattles didn’t require use of the lungs
“Innis Was My Oasis”
Mark Weisdorf took no classes at Innis, but the college's Town Hall became the heart of his U of T community
Vision of Canada
Harold Innis’s fur trade research in the summer of 1924 launched a celebrated academic career
Boundless Promise
A long family history at the university encouraged this couple to create a new scholarship
Diplomatic Frontier
Mark McDowell is Canada’s first ambassador to Myanmar
Uncomforted
Second World War rape survivors still call for apology
60 Seconds with Linda Schuyler
Lisa Bryn Rundle talks with Degrassi co-creator on teaching and television
Forest Warrior
Charlotte Gill reminisces about life as a professional tree planter
Searching for Guan Yin
Sarah Truman travelled across China looking for the Bodhisattva of compassion. What she experienced was a change inside herself
Urban Explorer
Torontoist editor Hamutal Dotan seeks out stories from the underground
60 Seconds With Cass Enright
The founder of the Golden Tap Awards is hopped up on Ontario's specialty breweries
Rock Star Lawyer
Erika Savage is helping to pioneer a new kind of recording contract at Universal Music Group
Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller
Economist Jeff Rubin's new book contemplates life after the Oil Age
Screen Saver
Film savvy helped Brett Hendrie land one of Hot Docs’ top jobs
Fungi Magic
Director Ron Mann pays homage to an unusual obsession
Seamstress to the Kings
Innis alumna suits up Elvis tribute artists
My Generation
Twixters take on 20-something stereotypes
60 Seconds With Jessi Cruickshank
A Q&A with the MTV Canada host
Toxic Trespass
Documentary film investigates the chemical soup around us
Smart Girls Writing Something Catch the Eye at Once – for Alison
Carleton Wilson's poem placed first in U of T Magazine's Alumni Short Story and Writing Contest
$75-Million Campaign for Pain
Wasser Centre aims to become a world leader in patient-based pain management
Rhodes Scholar an Anti-Violence Advocate
Kofi Hope founded the Black Youth Coalition Against Violence
Cinema Studies Turns 30
Producer Robert Lantos helps Innis mark milestone by chairing the college's $7-million fundraising campaign
The Spirit of Sacrifice
Award is granted annually to a female Innis student who contributes the most to the community
Spirit in the Sky
Innis grad founds First Nations theatre company
Stranger Music
Two alumni push musical boundaries
Jennifer Smith
This marketing whiz made a smart call on the Dummies books
Sharon Lewis
Playwright doesn't see art and politics as separate entities
Samuel Chow
Artist and activist tackles racism and homophobia
Eco-Odyssey
Filmmaker Ron Mann chronicles Woody Harrelson's hemp-fuelled journey down U.S. West Coast
Silver-Screen Scribes at Innis
Cinema Studies to get its first Screenwriter in Residence
Drama Queens
Krista Sutton, Jean Yoon, Kim Gaynor, Elvira Kurt and Kate Taylor
Good Eggs
Maliha Chishti, Bhante Saranapala, Jim O'Mara, Lesra Martin, Bindu Dhaliwal and Duff Conacher