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Playbook

Inner worlds unfold in Anne Michaels’ new poem

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Time to Talk

Helen Walsh has an answer to political polarization and crisis: genuine conversation

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Duddy and Me

Ted Kotcheff made almost 20 movies during his career - but it was a pair of small films that really got critics to take notice

Sarah Polley.

The Stories She Tells

Filmmaker Sarah Polley's advice for students who want to get into the movie business? Just do it

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It Happened One Night

For Tanya Koivusalo and Adam Nayman, it was a “blockbuster” beginning for a slow and steady romance

Madeleine Bisson

Spontaneous Success

Learning to stay in the moment gave Madeleine Bisson the key to great improv acting - and to her first film role.

Supreme Court justices Michael Moldaver (BA 1968 UC, LLB 1971) and Andromache Karakatsanis (BA 1978 Vic)

Holding Court

Last fall, two U of T grads were appointed to the nation's highest court

William B. Davis

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William B. Davis, who played Cigarette Smoking Man, doesn't believe in conspiracy theories. But most of his fans do

Donald Ainslie

Thinking Small

Philosophy prof Donald Ainslie will champion interactive group learning as principal of U of T’s largest college

Justin Rutledge.

Tales from a Troubadour

Justin Rutledge talks about the art of writing lyrics, working with Michael Ondaatje and surviving cat attacks

Joy Fielding

The Ties That Bind

Joy Fielding explores a tangled mother-daughter relationship in her new book, Now You See Her

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Funny Bones

Hart Hanson blends crime and comedy on his hit Fox TV show

The Imagined City

In her new book, writer Sarah Elton aims to put Toronto on the literary map next to New York, Dublin and Paris

Wendy Freedman

Star Turn

Wendy Freedman earns major cosmology prize for her research into the Hubble constant

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Luis Jacob

Toronto artist is one of two Canadians invited to documenta 12, a massive international art exhibition

CHICAGO, IL - JANUARY 25: Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Center for International Human Rights presented its annual Global Jurist Award to Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 during a reception and dinner in the Bluhm Legal Clinic on the Chicago campus of Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. The Global Jurist of the Year Award is granted annually to a judge in recognition of their contribution to the advancement of human rights or international law. (Photo credit: Randy Belice for Northwestern Law)

Just “Rosie”

How does Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella find time to be an author and pianist and a judge? "Every day is a gift," she says. "I do what I can to make the most of it"

Requiem for the Brave

Soldiers' Tower Committee honours two alumni for their military service during the Second World War

Ariel Garten

Fashion designer incorporates psychology into her creations

UC @ 150

University College celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2003. Here's how U of T's founding college got started and is still growing