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Independence Day

The Independent Weekly celebrates 25 years

Lying on the U.C. Playhouse theatre floor during a warm-up, Thompson thought, "OK, this is where I belong"

"Being an actor is like being at university. It opens your mind and your soul and make you tap into yourself."

Life lessons learned in sport

English majors met each other on stage

Friends vied for the campus spotlight as student activists in the 1960s

AGO curator embraces range of art, from popular to esoteric

1941 grad finally receives award she won more than 60 years earlier

Alumni have been the life blood behind Doctors Without Borders

Since leaving tax law, David Ben has become one of the world's greatest sleight-of-hand artists

Krista Sutton, Jean Yoon, Kim Gaynor, Elvira Kurt and Kate Taylor

Avi Lewis, Nora Young and Ruby Bhatia

Rachel Tyndale, Vincent Tropepe, Deborah Fels, Shaf Keshavjee, Ed Doolittle, Akiko Iwasaki

Kenneth Oppel, Andrew Pyper, Lynn Crosbie, Cristina Kuok, David Layton and Tim Long

More than a decade ago, a bunch of U of T characters began to dine from A to Z using the Yellow Pages as a restaurant guide

(BA 1936 University College, MA 1937, LLD Hon. 1977)

The inspiration for the fanciful novels of Guy Gavriel Kay and Caroline Roe sprang from the U of T campus