Ford Must Go protest nears 30-day mark

As the Rob Ford Must Go sit-in at Toronto City Hall approaches 30 days of operation, the message remains clear: ‘We’re sitting until Ford goes.’

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Humber students showcase chair designs

Students and alumni came together to support the 14th Annual Humber College Chair Show at the Gladstone Hotel Tuesday.

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Toronto couple’s take on plus-size fashion

One couple’s entrepreneurial spirit and a woman’s drive to make fashion accessible to sizes 12 and up is the inspiration behind a unique Toronto store

“If you don’t like the way you look we just need to change the clothes, not you,” says Karen Ward, who runs the plus-sized clothing store, Your Big Sister’s Closet with her husband Peter Chiem.

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Toronto wants to prune tree bylaws

Toronto wants to save more trees by tightening up some of the city bylaws.

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Skedline reporters Jake English and Antonio Savoia discuss the players who could be headed to a new team before the trade deadline. Read more
Norwalk virus common during the winter

You may know someone hit by the current stomach bug wave.

It is not the flu – it’s another misunderstood common stomach ailment – the Norwalk virus.

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HSF votes cast March 10 to March 14

The Humber Students’ Federation (HSF) election season is in full swing with campaign posters already plastered around campus showcasing the candidates and their platforms.

Last year HSF saw its highest number in students voter turnout. HSF Project Coordinator Vanessa Silaphet says 6,6609 students voted, which represents 23.8 per cent of the student population. That is higher than the 5,578 who voted in the 2012 elections.

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Wearing niqab usually a personal choice, study reveals

In a new study released by Concordia professor Professor Lynda Clarke and the Canadian Council of Muslim Women, niqab-wearing women reveal that they are very rarely coerced into taking up the practice and are willing to remove the veil for identification purposes.

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Claudia Chan and Ryan MacEvoy McCullough will play Noema and John Adams’s Hallelujah Junction at the amphitheatre in the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, to kick off the month of March in the Canadian Opera Company’s Free Concert Series.

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