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Pedal Really Means Power at Hart House

The prototype sustainable power plant that University of Toronto Professor Olivier Trescases (ECE) is demonstrating doesn’t look like much. A simple black-box battery connected by clips to red and yellow wires that go to a decades-old electricity meter, then by…

eBay Founder Makes List of Canada’s Most Rich and Powerful

Jeffrey Skoll (ElecE 8T7), the Montreal-born founding president of Internet auction house eBay, has been named by the CBC as one of Canada’s richest and most powerful Canadians. Skoll has signed the Giving Pledge, promising to donate to charity half…

Hey Kids, How About a Vocation Vacation?

For Jennifer Porat, summer camp isn’t about s’mores and canoe trips. It’s about creating a runway collection and learning about the fashion industry. This August, Jennifer, 13, and her younger sister are returning to a two-week day camp called CraftyCouture…

Canadian Supercomputers Assigned their Homework on Global Problems

Compute Canada, a national platform of advanced computing resources across the country, has announced the largest ever awards of supercomputing resources to researchers working in areas from biomedicine and brain function to aircraft and aviation fuel design. These competitively-awarded grants…
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