This is the air I breathe,
Your holy presence living in me
This is my daily bread,
This is my daily bread,
Your very word spoken to me
and I, I’m desperate for you,
and I, I’m lost without you . . .

The haloed heads of apostles look down on us in the brick chapel, which is painted cream and pastel blue and green. Barely translucent in the dank dawn gloom, stained glass portraits celebrate intrepid evangelists such as Charles Inglis of Nova Scotia and Edmund James Peck, “the first Anglican missionary to devote his life to the Eskimo.”

There is lusty singing of “What a Friend We Have in Jesus,” a Circle of Blessing ringing a couple whose of strangers’ hands, the taking of wafers and wine and an excitement of thunder during a reading from Romans 2:17.

Apart from the multiracial, multilingual assortment of students and others in the pews, it might be 1891, when Wycliffe College moved to this sturdy edifice. (The college was founded 14 years earlier “to prepare men of evangelical conviction for the Anglican ministry,” according to the historical plaque outside.) But this is the 21st century, and “Wine Before Breakfast,” like the university that enfolds and encircles it, attracts a much wider crowd.

Among the ardent worshippers is Beatrice S.* She is a fourth-year student of mechanical engineering specializing in robotics, and a Chinese-Canadian originally from Montreal. Like many students, she is deeply interested not only in science, but the state of her own soul.

“I was raised as atheist,” Beatrice says, and then quickly adds: “I shouldn’t say that! My parents were raised in the Taoist tradition, but as an intellectual family, I guess our position was that God was no longer relevant. In high school, I saw religion as at best a tool to stay sane, and at worst a crutch for the weak-minded.”

Yet here she is today, in the Wycliffe chapel, singing “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour.” I ask about her own passage to piety and she says, “For me, it was a process that led to a moment. It all comes down to one question: do you believe that it is possible that Jesus Christ rose from the dead?

“I mean, either Jesus is speaking the truth, or He’s an incredible liar. For most of my scientist peers, that’s ridiculous – in science, everything is based on laws. Because we’ve never seen anything violate those laws, that’s how science evolved. And one of the laws is that the dead don’t rise.

“The definitive moment came in a Greek mythology course – how nerdy, right? We were discussing Bacchus and the professor drew an analogy between Bacchus and Christ and said ‘He’s just like Christ.’ At that moment, I personally identified with Christ and I realized that Jesus stood for everything that’s diametrically opposed to Bacchus.

“I had never known such joy as the joy of that moment. Every cell in my body felt like it was going to explode.”

So that was how it happened.

“You can’t come to a rational conclusion that Christ was the son of God,” says Beatrice. “But if you pray, and your prayers are answered, can you accept that as proof?”

AT A QUARTER PAST TEN, NOUMAN Ashraf (BCom 2002 St. Michael’s, MBA 2006) and I sneak into what soon will be the Multifaith Centre in the Koffler Institute for Pharmacy Management on Spadina Avenue, though “sneak” may be the wrong term, considering Ashraf ’s commanding presence in full beard, smart business suit and brilliantly shiny shoes.

Ashraf is the Anti-Racism and Cultural Diversity Officer of a university whose ecclesiastic alphabet once began and ended with “A” for Anglican, but whose spires now look down on everything from Ahmadis to Zenists. (Ashraf calls the multiplicity of religions on campus “the invisible diversity.”) Hence the construction of the Multi-Faith Centre for Spiritual Practice and Study, whose mandate is to provide a space where anyone of any creed (or no creed) can practise, preach or pray.

Ashraf says the centre “isn’t just going to be a place where people meditate. This isn’t a moral United Nations or a spiritual G7, but a place where people who are interested in this aspect of student life will find an outlet.”

An elevator white with gypsum dust lifts us to the central hall, which is to be a light-filled chamber free of any overt symbol of any particular sect. Ashraf says the new building is meant to encourage a mingling of minds that otherwise would scatter to their respective chapels, gurdwaras, ashrams, mosques and shuls. He points out the panels that will recess to reveal alcoves that display the deity, idol or iconography of whichever creed is using the room, then hide it when another sect’s service begins.

“We’re a secular institution that is publicly funded,” Ashraf asserts. “We’re not pro-spirituality or anti spirituality. This building allows our students to not only develop their relationship with the space, but also to articulate this relationship with that space. We don’t want to prejudge what that will look like.”

JUST BEFORE NOON, MAGED METIAS, a mechanical engineering student from Pickering, Ontario, meets me on the steps of the Galbraith Building. Metias is a communicant of the Coptic Orthodox creed, an ancient branch of Christianity – established by the apostle Mark in AD 42 – that counts about 40 sons and daughters at the university. We talk about the duties of his sect and the contest of science and faith. “In engineering,” he says, “there’s the law that says that matter cannot be created or destroyed. But we believe that God created the universe. That means there is a flaw in one of the two laws. I think the flaw is in science, because man made the science.”

“Can you be an engineer and still believe that Jesus walked on water?” I ask. “If the Bible said he walked on water,” says Metias, “he walked on water.” Metias reaches into his backpack and produces a well-worn copy of The Agpeya, the prayer book of the seven canonical hours. He notes that while observant Jews pray three times a day and Muslims five, the Coptic Orthodox lead the league with seven: prime, terce, sext, none, vespers, compline and midnight.

I wonder how he views the secular swirl of campus life, and how he relates to students who are as devoted as he is, but to a different creed. “When you come to view other religions,” Metias says, “I think you can ask questions but you wouldn’t find acomplete answer. If you ask a question to a Buddhist or a Sikh, I’m sure they would have an incomplete answer. What I find in my religion is complete.

“I don’t want to say that it all makes sense, because there are mysteries. For example, we believe the bread and wine is Christ. I guess my question in general is, why don’t people ask questions about their own religion?”

I ask Metias if, given his devotion, he might pursue life as a Coptic Orthodox (non-celibate) priest. “Our priests are chosen by committee,” he smiles, “And you don’t even know why they chose you. If they ever came to me, I’d say no. But that doesn’t mean they’d stop asking.”

SARAH VAJDIK IS DASHING FROM psychology to math. She is a soft-spoken woman of Czech descent from Chatham, Ontario, where her father’s father helped to build the Roman Catholic church of St. Anthony of Padua.

Vajdik, 26, already holds a degree in history from the University of Ottawa and a master’s of public history from the University of Western Ontario. She is at U of T to complete the one-year course that leads to a bachelor of education, and to pursue with almost startling constancy the faith of her fathers.

It is 12:15, and bells, not thunder, are pealing above the Gothic arches and dark wood vaults of the St. Thomas Aquinas Church on Hoskin Avenue. Vajdik, a “cradle Catholic” with an hour between classes, is right on time for Mass. As she always is, seven days a week.

“I missed one Mass when I was young,” she says. “I had a very high fever, but somebody came to our house and brought me Communion. Then, when I was an undergrad in Ottawa, I was very sick and I stayed home in the morning because I thought there was a Mass in the evening. But there wasn’t, and I was devastated.”

And that was the only Sunday in her entire remembered life that she did not go to church.

“You lead the NHL in attendance!” I tell her.

“It’s not a scorecard,” Vajdik says. “But people do have different things that are important to them.”

For Vajdik – and the six other Newman Centre residents who have been designated student campus ministers – religion is not merely a wafer and wine. “There are moments,” Vajdik says, “when you’re going through something and you’re tested, but I know that I’m not searching. I feel very grounded in my faith.”

Vajdik notes with amusement that most people assume that the student campus ministers all are on the path to becoming priests and nuns. It is true that a room at Newman opened up for her because one student left for the seminary, but the fact is that Vajdik chose Toronto, as she puts it, “for a guy.”

That relationship ended, but Vajdik isn’t ready for the nunnery quite yet. She spends her hours studying, praying, shepherding a dozen or so students through the Rites of Christian Initiation for Adults and cleaning the St. Thomas Aquinas Church, an act that she calls “Vacuuming for Jesus, or Cleaning for Christ.”

“People look at me like I’m bizarre,” Vajdik admits. “Back in high school, they knew that I was different. They used to say, ‘Hey churchy – you’re going to be a nun!’ But then when people had problems, even my friends who didn’t have faith would come and say, ‘Sarah, would you pray for me?’”

AARON SILVER IS WEARING A YARMULKE when we meet in the early afternoon, which is pretty much the same as carrying a sign that says, “Look, everybody! I’m Jewish!”

We’re in a coffee shop on Harbord Street, across from the Wolfond Centre for Jewish Campus Life, where he often goes to say mincha, the midday prayer, when his class schedule allows. Silver is a 19-year-old from Calgary, a first-year student majoring in economics. He’s a little older than many of his classmates because he took last year off to work on a kibbutz in Israel and to ride with an ambulance corps as an emergency medical technician. He is a self-described “modern Orthodox” Jew – no black hat, no black suit, no tasselled prayer shawl hanging out of his jacket. But Silver adheres to a strictly kosher diet, observes his faith’s myriad holidays and festivals, and has arranged not to have any classes on Friday afternoons as the holy Sabbath begins.

I ask him if he has had much contact with people of other faiths since arriving in this great poly-cultural city. He replies that there is a certain (rather attractive) Roman Catholic girl in his English class with whom he has been having “not a debate – more of a conversation” about their respective belief systems.

“I know that some Christians believe that you are doomed to hell if you don’t accept Jesus Christ as the Messiah,” he says. “That’s not something that we believe – we don’t say that you’re doomed to hell if you don’t believe in the same God that we believe in. I have no problem with other people and other faiths.” I ask about his career plans, and he says that he’d like to become a lawyer. But this is far from certain. “I don’t know where I’ll be in four years,” says Silver. “But I guarantee you I’ll be an Orthodox Jew.”

AT THE PRESCRIBED HOUR FOR DHUHR – after the sun has crossed the meridian, but before the saying of Asr – 30 Muslim men and a smaller number of women slip quietly into a rotunda on the Bahen Centre’s ground floor, nearthe back door by the Mega Bites Café.

Dhuhr is the second of five daily prayer sessions; taken together, these form one of the Five Pillars of Sunni Islam. (The others are fasting, alms-giving, a pilgrimage to Mecca and the profession of faith in one God and His prophet.) The makeshift mosque at Bahen, with its many large windows, serves as both sanctuary and fishbowl; everyone entering or leaving the building can watch the prayer-givers as they kneel, stand and bow.

Most of the women are in long skirts and head scarves; one is veiled but for a small slit at the eyes. The men, by comparison, are dressed in the customary collegiate fashion, which means running shoes, baggy pants and sweatshirts by Ecko and Enyce.

Then there is Tarik Abdulla, age 17. He is a first-year engineering student; a brown-haired, brown-eyed Somali by way of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Abdulla is wearing jeans with the cuffs rolled up, a flamboyant orange plaid shirt and a bright red New York Yankees baseball cap worn, as I suppose one must when one is 17, backward, with the label still affixed.

“It is part of our belief,” he tells me when Dhuhr has been completed, “five times a day to offer prayers to our God, Allah. As human beings, when you look at how much God has given us, five minutes or 10 minutes five times a day is not much to give back. Those who do not pray are negligent, and we have the right to instruct them. They are like Christians who do not attend church on Sundays. It is sad.”

With Abdulla is his friend Nihad Nasim, another first-year engineering student from the United Arab Emirates. I ask Nasim if he is surprised to find a place for Muslim worship on campus, and he replies, “No, because there are churches over here and we are not a minority like 10 years ago.”

I wonder how much contact the young Arabs have had with classmates of varying faiths. Abdulla says he has met some Jewish students and that everyone seems to get along. When I ask about the Western girls who stride past the prayer space, decidedly not veiled or enshrouded, he shakes his curly head and says, “Well, you can control your eyes.”

FOUR O’CLOCK IN THE BASEMENT OF Knox College – beyond the banner that proclaims “Faith Matters.” I’m with the ecumenical chaplain, trying to make sense of what I’ve heard.

“Most students are searching,” says Rev. Ralph Carl Wushke (ThM 2004). “But not all are searching for religion and spirituality. They might be searching for friendship, for human community in a very big city, for intimacy, for relationships – sexual included. In my view, those all are spiritual matters.”

Wushke sees a renaissance of religion on campus, and by this he does not mean the Knox College of a half-century ago, when the graduating class was made up exclusively of clean-shaven white men.

The ecumenical chaplain himself, who is a well-known queer activist and energetic left-wing agitator, rather triumphantly breaks the mould of the old Gothic campus and the old Christian mores. But he is not alone. “What I see now,” he tells me, “are about 1,300 students in theological studies – a lot of people very keen to go to chapel, keen to preach, keen to sing hymns. At Emmanuel College, they have the biggest incoming class of Master’s of Divinity students in several years.

“One of the delightful things that I have experienced, in the Bible Studies classes that I offer, is to see students from the natural sciences, from biology and physics, who treasure the opportunity to spend an hour and a half, a couple of times a week, away from the lab. These people can talk about string theory, but they also have a profound and deep interest in talking about God and God’s purpose in their life.” “One speaks of a resurgence of religion,” Wushke says. “There is a deep spiritual longing, but that doesn’t necessarily mean traditional religion.”

And he gives me the name of Adam Awad.

ADAM AWAD, WHEN I MEET HIM AT A Starbucks on Bay Street at 7:30 p.m., turns out to be a one-man multifaith centre: a Lebanese-Canadian Buddhist Sikh who was raised as a Roman Catholic in Ottawa.

Awad, 20, is combining his studies in Middle Eastern history and politics with an avidity for circus arts. He hopes to earn his degree, work as a dancer or acrobat in the Cirque du Soleil for a while, and then enter the diplomatic service.

If this is not enough to distinguish him from the bulk of the student body, he spent part of his teenage years as a practicing witch. All of this, he says, is part of the process of self-discovery open to everyone in Canada.

“When I was around 13 or so,” he says, “I started exploring spirituality. The first transition was to a sort of Wicca witchcraft pagan spirituality. At first, my parents were frightened – I’m the youngest of four children, and the worst thing they ever had to deal with before this was my brother acting out in class. Then here’s me coming out as a gay witch!

“Now, I’m in a strange mix between Buddhism and Sikhism. I guess what I’m trying to show is that there are multiple paths to God. I don’t think I’ve ever looked at another religion and said, ‘That’s a wrong way to approach spirituality.’”

“Five years from now, do you think you’ll be a Lutheran?” I ask him. “Or have you found it?”

“I could never imagine myself committing to one single path because one path doesn’t define modern life,” Awad replies. “I couldn’t see myself being a devout anything.”

I tell him about Sarah Vajdik and the other people I’ve met on campus who are so unflinchingly certain of their faith. They seem quite different from Awad, who doesn’t wear a turban or carry a ceremonial kirpan, who cut his hair short last spring (unlike observant Sikhs) and who doesn’t exactly go around Toronto in saffron robes.

“I really hope it’s a personal choice and it works for them,” Awad says. “I hope they really find what they are looking for.” “I don’t look at religion as a mantle, as an outfit we put on,” he continues. “It’s the threads that make the outfit. A lot of my beliefs affect the way I look at human suffering. My fondest belief is that, yes, we can all get along, but it’s not achievable right now.”

I congratulate him on his thoughtfulness and commitment to self-awareness. “Well,” he smiles, “I don’t think about these things all the time. I’m in mid-terms right now!”

THE FINAL MEETING OF A LONG, LONG day is a quiet one, alone with a true believer in a plain-walled room.

This is the Eckankar Centre on Yorkville Avenue, toward closing time. Peter Skrivanic, 35, who is studying medical anthropology at U of T Scarborough, is telling me about the smallest congregation at the university, that of the Religion of the Light and Sound of God. Eckankar, which adherents believe is an ancient creed revived in the 1960s by an American named Paul Twitchell, focuses on dreams, chanting, karma and reincarnation. But only a couple of people on campus have embraced it.

“We’re not one of the Big Three, that’s for sure,” Skrivanic admits. “But if we look at something from a numbers game, that’s not coming from the right place. There’s no need to renounce in Eckankar. If someone can use a tool and make them a better Catholic, that’s fine. There is one God and God is One, but if not, OK, there’s two!”

Through the walls, suddenly and hauntingly, comes a long, low moan: “huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu . . .”

These are other Eckists in the next satsang down the hall, performing Eckankar’s signature one-word spiritual exercise, “Love Song to God.” Twelve hours ago, it was “What a Friend We Have in Jesus,” and now this. “I will often chant that for 10 minutes before going to bed,” Skrivanic says, basking in the a cappella tone. “I find that it increases the probability of having dreams with spiritual content.”

So this is the end of the journey: a religion for everyone that permits everyone to keep his or her own religion. Perfect, perhaps, for the most diverse congregation in the most diverse city the human race has ever constructed.

“Not long ago,” the true believer tells me, “I went to the campus chaplains’ lunch. I was sitting at a table with a Sikh, a Humanist, a Wiccan and an Evangelical Christian. “And I thought, when you look at the world at large, ‘Wow, this is a miracle!’”

*last name omitted by request

Allen Abel is a freelance writer based in Toronto.

Canada is unique among western democracies in its constitutional commitment to multiculturalism – a commitment that has worked extraordinarily well in practice. In our large cities, many cultures live peacefully with one another. One need only watch World Cup soccer in Toronto to testify to the city’s cultural diversity. Bystanders are welcomed and invited to join Ghanaians, French, Italians, Portuguese and Koreans, who take to the streets to wave flags in celebration. At its best, multiculturalism in Canada is inclusive, rather than exclusionary.

Despite extraordinary successes, the Canadian commitment to multiculturalism is being tested in unexpected ways. A resurgence of orthodoxy in Christianity, Islam and Judaism is sharpening lines of division between “them” and “us.” Canadians are uncertain about what limits, if any, there are to embedding diverse religious as well as cultural traditions within the Canadian context. We know pretty well what the “multi” in multicultural means, but are much less confident about “culture.” Does culture in Canada mean just a respect for pluralism and difference? Or, is there more? Have we produced a broader set of shared values that must, at some point, bump up against the diversity and difference that we celebrate as an important part of who we are?

There is a sniff of smugness in our celebration of our successes as a multicultural society. That smugness, a culturally sanctioned political correctness, is becoming less acceptable as real divisions creep into the debate about cultural and religious difference. How far can respect for difference go? When does it constrain freedom of expression? That issue boiled over when a Danish newspaper published cartoons that Muslims considered defamatory. Anti-Semitic cartoons have provoked similar debates. Does freedom of expression permit one group to insult and stereotype another? And when does stereotyping subtly become incitement to hatred?

These questions are not important if multiculturalism is largely restricted to the celebration of song, dance, literature, language and food. It is this kind of celebration that is the stuff of the official multiculturalism policy in Canada’s large cities. On one July afternoon in Toronto, for example, residents could choose between the Corso Italia Toronto Fiesta and Afrofest.

We are on far more difficult terrain when we ask more serious questions about traditions of the church – and synagogue and mosque – and the state. How committed are we in Canada to the secularization of public space? Do we welcome multiple religious symbols in public squares in December or do we ban them all? How far can religious practice and celebration extend into public space? To what extent will the state, in the service of the freedom of religion, continue to allow churches, synagogues and mosques to uphold policies that have an impact on the fundamental rights of Canadians? And can public officials refuse to perform certain duties because of private religious beliefs? To the surprise of many Canadians who come from quite different ends of the political spectrum, the relationship between equality rights and the right to freedom of religion is now on the public agenda.

In Canada, we would not think of enforcing restrictions against Hebrew skullcaps, Christian crosses or Muslim hijabs in our public schools. On the contrary, we celebrate almost everyone’s religious and national holidays. Where we are reluctant to go, however, is the conflict between the universal human rights that we treasure and different religious and cultural traditions. One obvious fault line – one that we tiptoe around – is the rights of women in different religious and cultural traditions in our midst.

Women in Canada are guaranteed equal treatment and an equal voice in the determination of our shared vision of the common good. We respect rights and we respect diversity, but at times the two compete. How do we mediate these disputes? What to do about private religious schools, for example, that meet government criteria by teaching the official curriculum but segregate women in separate classrooms? Should universities make space available to student groups that segregate women in worship? The University of Toronto allows religious organizations to determine how they use the space they are given for prayer. Currently, Jewish and Islamic services separate men from women in religious services held on campus. McGill University in Montreal, by contrast, maintains that as a non-denominational university, it is not obligated to provide prayer space for any religious group.

These questions are not abstract, but very personal to me. When I challenged my rabbi recently about his long-standing refusal to give women in my congregation the right to participate fully and equally in religious services, he argued: “I have not taken the position of ‘separate but equal,’ although I believe that a case can be made for this perspective. I have not argued for a fully egalitarian expression of Judaism, although I believe that a case can be made for this perspective. Instead, I have pressed for increased inclusion.”

Indeed, under his leadership our congregation now permits a greater degree of involvement for women in daily services, in public readings and in leading parts of the liturgy. These are far more than cosmetic changes, but to me, as significant as these changes are, they are not enough. Women are still not counted as part of the 10 people who must be present before prayers can begin. Only men count. I have had the extraordinary experience of sitting in a chapel and watching the leader of prayers count the men in the room, his eyes sliding over me as he counted. For all intents and purposes, not only did I not count, I was invisible.

Contrary to my rabbi, I do not think that any argument at all can be made for separate but equal treatment. This kind of argument has a long and inglorious history of discrimination that systematically disadvantages some part of a community. Nor is it obvious why greater inclusion should be capped short of full status, where women count as equals in constituting a prayer group. What principle is at work here? Even though the charter strictly applies only to public space, I take its spirit and its values seriously.

My religious obligation clashes openly and directly with values that I hold deeply as a Canadian. Fortunately, there are Jewish congregations in Toronto that are fully egalitarian. My cultural and religious community is sufficiently pluralistic that I can choose among a wide variety of options. A resolution of my personal dilemma is available to me – I canvote with my feet – but the issue is public as well as private.

These religious institutions that systemically discriminate against women are recognized, at least implicitly, by governments. They enjoy special tax privileges given to them by governments. Religious institutions do not pay property tax and most receive charitable status from the federal government. If religious institutions, for example, are able to raise funds more easily because governments give a tax benefit to those who contribute, are religious practices wholly private even when they benefit from the public purse? Are discriminatory religious practices against women a matter only for religious law, as is currently the case under Canadian law which protects freedom of religion as a charter right? Or should the equality rights of the charter have some application when religious institutions are officially recognized and advantaged in fundraising? Does it matter that the Catholic Church, which has special entitlements given to it by the state and benefits from its charitable tax status, refuses to ordain women as priests?

How can we in Canada, in the name of religious freedom, continue furtively and silently to sanction discriminatory practices? This issue was at the core of the debate in Ontario about Shariah law and Orthodox Jewish courts within the framework of state-sanctioned arbitration. I have deliberately chosen a personal issue – the issue of women’s participation in religious services in my own synagogue – to open up this difficult discussion of the desirable balance between the right to freedom of religion and other charter rights. Some would urge silence and patience until a new social consensus emerges, until we rebalance. Opening difficult conversations too early can fracture communities, inflict deep wounds and do irreversible damage to those who are most open to experimentation. In my own congregation, I have been counselled for the last five years to be patient. Give it time, I’m told, and the synagogue will become fully egalitarian.

I find it hard to be patient into the indefinite future, with no commitments from my religious leadership. I worry that change will stall unless we keep a civil but difficult conversation going. There is no question that there is a conflict between equality rights, on the one hand, and the right to freedom of religion, on the other. The law recognizes that conflict, but we need to ask hard questions about the appropriate balance. If I am expected to be patient, almost endlessly patient, then religious leaders must be cognizant of the responsibilities of their organizations that receive charitable status and public benefit to engage with Canadian culture as it is expressed in our most fundamental laws.

Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and director of the Munk Centre for International Studies. This article is adapted from a longer essay about multiculturalism that appeared in the September issue of the Literary Review of Canada.

Not so with U of T’s devoted crop of 2006 Arbor Award winners, all of whom lead lives they enjoy, largely because of their virtuousness – not despite it. The awards, now in their 17th year, honour alumni and friends of the university whose volunteer efforts support many valuable programs.

As is typical, this year’s winners – all 100 of them – are a diverse group, motivated to see an already effective university live up to its own considerable standards. As winner Susan Eng notes: “I used to think they wouldn’t need me here. But when you get closer, you realize that even a very good university can always improve.”

In addition to successful careers, the seven Arbor Award winners profiled here possess community-building experience that extends beyond their commitment to U of T. Accordingly, they have valuable lessons to teach alumni who may want to get involved in volunteering, but aren’t sure of the best way to go about it.

Bill Ostrander, for example, stresses the importance of social networking. Verna and Jim Webb are models of inclusion and friendship. Susan Eng’s focus is accountability, and asking hard questions. George Mowbray reminds us of the need to respect the past, while Bonnie Stern and Raymond Rupert are caretakers of the future. From all of them we learn that doing good, more than anything else, means doing.

Verna and Jim Webb

Jim and Verna Webb are co-treasurers of Trinity's Friends of the Library Committee

It couldn’t happen without Verna and Jim Webb (BA 1965 UC, MA 1969, PhD 1972).

The retired schoolteachers act as co-treasurers of Trinity’s Friends of the Library committee. Over the course of the year they are involved in most aspects of the sale’s myriad needs: pricing, sorting books into more than 60 academic and popular categories, hauling boxes, setting up tables and communicating with the hundreds of volunteers who make the sale run smoothly. After the money is counted (last year’s sale reaped $125,000, all of it designated for Trinity’s library), the Webbs occupy themselves with the dispersal of leftover books to dealers or other interested parties. In the eight years since they first got involved, their infectious camaraderie has attracted many likeminded helpers to the task.

“You just have to be welcoming, make people feel included,” says Verna, whose Tuesday sorting group is a model of relaxed conviviality (complete with birthday cake, when called for). The Webbs were brought on board by Jim’s former colleague Charles Laver, who’s worked on the sale for 28 of the event’s 31 years. Friendship and word-of-mouth are the twin engines on which this massive undertaking runs. “Books come from many different sources,” says Jim. “Retired professors, members of the Friends of the Library, friends of members of the Friends of the Library…. You never know where the next treasure will come from.”

Jim attended University College, although the Webbs’ son Todd (who now teaches history at Laurentian University in Sudbury) graduated from Trinity in 1997. The whole family, of course, loves books, with a taste for history and biographies. Do they avail themselves of the many books on offer? “We’re trying not to buy many more at this stage,” laughs Verna. “Our house would sink!”

George Mowbray

George Mowbray, a writer and former economist, is on a mission to foster dreams

Mowbray, the son of an electrical engineer, started corporate writing while working as a management consultant in 1959. Sixteen years ago his friend, engineer Bob Moore, asked if he would help write the text for the plaques. Mowbray made sure his portraits were truly holistic, capturing scientific accomplishments as well as achievements in fields such as music, politics and business. “The university can claim to have turned out people who’ve been able to apply the lessons they learned in engineering in many other ways,” says Mowbray.

It’s important for Mowbray to show students not just what the engineers have done, but their path to success, using colourful and compelling language. He writes that Murray Willer’s career was, like many engineers of his age, “hardened by the fires of the Second World War.”

“These are development stories,” says Mowbray, that show “how the engineer develops from his or her early days into a highly productive member of society. How they got there is an important part of the story.”

Mowbray’s father graduated from U of T in 1915, and some of his children and grandchildren are graduates as well. Involvement with family is but one of many ways the 82-year-old stays active. “I do this work, about a day on each award, to make a grateful contribution to the university,” he says, adding that a favourite quote from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sums up why he does it: “Lives of great men all remind us/We can make our lives sublime/and, departing, leave behind us/Footprints on the sands of time.”

Bonnie Stern and Raymond Rupert

For Raymond Rupert and Bonnie Stern, food plays a central role in their involvement with U of T

Stern will tell you that she was hardly bossy while at New College. “I was so quiet that one time I asked a question in a tutorial and everybody clapped,” she says. She planned to be a librarian, but a postgraduate stint studying cooking put an end to that idea: she is now one of Canada’s most celebrated cookbook authors, and owner of the prestigious Toronto culinary school that bears her name.

Her community work has been similarly impressive, and includes fundraising for New College and sitting on the University of Toronto Alumni Association’s board of directors. When Stern heard about U of T’s Alumni Mentorship Program, she knew it would be the perfect way for her husband to mark his own return to the university.

In addition to his medical degree, Rupert holds an MBA from the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management. He is both a family doctor and “case manager,” acting as a gobetween for patients with complex medical problems, who often find themselves caught in a confusing labyrinth of experts. Under his tutelage, students learn lessons in management as well as medicine. “Students come and act as my shadow,” says Rupert. “I’ll give them a challenge and let them work it out.” This way, students can see what medicine or management is like before they commit to entering it.

Food plays a central role in the couple’s U of T involvement. Rupert likes to create a relaxed atmosphere for his mentees, planning initial meetings over dim sum in an uptown restaurant, sometimes with the couple’s three grown children in tow. And for a recent fundraiser at New College,Stern put on a “food trends presentation,” showcasing the evolution of the food scene in Toronto from the time of her graduation (“there were barely any restaurants then”) to the multicultural gastronomy of today. There are other food-centred plans, one of which may see new students invited to the Stern/Rupert house for a home-cooked meal. The kitchen is also an area where Rupert is called on to participate. “I chop and peel,” he says. “But she’s the star.”

William Ostrander

William Ostrander helps raise funds for the Sexual Diversity Studies program

Established in 1998, the Sexual Diversity Studies (SDS) program offers undergraduate courses, hosts academic and community events, and promotes research into sexuality. Its activities will now accelerate thanks to a million-dollar donation from Bonham, the president and CEO of Stoney Ridge Estate Winery. Bonham, who attended University College, previously worked with Ostrander on Toronto’s Inside Out Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival, and served on the SDS advisory committee (of which Ostrander is now chair). Bonham’s donation will help the program with initiatives such as a graduate program and a regular academic conference.

A resource like this hardly seemed possible in the early 1970s, when Ostrander was a student at Victoria College. He was involved in many activities at school, but suffered from feelings of isolation. “I was completely closeted,” he says. “I did not know any other gay people. It severely affected my academic performance, and I had long periods of depression where I was unable to complete any academic work at all.”

Today, however, things are different – certainly at the university level. “There’s still homophobia in our society, but it’s not very prevalent anymore at U of T,” notes Ostrander, 56. “People in senior levels of administration clearly see the program as an important thing to do. Many of them have stepped up and helped, and it does U of T credit.”

It’s easy to see how the charming Ostrander (who practised corporate law for 22 years and is now in private business) has been able to drum up so much support for the centre. “I’m always meeting new friends,” he says. “I really like people.”

Susan Eng

Susan Eng's watchword is accountability

Now in her seventh year as an alumni governor on Governing Council, Eng’s watchword is accountability. “For me, this means that you look at an institution’s values. Then you look to see whether or not it has the best programs to achieve them. It’s not good enough for a committee just to say, ‘we’re on it.’ We need to account for how the university services its own values.”

For Eng, these values include diversity and student mentorship. As a governor, she also works to ensure that the university provides adequate funding for student aid, to increase accessibility for all deserving students. U of T has changed radically since the days when Eng, the child of Chinese immigrants, used to walk from her home at the corner of Howland Avenue and Bloor Street to attend classes at University College in the early 1970s. “There was a lot of cliquism then, and very few resources for visible minorities,” she says. Diversity and tolerance have certainly increased since then, but Eng warns against complacency. “These values have to keep being rearticulated, to each new generation of politicians and students.”

Alumni engagement is also significant to her. “Fundraising is the primary culture, but people get tired of being asked for money without a reason why. We need not only alumni money, but alumni input.” Eng believes that doing “good” doesn’t always mean doing “nice.” On the other hand, she’s learned what brings results and what doesn’t. She’s not big, for example, on protest rallies or in-your-face tactics. “You have to appeal to people’s self-interest,” she says, pointing to another of her recent accomplishments: acting as co-chair of the coalition that ultimately secured redress and a Parliamentary apology from the federal government for immigrants who were forced to pay the notorious Chinese Head Tax.

Eng is best known to Torontonians as the former chair of Toronto’s fractious Police Services Board, a post she held in the early 1990s. This “trial by ordeal,” as she describes it, was where her biggest lessons in accountability were learned. “It was a fascinating time,” she says now, the public nature of which “forced me to do my job better than I’d ever done before.”

Cynthia Macdonald (BA 1986) is a freelance writer in Toronto.

CIUT technician Steve Birek

At the next desk over, Keisha Barrett and Chris Berube, a second-year student, are prepping their traffic reports by checking websites that track road volume across Toronto. “No major incidents; it’s pretty light today,” says Barrett, with a hint of disappointment. Senai Iman, a fourth-year student, and Rebecca Penty, the director of Take 5, hurriedly write the news report that Iman will deliver. Frank announces to whoever happens to be listening that there’s coffee in the hallway, but for their first live show, most staff members are already buzzing on adrenaline.

Frank offers a last bit of advice to the assembled reporters, telling them not to start talking before they’ve heard the short musical clips that introduce each section. “One thing that’s very important today is to watch your throws, and wait for your stingers,” says Frank. “Other than that, just pretend we’re not on the air.”

CIUT operates out of a creaking three-storey Victorian mansion sandwiched between the Rotman School of Management and the Newman Centre. The U of T Sexual Education Centre occupies the ground floor, but the rest of the building is a warren of rooms housing the station’s operations. Everything that isn’t a broadcast studio or a cramped office is given over to storage space for CIUT’s collection of 15,000 vinyl records – which the DJs still play with remarkable frequency – and more than 40,000 CDs. The station’s 15,000-watt signal comes from a transmitter atop First Canadian Place, and can be heard clearly all the way from Barrie, Ontario, to Buffalo, New York.

Run almost entirely by volunteers, CIUT exhibits the rough edges and deliberate rawness one expects from amateur enthusiasts: silences last a little too long, ahs and ums creep in. These small imperfections are what give CIUT its affable, comfortable sound – the kind that has long since vanished from the corporate- controlled airwaves. Yet despite its do-it-yourself demeanour, CIUT has helped launch some of Canada’s best-known musicians. Loreena McKennitt and Ron Sexsmith performed live at CIUT early in their careers. The Barenaked Ladies played there when they were still street-busking. The station may not make careers overnight, but listeners often hear artists perform months or years before they enjoy mainstream recognition.

Although the station is located at U of T’s downtown campus, many of CIUT’s listeners live in the suburban belt that rings Toronto. Under its broadcast licence,CIUT is officially a “campus-based community radio station,” intended to serve both students and the general public, though how general is open to question. Many of its shows – one concerns animal rights, for example; another new poetry – cater to audiences too niche for commercial radio. “One of the neat things about CIUT is the enormous variety,” says Ian Angus (MA 1972), who helms a blues show called Let the Good Times Roll and also serves as chair of the board. “If you ever listen to commercial radio, it sounds the same 24 hours a day. CIUT provides a home for the kind of broadcasting that you simply cannot get anywhere else on the dial.”

The mishmash of unusual shows that make up the station’s weekly broadcast schedule draw a small but dedicated listenership. CIUT can’t afford to subscribe to a commercial ratings measurement service, but one indication of audience commitment is the station’s biannual pledge drive. CIUT relies on a student levy to operate and it also sells advertising, but about a quarter of its annual $500,000 budget comes straight from its listeners. Gospel Music Machine, a Sunday morning show hosted by Courtney Williams that’s been a CIUT institution almost from the beginning, is consistently one of the station’s top fundraisers. “Gospel in Toronto is a very big audience,” says Williams. “Our listeners are very dedicated to ensuring that we stay on the air.”

For many years before receiving its FM licence, the station – which has gone by many different names, including Radio Varsity, Input Radio, UTR and CJUT, before settling finally on CIUT – was “pretty much a glorified PA system,” in the words of one alumnus and former volunteer. Delivered by closed-circuit wiring to speakers in residence common rooms and some academic buildings, volunteers produced about 80 hours a week of music and spokenword programs. Despite the closed-circuit system’s limited broadcast range, the volunteers considered it a rehearsal for the day they would, inevitably it seemed, make the leap to FM. It wasn’t quite that easy. An ambitious FM proposal in 1976 was rejected by the CRTC as “financially weak” and “a bit too hopeful.” It took 10 years to regroup and establish a base of support among U of T students, who in 1985 agreed to fund the station with a $5-a-year levy.

Dave Trafford (BA 1983 St. Michael’s) chaired CIUT’s board as it prepared to make its case to the CRTC. It was a long, arduous process, but the CRTC was impressed by the plan, praising CIUT’s “excellent presentation” and “obvious grasp of FM policy.” On March 20, 1986, the CRTC phoned to say it had accepted the application and that FM broadcasts could begin within the year.

The station made its first broadcast on January 15, 1987. And almost right away, things started to go wrong.

Like many organizations that rely on a large base of volunteers, the station is at times chaotic, and occasionally downright anarchic. For many years it was wracked by infighting and teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. “We’re celebrating all that we are” on the station’s 20th anniversary, says station manager Brian Burchell (BSc 1987), “but we’re also celebrating that we’ve survived this long, through very difficult times.”

CIUT faced financial disaster for the first time less than a year after its initial broadcast. Startup costs had been higher than expected, and advertisers were scarce. With the station already more than $300,000 in debt, staff were laid off and others quit, and an emergency fundraising drive was needed. Less than a year later, U of T students bailed the station out again with a special one-time levy. But the stress of keeping the station afloat took its toll: in its first 13 years, CIUT had 13 station managers.

Trafford, who had overseen CIUT’s FM application, served briefly as the second station manager. “Here’s a bunch of students trying to run a fairly significant 24-hour broadcasting operation,” he says. “None of them are experienced in it, they’re all working crazy hours and some of them had other jobs on top of that. Managing a radio station takes a good deal of experience to do it well on a good day without losing money. When you’re new to it, that just compounds the problems.” Trafford resigned as station manager after just a few months in the role, citing conflict with the board of directors.

The station lurched along, scraping by financially and enduring conflicts among the staff, volunteers and directors. But in 1999, as one staffer explained, “It all went kablooie.”

“We ran out of money,” says Angus. “As a result, the whole staff wasn’t paid and they quit or were laid off, then the board quit. So we found ourselves with no management and no governing body.” With the CRTC threatening to revoke its broadcast licence, the end of CIUT was a very real possibility. “It had spiralled downward by 1999,” acknowledges Burchell. “It was akin to a forest fire, which is damaging but sometimes necessary. 1999 was our forest fire.”

U of T and the Students’ Administrative Council (SAC) stepped in and petitioned the CRTC to give the powers formerly held by the board to Burchell, a former SAC executive who had helped CIUT with its FM application, but hadn’t been involved during the years of infighting. “I wasn’t part of any of the factions,” he says.

With updated bylaws and clearer distinctions drawn among the roles of board, staff and volunteers, CIUT emerged stronger. Volunteers who had left out of disappointment or frustration returned to do their shows; some difficult but much-needed financial cutbacks were made; and the CRTC gave the station a conditional 30-month licence renewal, providing it with time to regroup.

It worked: seven years later, CIUT is still on the air – andBurchell is still its station manager. Turning things around first meant financial discipline, Burchell says, but it also took a change in the station’s culture. Whereas CIUT had long worn its leftist politics on its sleeve, the reborn station is, if not exactly apolitical, more subdued. “CIUT is not a political party, and it’s not an advocate,” says Burchell. “It’s in the business of making broadcasting.” Under his management, the emphasis of the station might be summed up as “more medium, less message.” While hosts can – and frequentlydo – advance opinions or promote causes, the station itself no longer takes sides, and the rollicking political quarrels that characterized CIUT for many years are now mostly absent. “It was definitely a Jekyll and Hyde place,” recalls Karen Parsons, who worked on the show Caffeine Free in the late 1980s and is now news director at 660 News in Calgary. “It was fun and funky and delightful and a pain all rolled into one.”

Leaving the bully pulpit behind has allowed the staff to focus more on the station’s day-to-day operations, clean up its finances, develop new talent and raise more money. Today CIUT is financially stable, has paid off its substantial debts and even runs a small surplus.

Naturally, it was time to do something crazy.

IN 2005, during the eight-week labour dispute at the CBC, CIUT found itself thrust into the national spotlight when a group of locked-out CBC staff came calling. Andy Barrie, host of Radio One’s Metro Morning, had floated the idea of producing a show on CIUT using CBC staffers who had nothing to do but walk the picket line.

For three weeks in September 2005, Barrie and dozens of other CBC radio personalities and producers broadcast Toronto Unlocked, a three-hour morning radio show from 91 St. George that brought local news, weather, traffic and sports to Toronto listeners who could no longer hear it on the CBC. “For us, it was an opportunity to bring other listeners’ attention to CIUT as a frequency,” says Burchell. “But we also had CIUT volunteers immersed in the whole thing. And CBC staff remembered what drew them to radio to begin with.” The broadcasts were remarkably popular, drawing in curious CBC listeners and reaching people as far away as Russia over the Web.

The Toronto Unlocked experience was such a success, Burchell says, that CIUT decided to launch its own magazine-style morning show and that show is Take 5. Since the lockout, the Canadian Media Guild has founded a Broadcaster in Residence program at the station to pair CBC staff with CIUT volunteers. That base of experience is one of the things that makes an ambitious new show such as Take 5 possible.

After years of fighting simply to survive, CIUT is looking ahead, trying to plan for an uncertain future. Its transmitter is aging, and will be expensive to replace. Internet audio, portable MP3 players and satellite services are all changing the way listeners consume radio, and CIUT is racing to keep up, building a new website and preparing to offer podcasts of nearly all its shows. Burchell says that CIUT is actually wellpositioned to compete in a fragmenting media landscape, since it already caters to a collection of niche audiences.

Take 5 showcases CIUT’s evolving technique and growing confidence. Five days a week for an hour and a half starting at 8:30 a.m., host Lisa Marshall will lead a daily rotation of CIUT volunteers delivering entertainment, sports, interviews, documentaries, traffic, weather and news. By focusing on Toronto
issues, Take 5 provides an alternative for CBC listeners in search of local content after the local CBC morning show ends. And Take 5 will draw on U of T’s ranks of professors and researchers for interviews, commentary and expertise, a resource that Burchell says the station hasn’t adequately tapped in the past. Marshall, who spent the last 10 years doing a morning show for CJMO FM in Moncton, New Brunswick, is an old hand at the game, making her a centre of calm in the buzzing newsroom on this particular Monday, minutes before Take 5 debuts.

“It’ll be a fun morning,” she says. “I think we have a really great show.” Just before going into the studio to sign on, she calls out, “Let’s show the CBC what we can do!” The red “on-air” light flicks on, the familiar jazz strains of Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five” fill the studio and U of T’s newest crop of volunteer broadcasters take their places at the microphones. CIUT is on the air.

Graham F. Scott (BA 2006 Trinity) is a freelance writer in Toronto.

With the help of EnQuest Power Corporation, an upstart waste-to-energy company, the students developed a detailed proposal for a gasification plant. The team proposed feeding garbage into a huge cylindrical kiln that’s heated to 800 Celsius, and subjecting it to steam. In this super-hot, oxygen-starved environment, plastic and organic waste reduces to a synthetic gas that can be used as fuel. The small amount of material that doesn’t break down would be dumped at a landfill site.

What struck Professor Kirk is that the design team didn’t focus on the engineering aspects of the project, but rather on the environmental and socio-economic consequences. “They came up with ideas for community buy-in that I thought were more innovative than the engineering,” he recalls. One idea involved setting up a plant at a decommissioned landfill site, where the energy produced from the gasification process would generate heat for a greenhouse. “They were thinking broadly, about how you would make this technology attractive to the public,” says Kirk.

Every Canadian knows that Toronto has world-class garbage problems. A growing number of Torontonians feel uncomfortable about shipping garbage to distant landfill sites, and public opinion polls show a growing interest in garbage disposal alternatives such as gasification and high-tech incineration, as practised in Europe.

Many local politicians and environmentalists remain skeptical. They cite concerns with toxic emissions, reliability, cost and the potentially negative impact such systems could have on recycling programs. On the other side of the debate, proponents say that the GTA municipalities need to reduce their dependence on landfills, which emit greenhouse gases and depend on a steady stream of dump trucks spewing diesel exhaust. They also say new technologies can generate energy, providing cities with economic and environmental payoffs.

Since 2001, Toronto has been increasingly proactive about diverting garbage from landfill. In 2005, the city’s diversion rate reached 40 per cent, thanks to expanded recycling, hazardous waste drop-off programs, and household green bins for organic waste. Toronto is now one of North America’s greenest municipalities, and city officials hope to break through the 60 per cent mark by 2008.

It won’t be easy. Half of the city’s residents live in apartments, and many highrises don’t have adequate recycling or green bin facilities. Another headache is finding a way to dispose of toothbrushes, mattresses and old electronics – and all the other stuff that can’t be tossed into recycling bins. Even if Toronto achieves a 60 per cent diversion rate, it will still have to dispose of 400,000 tonnes of residual waste each year. Until 2010, our trash will continue to be shipped to Michigan, and then it will be dumped at a newly purchased landfill site near London, Ontario. But within the next four or five years, the city wants to choose an alternate method for dealing with residual waste.

Over the coming year, the Community Environmental Assessment Team will work with Toronto’s city council to evaluate the options. Philip Knox, the team’s chair, wants the University of Toronto to play a role. “We’d like to get professors and students to come out and help us look at these issues,” he says.

When John Rowswell (MEng 1986) was elected mayor of Sault Ste. Marie in 2000, he took over a city with serious economic problems. He set out to attract new business to the Sault – in particular, businesses that focus on waste management and energy. Rowswell travelled to Forssa, Finland (Sault Ste. Marie’s sister city), for a quick education on new approaches to energy, recycling and waste management. Forssa diverts two-thirds of its trash, and uses the energy generated from it to power a district heating system.

Inspired by Forssa, Sault Ste. Marie launched a daring experiment last year. The city partnered with EnQuest to builda demonstration gasification plant at the local landfill, with an eye to generate energy from waste. The firm plans to separate recyclables at one facility, and then gasify the remaining hydrocarbon-based materials, such as plastics, wood and paper. EnQuest claims its technology can reduce garbage mass by up to 90 per cent. Sault Ste. Marie is now seeking environmental approval to process one tonne of garbage a day, with the possibility of ramping up to 275 tonnes a day if the technology proves viable.

Cities have been burning garbage since the 19th century. The rap against old-style incinerators is that they pollute the local environment with lead, mercury and the dioxins they create during the burning process. Knox says that Toronto’s environmental assessment team will evaluate thermal processing techniques such as incineration and gasification, but it’s a touchy issue. For decades, an incinerator rained heavy-metal ash on downtown neighbourhoods until it was mothballed in 1988.

In the 1990s, countries including Germany, Sweden and Denmark pushed through tough new rules limiting emissions – forcing municipalities to invest heavily in technology to capture all but the slightest traces of toxins in the ash. “It’s not a problem to have a very clean incinerator,” says chemical engineering professor Charles Jia, who has been developing scrubbing technologies for both industry and municipalities. Waste is mechanically pre-sorted to remove hazardous materials, such as batteries, and substances that burn poorly or not at all, such as glass, aluminum and wet organics. Carbon-activated sponges can absorb mercury vapours that are released during incineration, and alkaline filters can neutralize the acid gases. In some countries, the bottom ash – about 20 per cent of the original volume of the garbage – is stabilized by mixing it with cement to form concrete.

Do these new technologies produce safer incinerators? The jury is still out, but a growing number of toxicologists think they do. The thornier problem is the hefty capital and operating costs associated with incinerators, and the composition of the waste being fed into them. Clean incineration is almost twice as expensive as dumping in landfill. But there’s an off-setting benefit: the heat generated by five tonnes of waste can provide enough power for a typical household for one year.

Yet not all garbage is created equal. The most energy-efficient waste includes wood, paper and plastic, says Jia. But municipalities have become increasingly adept at recycling these materials, and environmentalists are loath to roll back those gains. “One of the major arguments against incinerators
is that they need to be fed to get your money’s worth out of them,” says Phil Byer, a professor of civil engineering. “I don’t see any good argument for burning packaging.”

Kirk has a different way of looking at this issue. He agrees that it’s much more energy efficient to recycle paper and metal products than to make them from scratch. But he points out that some of the materials collected in blue boxes end up in landfills, because they can’t be reprocessed. Plastics come in so many different chemical forms, he says, that some can’t be properly sorted. Instead of recycling plastics, Kirk advocates converting them into usable synthetic gas (also known as “syngas”). “The question I ask is, ‘How much energy does it take to recycle compared to the amount of energy you can get out of the process?’”

In class, Kirk walks his students through a life-cycle analysis, which calculates the total energy used for recycling trucks, sorting equipment, secondary shipments of contaminated materials to landfills and the greenhouse gases created by landfills. “Most come around to the view that we should be using the plastics for their fuel value,” says Kirk.

ALTHOUGH INCINERATION and gasification garner most of the media attention, some waste-management firms believe there’s a less risky solution to our garbage problem. The alternative relies more on decomposition than high-tech facilities operating at blazing temperatures.

In the early 1990s, Eastern Power Corporation, a Toronto energy company founded by brothers Gregory (BASc 1982) and Hubert Vogt (BASc 1980) and Herman Walter, developed two facilities for capturing the methane gas that escapes from landfills, and using it as fuel. Having completed those ventures successfully, Eastern shifted focus.

They reasoned that if the decomposition process could be accelerated, they could alter the entire logic of municipal waste management. Through a subsidiary called Subbor, Eastern designed an “anaerobic digestion technology” capable of rapidly converting garbage into a peat-like substance. According to Eastern’s studies, anaerobic digestion is the best bet for minimizing greenhouse gases and maximizing the energy produced from municipal solid waste.

In Subbor’s system, municipalities collect all solid waste in“super blue boxes” and truck it to a central processing facility. A series of filters and mechanical separating machines remove the metals, paper and recyclable plastics so they can be sent to recycling facilities. The remaining material is ground down and goes through a two-stage “digestion” process that uses bacteria to accelerate natural decomposition. This digestion takes place at 55 Celsius. The process yields a bio gas that can be used to operate the facility or produce electrical power for a local utility. It also yields a peatlike substance. After sorting the
peat to remove undigested residuals, such as plastic scraps, it can be sold for compost, landfill cover or agriculture.

In 1998, Subbor approached the City of Guelph about building a $30-million demonstration facility capable of processing 480 tonnes of garbage a week. But even after Subbor built the plant, anaerobic digestion continued to be a tough sell. Three years after signing the contract, Guelph cancelled the deal when city officials determined that Subbor couldn’t handle the volume of waste generated by the city. Subbor sued for breach of contract, but the city maintained it didn’t violate the terms of the agreement. A judgment is pending, but Subbor’s plans to build more facilities are on hold for the time being.

York and Durham regions also rejected anaerobic digestion as an option following an environmental assessment conducted last spring. The assessors concluded that it would be difficult to find a sufficiently large site and warned that such plants – because they must be capable of storing large quantities of decomposing waste – have the potential to damage local ecosystems.

Despite the setbacks, Vogt remains optimistic. “Technology can help us in this area,” he insists. “When, I can’t predict. But we have learned to be patient.”

What’s clear with all of these technologies is that the City of Toronto won’t be able to consider them in isolation from other key policy decisions, some of which fall under the purview of other levels of government. “Waste management has to be seen as a system,” says Byer. “It is a question of a package of options and activities.”

A major consideration will be packaging rules, says Knox. Germany and Sweden, for example, have much tougher national rules requiring manufacturers to take responsibility for the full life cycle of the packaging they use. Knox says that without tough regulations, there will be little motivation for manufacturers to reduce their dependence on plastic and paper wrapping.

Then there’s the role of established recycling programs. For many environmentalists, these are sacrosanct because they have forced citizens to think about the three Rs – reduce, reuse, recycle. But as Knox and Kirk point out, some of the stuff that goes in the recycling box ends up in landfill, only by way of a more circuitous route. “It’s amazing, when you start to peel back the layers of the onion, the things you find underneath,” Knox says.

Beth Savan, the director of the university’s Sustainability Office, says that the decision to adopt new technologies must be guided by a handful of key factors: toxin emission levels, the health of waste management workers, location, the risk of failure and the mechanics of transporting waste to the disposal facilities. “This is always going to be a value-laden decision,” she says. “There will never be a universal system where everyone can agree on the assumptions.”

Yet both Byer and Kirk say it will be critical for Toronto to evaluate the various technologies in a scientifically rigorous fashion. Byer, who has previously advised the city on waste management technology, knows that the claims and counter-claims of the proponents of various systems need to be tested carefully, especially when it comes to incineration and gasification. He says the university is well-positioned to offer dispassionate expert advice. “We need to be openminded about these technologies, but we must also take a hard look at them.”

John Lorinc (BSc 1987) is a Toronto journalist. Penguin Canada recently published his book The New City.

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CIBC
CIT Financial Ltd.
City of Mississauga
City of Scarborough
CN
Corus Entertainment Inc.
The Counselling Foundation of Canada
Donner Canadian Foundation
The Edper Group Foundation
Edwards Charitable Foundation
Energenius Incorporated
Friends of the Trinity College Library
The Lionel Gelber Foundation
General Motors of Canada Limited
GlaxoSmithKline
HATCH
The Heinrichs Foundation
IBM Canada Limited
Imasco Limited
Imperial Oil Foundation
Jackman Foundation
Petro Jacyk Educational Foundation
The Ben and Hilda Katz Foundation
The W. M. Keck Foundation
Patrick and Barbara Keenan Foundation
The Henry White Kinnear Foundation
The Albert and Temmy Latner Family Foundation
The Law Foundation of Ontario
Drs. Richard Charles Lee and Esther Yewpick Lee Charitable Foundation
Magna International Inc.
Manulife Financial
Maple Financial Group Inc.
Massey College
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation
Microsoft Canada Co.
Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation of Toronto
Nortel Networks
Novo Nordisk Canada Inc.
Ontario College of Pharmacists
The Ontario HIV Treatment Network
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Parkinson Society Canada
Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario
The Helen and Paul Phelan Foundation
The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation
RBC Foundation
Fondation Baxter & Alma Ricard
Rogers Wireless
Sanofi Pasteur Limited
Dr. Scholl Foundation
SciCan – Division of Lux and Zwingenberger
Scotiabank Group
SGI Canada Ltd.
Shoppers Drug Mart
Southam Inc.
Stevelyn Holdings Ltd.
Sun Life Financial
Sun Microsystems of Canada Inc.
Sunnybrook and Women’s College Hospital Foundation
TD Bank Financial Group
Teck Corporation
Tembec Inc.
Toronto Hydro Telecom
The Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
The Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Nursing
Torys LLP
Tripos Inc.
TSX Group Inc.
University of Toronto Alumni Association
University of Toronto at Mississauga Student Union
University of Toronto at Scarborough Students
University of Toronto Press Inc.
University of Toronto Schools’ Alumni Association
George and Helen Vari Foundation
The W. Garfield Weston Foundation
The Sam and Ayala Zacks Foundation

Leading Gifts
The following lists donors with cumulative commitments to U of T of $5,000 or more between January 1, 2004 and April 30, 2006.

$10,000,000 or more
Marcel Desautels / Canadian Credit Management Foundation

$5,000,000 to $9,999,999
Terrence Donnelly
Phyllis and Bill Waters

Barrick Heart of Gold Fund, TrizecHahn Corporation, Peter and Melanie Munk

$1,000,000 to $4,999,999
Roma Auerback
Mark S. Bonham
Richard J. Currie
Edward L. Donegan
Ira Gluskin and Maxine Granovsky-Gluskin
W. Bernard and Sharon Herman
Elisabeth Hofmann
James D. Hosine
Dipak and Pauline M. H. Mazumdar
Hilary V. Nicholls
Jeffrey S. Skoll
Joey and Toby Tanenbaum

Apotex Foundation / Honey and Barry Sherman
AstraZeneca Canada Inc.
Baxter Corporation
Bell Canada
Harry V. Brill Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust
Davenport Family Foundation
Erin Mills Development Corporation, in memory of Marco Muzzo
The Peterborough K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundation
The Korea Foundation
The Lassonde Foundation
MDS Inc.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Nobel Biocare USA Inc.
Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
Pfizer Canada Inc.
RBC Financial Group through RBC Foundation
Scotiabank Group
The Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
Tung Lin Kok Yuen
The Wilson Foundation
Women’s College Hospital Foundation
3 Anonymous Donors

$100,000 to $999,999
Manaf K. Alazzawi
Bluma and Bram Appel
Isabel and Alfred Bader
George P. and Elizabeth C. Baird
Edward L. Baker
Susan Beal-Malloch
Avie and Beverly Bennett
Andrea and Charles Bronfman
Jim Carson
Glenn H. Carter
Steven Chepa
Grace Y. K. Chum
Frances and Edmund Clark
Cameron Clokie
Tony and Elizabeth Comper
Gerald P. Copeland
Gordon and Patti Cunningham
Jane and Peter Dobell
Dan Donovan
William Wai Hoi Doo
George A. Elliott
Graham Farquharson
Henry Farrugia
Anthony Smithson Fell
George A. Fierheller
Joseph A. and Marie Juliette Fischette
Margaret and Jim Fleck
William F. Francis
Norman Fraser
Patrick Yuk-Bun Fung
Bob and Irene Gillespie
Carol and Lorne Goldstein
Michael Guinness
Ralph and Roz Halbert
Mary B. and Graham Hallward
Kurt O. and Rita Hani
Milton and Ethel Harris
William B. and Patricia Harris
William and Nona Heaslip
Michael J. Herman
Daisy Ho Chiu Fung
Gallant Ho Yiu-Tai
Richard and Donna Holbrook
Ernest Howard
George Conland Hunt
The Honourable Henry N. R. Jackman
Ignat and Didi Kaneff
Jack Kay
Edward Kernaghan
Victor Kurdyak
Kwok Kin Kwok
Lee Ka and Margaret Lau
John B. Lawson
David Leith and Jacqueline Spayne
Sigmund and Nancy Levy
Li Shun Xing and Cynthia Li
Stephen D. Lister and Margaret Rundle
Naïm S. Mahlab
Robert R. McEwen
James L. and Sylvia McGovern
Dorothy McRobb
Stanley Meek
Johanna L. Metcalf
June Mines
Gary and Brenda Mooney
Frank and Helen Morneau
Irvin S. Naylor
Michael J. Nobrega
Jean O’Grady
Bernard Ostry
Rose M. Patten
Frank W. Peers
Dorothy J. Powell
The Honourable Vivienne Poy
J. Robert S. Prichard and Ann E.Wilson
Thomas Rahilly and Jean Fraser
Christopher Robinson
Sidney Robinson and Linda Currie
Richard E. Rooney
Barrie Rose and Family
Sandra and Joseph Rotman
William and Meredith Saunderson
Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman
Gail Ferriss Sheard
Robert G. Shelley
George B. Snell
Richard B. and Verna M. Splane
Alex and Kim Squires
William and Elizabeth Star
Margaret E. Stedman
Donald McNichol Sutherland
Richard I.Thorman
William and Kate Troost
Bert Wasmund
Jack Weinbaum
W. David and Shelagh Wilson
Annie Kit-Wah Wong
Lenny Wong
Marion Woodman
Morden Yolles

Alcon Canada Inc.
Amgen Canada Inc.
Associated Medical Services, Inc.
Avana Capital Corporation
Bank of Montreal
Barilla
Barilla America Inc.
Bayer HealthCare
Bealight Foundation
Bentall Capital Limited Partnership
The Dr. Charles H. Best Foundation
J. P. Bickell Foundation
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Friends of Finland Education Foundation
Arthur J. E. Child Foundation
Dare Foods Limited
Department of Surgery-Surgery Alumni Association
The Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine
The John Dobson Foundation
Donner Canadian Foundation
DRAXIS Health Incorporated
Jessie Ball duPont Fund
Ernst & Young
Faculty Members of the Dept. of Medicine
GE Foundation
The Bertrand Gerstein Charitable Foundation
The Frank Gerstein Charitable Foundation
Grace Gilhooly Foundation
GlaxoSmithKline
Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation
HATCH
The Audrey S. Hellyer Charitable Foundation
The Hope Charitable Foundation
C.D. Howe Memorial Foundation
HSBC Bank Canada
Intel Corporation
International Association for Energy Economics
The Ireland Fund of Canada
Jackman Foundation
The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation
Johnson & Johnson Medical Products
Kiessling / Isaak Family Fund at the Toronto Community Foundation
The Henry White Kinnear Foundation
The KPMG Foundation
The Albert and Temmy Latner Family Foundation
The Law Foundation of Ontario
The Lawson Foundation
The Lupina Foundation
The Maytree Foundation
McCarthy Tétrault LLP
The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation
McKesson Canada
Medicine Class of 2005
Merck Frosst Canada Ltd.
George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation
Microsoft Canada Co.
The Minto Foundation
Morguard Corporation
Newmont Mining Corporation of Canada Limited
Novopharm Limited
Patheon Inc.
PCL Constructors Canada Inc.
Pharmasave Ontario
PricewaterhouseCoopers
The Purpleville Foundation
Radiation Oncologists — PMH
Rexall / Pharma Plus
RCGA Foundation
Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation
The Salamander Foundation
Sanofi-aventis Canada Inc.
SMH Department of Ophthalmology
Smith & Nephew
St. Michael’s Hospital
State Farm Companies Foundation
Students’ Administrative Council of the U of T
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation
TD Bank Financial Group
Toronto Centre for Lesbian and Gay Studies
Toronto Hospital, Mount Sinai Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital Imaging Consultants
The Toronto Notes for Medical Students Inc. in honour of the Class of 2006
University Health Network and Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation
University of Toronto – Chemistry Club
University of Toronto Alumni Association
U of T Medical Class of 2004
The W. Garfield Weston Foundation
13 Anonymous Donors

$25,000 to $99,999
Rona Abramovitch and Jonathan Freedman
Peter A.Allen
Scott Anderson
Darrell R.Avram
James Cameron Baillie
Ralph M. Barford
Jack Barkin
Carol and Martin Barkin
R. S. Beckwith
Pierre J. Belanger
Michael and Wanda Bell
Brent Belzberg
Jalynn Bennett
R. M. Bennett
David R. Bloom
William and Marian Blott
Harald and Jean Bohne
Michael Borger
Walter M. and Lisa Balfour Bowen
J. Edward Boyce
E. Marion (Cooper) Brancaccio
Carl F. Brown
Margaret Brown
Stewart Brown
Vivian and David Campbell
Luigi and Margaret Casella
Margaret J. Catto
Wendy M. Cecil
Saroj and Fakir Chachra
Marshall L. Chasin and Joanne Deluzio
Louis and Lisa Cheng
Howard Cohen and Ron Soskolne
Ted and Elaine Cole
William J. Corcoran
William Craig
Irene Pump Croot and Keith Croot
D. Aleck Dadson
Gail Darling
Bryan P. Davies and Andra Takacs
Glen Davis
William B. Davis
Alfredo De Gasperis and Mark Muzzo
Derrick and Marnie de Kerckhove
William G. and Wendy Jean
Dean A. Ephraim Diamond
Jon Dorrington
Lois Downing
Harvey L. Dyck
B. Muriel Eastwood
The Evans Family
Shari Graham Fell
Veronica Fenyves
Graeme and Phyllis Ferguson
Jack M. Fine
M. Constance Fraser
Brian D. Freeland
Margaret S. Gairns
J. Ian Giffen
Martin Goldfarb
Blake Charles Goldring
Warren and Barbara Goldring
John and Mary Goodwin
Allan G. Gornall
Ron and Gillian Graham
Al and Malka Green
Barbara H. Greene
Edward L. Greenspan
Alex and George Grossman
George Grossman
Helen Gurney
Lynda C. Hamilton
Andrew J. M. Hazeland
William L. B. Heath
Thomas H. Heinsoo
John D. M. Helston
Phyllis Saunders Holmes
Velma P.W. Howie
John Hughes
Renata L. Humphries
J. Peter and Hélène Hunt
Judith Isaacs Ludwig
Edward J. R. Jackman
F. Ross and Susan L. Johnson
Michael R. Johnston
Roberta, Raynard and Winston Jong
L. Lundy and E. (Langford) Julian
Fred Kan
Fred and May Karp
Arthur P. Kennedy
Shaf Keshavjee
Nathan Keyfitz
George B. Kiddell
Marnie Kinsley
Eric V. and David Klein
Robert Kulyk
Bernard Langer
Jacob Charles Langer
Donald G. Lawson
Jimmy Y. C. Lee
David M. B. LeGresley
David Lesk
Samuel and Evelyn Librach
Paul F. Little
Fred Litwin
Bob and Kam Lo
V. Lobodowsky
Che Anne Loewen
Sheila and Sydney Loftus and Family
Allan W. Love
Grant Lum
Antony T. F. Lundy
Donald H. H. MacKenzie
Margaret O. MacMillan
Rocco and Jennifer Marcello
Roger Martin and Nancy Lang
Jean C. L. McArthur
John H. and Netilia McArthur
Jack McAteer
Margaret and Wallace McCain
Leighton W. McCarthy
John and Aileen McGrath
Hugh D. McKellar
John L. McLaughlin
R. Peter and Virginia McLaughlin
Kathleen McMorrow
Anthony and Valerie Melman
The Menkes Family
Guy W. Mills
Susan Monteith and Ronald J.Walker
Harold J. Murphy
Krish Murti
David and Mary Neelands
John Nixon
Gary R. Norton
John Martin O’Connell and Martine Bouchard
Louis L. and Patricia M. Odette
Peter O’Hagan
Pierre Karch and Mariel O’Neill-Karch
Simon Ortiz
Michael Jackson Paine
Sandra and James B. Pitblado
Helene Polatajko and W.C. (Pete) Howell
Nora Post
Alfred and Louise Powis
C. K. and Gayatri Prahalad
Jonas J. Prince
Bruce R. Pynn
Vivek Rao
David Rayside
Donald B. Redfern
James A. Rendall
Elena Riabenko
Marvi and John Ricker
Joseph H. Robertson
Gerrard P. Rocchi
John A. Rogers
David S. Rootman
Donald M. Ross
Michael and Sheila Royce
Edward Rygiel
Sean D. Sadler
George Sandor
Louis Savlov
John A. Sawyer
Arthur Scace
Beverly and Fred Schaeffer
Lionel and Carol Schipper
Wes Scott
Roy J. Shephard
Debra Shime
Jonathan Shime
Pamela Shime
Sandra Shime and Stuart Svonkin
Melvin and Frances Silverman
Pamela Singer
Kenneth Carless Smith and Laura C. Fujino
Sam Sniderman
Joseph Sommerfreund
Edward and Marisa Sorbara
Joseph D. M. Sorbara
Mickey and Annette Convey Spillane
Anna C. Spoel
Peter St George-Hyslop
Margaret K. St. Clair
Barbara H. Stanton
Linn and Barbara Stanton
Ruth K. Stedman
Volker Stein
Lilly Offenbach Strauss
Mary Alice and Alexander K. Stuart
Jordan Sydney Swartz
Martin Teplitsky
Karel and Yoka terBrugge
Ellen J.Timbrell
Harriet E. C.Tunmer
Carolyn Tuohy and The Walter and Mary Tuohy Foundation
A. C.Tupker
Theodore O. van der Veen
G. Patrick H.Vernon
John and Barbara Vivash
James P.Waddell
Thomas K.Waddell
Joanne Waddington
Quentin Wahl
Olwen Walker
Elizabeth Walter
David G.Ward
Paul D.Warner
Mary-Margaret Webb
Pamela G.Whelan
H. Brian and Patricia R. White
Jack Whiteside
William P.Wilder
Michael H.Wilson
Percy Chi Hung Wong
W. Murray Wonham
Andrew and Lisa Wu
S. Adrian Yaffe
Ronald H.Yamada
Bill and Janet Young
Rosemary Zigrossi
Daniel Zuzak

Abbott Laboratories Limited
Academy for Lifelong Learning
Air Canada
Alcon Research Limited
Allergan Inc.
ALTANA Pharma Inc.
Alumni Association of Woodsworth College
Anur Investments Ltd.
Architectural School Products Limited
Association for Korea and Canada Cultural Exchange
Basilian Fathers of USMC
Bazaar & Novelty
BDO Dunwoody LLP
The Benjamin Foundation
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation Toronto, Canada
Buddhist Education Foundation for Canada
CAE Inc.
The Canada Council
Canadian Coalition for Good Governance
Canadian Federation of University Women, Scarborough
Canadian Foundation for the Advancement of Orthodontics
Canadian Opera Volunteer Committee
Canadian Sugar Institute
Canadian-German Festival
Centre For International Governance Innovation
Centro Scuola-Canadian
Cntr for Italian Culture & Education
CIBC
Jeffrey Cook Charitable Foundation
Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall
Dairy Farmers of Canada
Dalton Chemical Laboratories Incorporated
Diamond and Schmitt Architects Incorporated
Divisions of Nephrology at University Health Network, St. Michael’s Hospital and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Earhart Foundation
Effem Foods Ltd.
Eli Lilly Canada Inc.
Emergency Physicians UHN, the Director’s Academic Fund at the UHN and the UHN Foundation Emergency Patients TGD Fund
Enwave Energy Corporation
ERCO Worldwide
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
Federation of Chinese Canadian Professionals (Ontario) Education Foundation
The Federation of Engineering and Scientific Associations
Fernbrook Homes
Fielding Chemical Technologies Inc.
FirstService Corporation
The Foundation for Better Communities
Foundation for Support of the Korean Studies at the University of Toronto
Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP
Galin Foundation
Frederick G. Gardiner Trust
Percy R. Gardiner Foundation
General Mills Canada Inc.
Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc.
Goodman and Carr LLP
Roscoe Reid Graham
Greater Toronto Sewer and Watermain Contractors Association
Esther Greenglass and George Hiraki Fund
The Grosso Group
Halcrow Yolles
Halocom Society of Canada Ltd.
Hanlan Boat Club
The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundation
Health Research Foundation
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario
The Heinrichs Foundation
H. J. Heinz Company of Canada Limited
Hoffmann-La Roche Limited
Hospital for Sick Children – Department of Diagnostic Imaging
Adrian and Reta Hudson Fund at the Toronto Community Foundation
Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
Petro Jacyk Educational Foundation
Janssen-Ortho Inc.
Jarislowsky Foundation
JCT Management Inc.
Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal
Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto
Jroberts Manufacturing Inc.
Kellogg Canada Inc.
The Kensington Foundation
The Killy Foundation
Kraft Canada Inc.
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
KWA Partners
Laidlaw Foundation
Lang Michener LLP
LG Electronics Canada, Inc.
Walter Lorenz Surgical Inc.
M&M Meat Shops Ltd.
Mach-Gaensslen Foundation of Canada
Managerial Design Corporation
Manulife Financial
Maple Leaf Foods Inc.
Reid I. Martin Trust
The McLean Foundation
Mead Johnson Nutritionals
Medical Alumni Association, University of Toronto
MEDS 9T8
MEDS 9T9
Medtronic of Canada Ltd.
Microsoft Corporation
The Kenneth M. Molson Foundation
Mon Sheong Foundation
F. K. Morrow Foundation
Moscow State Pedagogical University
Munich Reinsurance Company
National Institute of Nutrition
Nestlé Canada Incorporated
Richard John Newman Charitable Foundation
NOKIA Research Centre
Noranda Inc. and Falconbridge Ltd.
Northwater Capital Management Inc.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc.
Ontario Association of Orthodontists
Ontario Ministry of the Environment
Orafti Group
Ortho Biotech
POGO Events
Quaker Tropicana Gatorade Canada Inc.
RBC Foundation
The Redemptorists
Redwood Classics Apparel
Rohm and Haas Canada Incorporated
The Ryckman Trust
The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation
Salus Mundi Foundation
Schering Canada Inc.
SciCan – Division of Lux and Zwingenberger Ltd.
Senior Alumni University of Toronto
Shoppers Drug Mart
Shouldice Designer Stone
Siemens Canada Limited
Sing Tao Canada Foundation
Sodexho Canada
St. George’s Society of Toronto
St. Michael’s Imaging Consultants
Straumann Canada Ltd.
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre – Department of Medical Imaging
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre – Division of Urology
Széchenyi Society Inc.
Tamil Studies Coordinating Committee
The Lawrence and Judith Tanenbaum Family Charitable Foundation
Tembec Inc.
The Toronto Star
The William and Nancy Turner Foundation
Unilever Canada Limited
University College Literary and Athletic Society
University Medical Imaging Centre
University of Toronto – Hart House
University of Toronto Engineering Society
University of Toronto Faculty Association
University of Toronto Foundation
Urban Strategies Inc.
Vancouver Foundation
Vicon Motion Systems
The Wardens of Camp One
Eric T.Webster Foundation
The H.W.Wilson Foundation
Wittington Properties Limited
Woodcliffe Corporation
Woodsworth College Students’ Association
Wyeth Consumer Healthcare Inc.
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
Yamanouchi USA Foundation
Zimmer of Canada Ltd.
36 Anonymous Donors

$10,000 to $24,999
Susan M.Addario and David R. Draper
Kevin and Jill Adolphe
Syed W. Ahmed
Hira Ahuja
William and Haide Aide
John E.Akitt
Virginia and Oktay Aksan
Iyad Shareef Al-Attar and Mehran Omidvar
Derek Allen
Douglas Allen
Richard M. H.Alway
James E.Appleyard
Pasquale Arnone
David and Janis Auster
Salah Bachir
Brad and Katherine Badeau
John Bajc
Lawrence Baldachin
Patricia Barford-Mann
Mary Barnett
Joseph J. Barnicke
Thomas J. Bata
Isabel Bayrakdarian
Roger and Janet Beck
John Beckwith
Ernest E. and Susan Beecherl
Ruth M. C. Rolph Bell
John and Diana Bennett
Andrew Bishop
Earl R. Bogoch
Anne Adela and Ray W. Bonnah
Jean C. Borden
Harvey Botting
Lynne and James Brennan
Margaret A. Brennan
Peter Brieger
David G. Broadhurst
William H. Broadhurst
David Brown
Lisa and Allan Brown and Family
Robert and Wendy Brown
Gloria Buckley
Walter and Danuta Buczynski
Robert Burgess
Alice and Grant Burton
Robert L. Burton
Shirley Byrne
Paul M. Cadario
Brendan Calder
Wendy Cameron
Robin Campbell
Mavis Cariou
Neil and Blanche Carragher
Paul H. Carson
Mary J. Case
John and Mary Cassaday
Mark Cattral
Augustine S. B. Chan
David K.T. Chau
Stephen R. Clarke and Elizabeth Black
Christina McCall and Stephen Clarkson
Christine M. Clement
Margaret E. Cockshutt
Charlotte A. Coffen
Zane Cohen
John Colantonio and Family
Marsh A. Cooper
Ena Cord
Murray A. and Katherine Corlett
Evelyn and C. Graham Cotter
David Cowan
Elizabeth B. Crawford
Donald R. Crawshaw
Robert M. Cross
Walter Curlook
Aubrey Dan
Jennifer Dattels
Timothy D. Dattels
Keith and Dorothy Davey
Virginia L. Davies
Michael and Honor de Pencier
Marc De Perrot
Daniel Debow
George and Katherine Dembroski
David G. J. Desylva
Thomas Di Giacomo
Cora Donely
Gail J. Donner
Anthony N. Doob
Orville L. Drummond
Kenneth and Marianne Duggan
Hazel F. Edwards
Freda M. Eickmeyer
Veneta Elieff
Margaret E. Emmerson
Dag Enhorning
Jaime Escallon
Hope Fairley
Yahya A. Farag
Ahmed Farooq
Irwin Fefergrad
Christopher W.W. Field
John C. Field
J. Peter Foster
Leslie Foster
John Frederick
Ruth Gannon
Michael Gardiner
Suzanne Gayn
Angela D. Gibson
Leo and Sala Goldhar
Mitchell Goldhar
Morton Goldhar
Ronald N. Goldstein
Paul W. Gooch and Pauline Thompson
David Gossage
Avrum I. and Linda Gotlieb
Peter A. Goulding and Frank (Barry) White
Barry and Virginia Graham
Malcolm Graham
David R. Grant
George K. Greason
Patrick and Freda Hart Green
Marion Greenberg and Richard Samuel
Thomas M. Greene
Paul D. Greig
Terry and Ruth Grier
Penny and Allan Gross
Beverly Hendry Hain
Robert and Tracy Hain
Joyce E. Hall
Fred C. Hallden
Mary C. Ham
Harold P. Hands
W. Jason Hanson
Gerald G. Hatch
Sandra J. Hausman
Toni and Robin Healey
Donall and Joyce Healy
Harcus C. Hennigar
Dorothy B. Hertig
Angela Hildyard
James Hill
Kwok Y. Ho
Alan Horn
Clay B. Horner
Michael and Linda Hutcheon
Sandra L. Irving
S. M. Irwin
William H. Irwin
Avrom Isaacs
Krati Jain
L. Jakubovic
William James
Paul J. Jelec
Peter E. S. Jewett and Robin A. Campbell
Gary M. Jones
Sidney M. Kadish
Frank Kalamut
Harold Kalant
Ian F.T. Kennedy
William S. Kennedy
Ruth Kerbel
Fay Kewley
Bruce Kidd
Kathleen King
A. B. Kingsmill
Hal A. Koblin
Michael M. Koerner
The Honourable E. Leo Kolber
Ubby Krakauer
F. H. Kim Krenz
Ellen A. Larsen
Laurie and Richard Lederman
Young Woo Lee
Wey Leong
K. K. and Maicie Leung
John Leyerle and Patricia Eberle
Richard Liss
Terry Litovitz
David Locker
William H. Loewen
Avon MacFarlane
John R. MacInnis
Margaret B. Mackay
Catherine Y. MacKinnon
Don MacMillan
John and Gail MacNaughton
Vincenzo Maida
Colin Hal Marryatt
Janet Marsh
John Marshall
Lesia and William Maxwell
John C. and Margaret
Stanley Maynard
Doris M. (Chisholm) McBean
Heather McCallum
Bob and Nancy McConachie
David McCready
Ian D. Mcgilvray
Rosemarie McGuire
Michael D. McKee
David J. and Patricia McKnight
E. Richard S. McLaughlin
Mark McLean
James M. McMullen
Joseph A. Medjuck and Laurie Deans
Patricia Meredith
Carole Messier-Mirkopoulos
Jeremy Charles Millard
Murray A. Mogan
Jan and Ben Monaghan
Joan C. Moody
Roger D. Moore
Frances Moran
Oskar Morawetz
Thomas P. Muir
Daniel J. Murphy
Norman J. and Nerina Murray
Robert Nam
Alan H. Nelson
David Noble
James A. (Tim) and Mary A. O’Brien
Mary Catherine T. O’Brien
Cristina Oke
Brian and Anneliese O’Malley
Donald A. Organ
Desmond and Pamela O’Rorke
Christopher D. Palin and Susan E. Middleton
Jocelyn Palm
Barbara D. Palmer
Joseph Charles Paradi
Norm Paterson
Teresa Patullo-Bosa
Peter Pauly
Todd P. Penner
John R. S. Pepperell
Paul J. and Patricia R. Phoenix
Andrew Pierre
Anne Marie Pigott
Gordon Poole
Christine J. Prudham
Boris Pulec
Borden C. Purcell
Paul J. Ranalli
Ruth Redelmeier
Donald and Nita Reed
Michael Jan Reedijk
Marie A. Restivo
Russell A. Reynolds
Richard K. Reznick
Douglas Richards
Paul Richards
Marty and Ronnie Richman
Paul and Susan Riedlinger
Carol Rodgers
Kelly Rodgers
Lorne Rotstein
Ori Rotstein
Colin Rowland
Lucia Lee Rubaszek and Andy Rubaszek
Barry Rubin
Raymond R. Sackler
Sal and Sheila Sarraino
Reza Satchu
Walter Warwick Sawyer
Marla Schacter and Kevin Jay Hanson
Emil Schemitsch
J. Michael Schiff
Larry E. Seeley
Shauna L. Sexsmith
Brigitte Shim
Barbara Shum and Manos Vourkoutiotis
Steve Shuper
Julie C. Silver
Meredith and Malcolm Silver
Marita Simbul Lezon
Ian Simmie
Monty and Judy Simmonds
Charles and Lynne Simon
John H. Simpson
Patricia Simpson
Henry Slaby
Gordon R. and Margaret J. Slemon
Stephen and Jane Smith
Steven P. Smith
Timoteo Soto
Arthur Spoerri
Duncan J. Stewart
John David Stewart
Bert and Barbara Stitt
Andrew T. Stuart
Janet Stubbs
Frederick S. Sturm
Berul and Edith Sugarman
Nancy Sullivan
Neil Annie Sumner
Philip D. Symmonds
The Tanny Family
Joseph and Marcella Tanzola
Allan S.Tauber
Bryce Taylor
Ian and Kathleen Taylor
K. Denton Taylor
Willard B.Taylor
Laverne Taylor-Smith
Ian W.Telfer
James M.Tory
Ann E.Tottenham
Natalie Townsend
Gwenn R.Trout
Christina Ching Tsao
Tom Tsirakis
Edward T. Unger
Sandra K. Upjohn
David R. Urbach
John Voss and June Li
Stephen M. Waddams
C. Ann Wainwright
Conrad and Rosemary Walker
Paul B.Walters
H. M.Walton
Peter Warrian
Derek John Watchorn
Alex R.Waugh
John Wedge and Patty Rigby
Mark Weisdorf and Lorraine Bell
Lilian and Gordon Wells
Alan White
Margaret White
Lenard Whiting
Lorne T.Wickerson
Doreen M.Williams
George Wilson
Desmond and Eva Wong
Jason Wong
William Wing-Bill Wong
Donald J.Wright
John and Betty Youson
Adam Zimmerman

Advanced Medical Optics (AMO)
Amos Family Trust
David Richard Appert Living Trust
Arts & Science Students’ Union
Associates of University of Toronto at Mississauga
Association of Part-Time Undergraduate Students at the University of Toronto
ATI Technologies Inc.
The Jane Austen Society of North America – Toronto Chapter
Avenue Travel Limited
Baker & McKenzie
Basilian Fathers
Basilian Fathers of St. Basil’s Parish
Bausch & Lomb Canada Inc.
Begonia Fund at the Toronto Community Foundation
BIO150Y Teaching Team
BMO Fountain of Hope Employees’ Foundation
Bregman Ventures Inc.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Group
Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation of Canada
The Cakery
Canadian Council of Chief Executives
Canadian Institute of Steel Construction
Canadian-Polish Congress
Carnagie Institution of Canada
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
CIBPA Education Foundation
Citytv, Division of CHUM Limited
Maurice Cody Research Trust
Collins & Aikman Plastics Ltd.
Cook Canada Inc.
The Counselling Foundation of Canada
Dainippon Pharmaceutical Company Limited
The Dalglish Family Foundation
Datex-Ohmeda (Canada) Inc.
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
N. M. Davis Corporation Limited
Davis Orthodontics
DelZotto, Zorzi LLP
Eastman Kodak Company
Edwards Charitable Foundation
The Duke Ellington Society Chapter 40
Epilepsy Ontario
Epilepsy Research Fund of Canada
Export Development Canada
Famous Players Media Inc.
Raymond Farquharson Trust
Fisher & Ludlow,A Division of Harris Steel Limited
Fringe Jazz Toronto
Fujisawa Canada Inc.
Gazzola Paving Limited
The Lionel Gelber Foundation
Geranium Corporation
Gilbert’s Law Office
Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
Graduate Architecture Landscape & Design Student Union
Group of Gold Line
The Guitar Society of Toronto
B & B Hamilton Fund at the Toronto Community Foundation
Hannah Rachel Production Services Ltd. (“Take the Lead”)
Hari’s Database Analysis and Consulting Ltd.
Haynes-Connell Foundation
Honda Canada Inc.
Honeywell
The Hospital for Sick Children
Hungarian Helicon Foundation (Ontario)
Inmet Mining Corporation
Irish Cultural Society of Toronto
Julian Jacobs Architects
Jump Branding & Design Inc.
Katedra Foundation
Helen Keller Foundation for Research and Education
Kimbar Corporation
Koch Foundation Inc.
The Kololian Foundation
Later Life Learning
Lea Consulting Ltd.
Lederman Family Foundation
Leukemia Research Fund of Canada
Lewfam Foundation
Lifeline Systems Canada, Inc.
Linamar Corporation
Loblaw Companies Limited
Long & McQuade Musical Instruments
Longboat Roadrunners
Maple Screw Products Ltd.
McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited
The McLaughlin Scholarship Trust Fund
Mercer Human Resource Consulting
MGP Ingredients Inc.
Miller Thomson
Mount Sinai Hospital – Department of Medicine Research Fund
National Life of Canada
Nature’s Earth Products Inc.
The Norfinch Group Inc.
Ontario I.O.O.F. Memorial Research Committee
Ontario Professional Engineers – Foundation for Education
Paliare Roland Rosenberg
Rothstein LLP
Pathology Associates SMH
Pearson Education Canada Inc.
Persian Heritage Foundation
Posluns Family Foundation
Power Corporation of Canada
Procter & Gamble Inc.
Paul & Lea Reichmann Foundation
Rose Family Fund at the Toronto Community Foundation
Janet Rosenberg & Associates Landscape Architects Inc.
Rotary Club of Mississauga West
Saint Elizabeth Health Care
Sanofi-Synthelabo Canada Inc.
Scarborough Campus
Student Union
W. P. Scott Charitable Foundation
Sensor Chem International Corporation
Nathan and Lily Silver Family Foundation
Snell Medical Communication Inc.
The Sound Post
The Sprott Foundation
St. George’s Church
St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Church
St.Thomas’ Church,Toronto
The Samuel W. Stedman Foundation
Stephens Charitable Foundation
Subak Family Foundation
Sun Life Financial
TACC Construction Co. Ltd.
Taiwan Entrepreneur Society Taipei / Toronto
Janet & Herb Tanzer Charitable Fund at the Toronto Community Foundation
Teck Cominco Ltd.
TELUS Mobility
Tilzen Holdings Limited
The Toronto Orthodontic Club
Toronto Public Library Board
UHN-MSH Anesthesia Associates
University Lodge 496 Awards Fund
University of St. Michael’s College
University of Toronto Press Inc.
Van Berkom and Associates Inc.
VC & Co. Incorporated
Victoria Women’s Association
Villa Leonardo Gambin
Whitehots Inc.
The Barbara & Harvey Wolfe Family Charitable Foundation
Women in Capital Markets
The John Zdunic Charitable
Foundation
Zonta Club of Toronto
62 Anonymous Donors

$5,000 to $9,999
Carol L. and Albert Abugov
Harry F. M. and Marian F. K. Ade
Gordon J. Alexander
Alan Alexandroff
Keith Allen
Daniel Almenara
Kathleen and John Ancker
Cheryl M. Anderson
R.William Andrew
Philip Anisman
Bassel Annab and Tracy Talbot
Wayne Antoniazzi
Aldo A. Anzil
E. Kay Armatage
Philip D. Arthur
Irene M. Ashby
Barbara Astman
Ken Aucoin
Zubin Austin
Richard A. Bain
John F. Bajc
R. Roy Baker
Daniel and Wendy Balena
Helen G. Balfour
William Balfour
Peter F. Barker
Karen A. Barnett
Milton J. and Shirley Barry
The Honourable James K. Bartleman
Marion Bassett
Joel A. Baum
Robert and Eve Baxter
Allan L. and Beth Beattie
A. Phelps and Judy (McGill) Bell
Bob Bell
Robert and Patty Bell
Brian P. Bellmore
Joseph Benmergui and Mindy M. Bullion
Christie J. Bentham
Ruth M. Bentley
Roland Bertin
Rob Bicevskis
Robert J. and Mary C. Birgeneau
G. Drummond Birks
Barbara Bishop
Jill E. Black
James Blackmore
Lou A. Blahey
Ronald B. M. Blainey
Ian F. Blake
Jack Bloomberg
David A. Blostein
Chriss and John Bogert
Carolyn and Neil Bornstein
John C. Bothwell
Gerald F. Boulet
Justin C. Bowler
Katherine Anne Boyd
Sharon Bradley
Margaret R. Brait
Fred Brenneman
M. L. Britt
Peter Brock
Elsa Broder
Irvin Broder
Myer Brody
Michael and Patricia Bronskill
Leonard J. Brooks
Ken,Virginia and Bill Brown
Robert C. Brown
Schuyler Brown
Alan S. Brudner
Stephen Brunswick
George and Avis Buckley
John W. Burrows
Susan Busby
Patrick N. Byrne
Thomas and Margaret Byrne
David J. Bythell
J. Leo Cahill
Joy D. Calkin
Margaret Cameron
Beverly Campbell
John Caravaggio
Lora S. Carney
Danielle F. Caron
Brian R. Carr
Fern A. Carrie
Eileen M. Carron
John and Margaret Catto
Ray Chan
Salina Yin-Fong Chan
Wing C. Chan
Ying-Yu E. Chan
Bruce Chapman
Ravi S. Chari and Sharon E. Albers
Gregg Evans Charlton
Catherine R. Charlton Yocom
Lois Chiang
The Cho Family
Chun Wei Choo
Norma Wendy Chou
Sujit Choudhry
Alexander Christ
Kenneth Christie
Fannie S. Chu
Peter T. Chu
Willem and Elleke Claassen
David and Sandra Clandfield
Ruth Hunt Clarke
The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson
John H. C. Clarry
Donald W. Coates
Susan Cohon
Gordon Coleman
Margo Coleman
Robert Colson
James V. Compton
John T. Connor
W. Neville Conyers
Sydney and Florence Cooper and Family
Jill and Noel Cooter
David and Catherine Corcoran
Arnold Saturnino Cordeiro
Patricia R. Cordingley
James A. Coutts
Norma Craig
Allan Crawford
Michael B. Cruickshank
Joseph Cundari
Carole Curtis
Harvey J. Dale
Terence Dalgleish
Paul D. Damp
Thomas d’Aquino
Ardeshir and Renate Dastur
Donald E. Davey
Larry Davies
Michael De Bonis
James W. Delsaut
Janet Dewan
Tejinder Dhami
Prabhjot Singh Dhanoa
Mandeep S. Dhillon
Filomena Di Michele
Dina Dichek
Sarah C. Dickson
Nicholas R. DiGiuseppe
William B. Dingwall
Nick and Angela DiPietro
Sergine (Dosne) Dixon
Neil H. Dobbs
Janice and Anthony Dobranowski
Harvey Dolman
Ann E. Donovan
Florence Drake
Kristine Drakich
Linda Silver Dranoff
Peter D. Dungan
Gerard Dunnhaupt
Sean F. Dunphy
Mahlon M. Dyer
Alexandra M. Easson
C.William J. Eliot
Alexander Epstein
Eli Epstein and Laurie Bilger
Harry Erlich
Martin and Nancy Evans
Azim Fancy
F. Bryson Farrill
Robert A. Fear
Leonard Feigman
Peter and Jean Ferguson
Archie Fine
Beata and Leo FitzPatrick
David Fleck
John A. Fleming
John F. Flinn
David Folk
James E. Fordyce
Shirley E. Forth
Charles S. Foster
Paul E. Foulds
Ronald Paul Fournier
Gray Fowler
Mark and Tressa Fox
C. Lloyd Francis
Lou Frangian
Rivi M. Frankle
William Fredenburg
Lorna Freedman
Ellen B. Freeman
Goldwin French
Vera Frenkel
A. Martin Friedberg
Jacob Friedberg
Jennie Frow
John F. Futhey
Steven and Marsha Gallinger
Bing Siang Gan and Pearl Langer
Helen Gardiner
H. Roger and Kevin Garland
Ann Garnett
Robert F. Garrison
Christopher Geggie and Dawn Berney
Jean and Donald Gibson
Twyla G. Gibson
Susan C. Girard
Norman Glowinsky and Lillian Vine Glowinsky
Dorothea Godt and Ulrich Tepass
Vivek Goel
Martin and Susan Goldberg
Gordon L. Goldenson
Rosemary Goldhar
Stephen Goldhar and Nancy Cohen
Murray Goldman
Frank K. Gomberg
Jack Goodman
Lynn M. Gordon
Helen and Jerry Grad and Family
Douglas and Ruth Grant
Jane N. S. C. Grier
John R.W. Grieve
V. Jean Griffiths
Robert N. Gryfe
H. Donald Guthrie
Jack Gwartz
Daniel A. Haas
Tennys and J. Douglas Hanson
Patricia M. and Barry C. Harbroe
Madelyne Gaye Harnick
W. Peter Harris
Gerald Hart
William and Janet Hatanaka
James F. and Bonnie A. Hauser
Kathy Hay
Gerald R. and Geraldine Heffernan
Ann and Lyman Henderson
John E. Henderson
Mary Frances and Keith Hendrick
Robert W. Henry
Garrett Herman
Marie Hilgemier
Kathleen B. Hill
Thomas G. Hill
W. Godfrey Hill
Katherine M. Hilton
Diane Hindman
James D. Hinds
Samuel J. Hirsch
Susan S. S. Ho
Liz Hoffman
David Hogg
Patrick Purdy Holden
Warren R. Holder
John S. Holladay
Philip and Claire Holloway
Siim Holmberg
Janis D. Hoogstraten
Lori Howard and Clyde Keene
Lynne C. Howarth
John Hull
Sylvia L. Hunter
Bernard and Betty Hurley
Robert P. Hutchison and Carolyn Kearns
Edward Iacobucci
Frank and Nancy Iacobucci
Raafat and Lobna Ibrahim
Ian Ihnatowycz
Christine Innes and Tony Ianno
Roland Inniss
Donald G. Ivey
Rosamond Ivey
Frederic L. R. (Eric) Jackman
Philip and Diana Jackson
Nadina Jamison
Alexander J. Jancar
David J. Jennings
Alan Joe
Alexandra F. Johnston
David J. and Sandra A. Johnston
K.Wayne Johnston
Phyllis Jones
Derek J. A. Jubb
Mohammad Faisal Kabir
Antony and Hedy Kalamut
Wendy A. Kane
Joel Kaplan
Robert P. Kaplan
Marc Kealey
Sean Patrick Keenan
William and Hiroko Keith
Claire M. C. Kennedy
Paul and Patricia Kennedy
Neil J. Kernaghan
John M. and Elizabeth A. Kerr
Lawrence Kerslake
Edward P.D. and Ann Kerwin
Nzeera Ketter
Gregory M. Kiez
Elizabeth Kilbourn-Mackie
and Richard Mackie
Clara Yang Kim
Sheila M. Kimberley
Ronald Kimel
Stewart E. and Peggy Kingstone
Jack Kirk
Peter Klavora
Karen Knop
Horace Krever
Abhaya V. Kulkarni
John Kurgan
Larry and Colleen Kurtz
Robert S. Laing
Phyllis Lambert
Byron G. Lane
Cynthia and Brian Langille
Brenda Langlois
Judith N. and J. Bruce Langstaff
Philip A. Lapp
Calvin Law
Ross Douglas and Ruth Lawrence
Nai-Yuen Lee
Peter Letkemann
Peter H. Leung
Gudrun E. P. Leutheusser
Virginia and Douglas Leuty
Jonathan Arlen Levin
Norman Levine
Wit Lewandowski
Oscar M. Lewisohn and Family
S. Lichtenstein and M. Stilwell
Kathy Lin
T. F. Lindsay
Theodore C. and Charlene D. Ling
Yuen Chi Liu
Norman Donald Long
Gerard Longval
Robert and Patricia Lord
Stephens B. Lowden
Ron Lowman
John W. Lownsbrough
Randy Luckham
Carl and Barbara Lytollis
Adrian and Donald S. Macdonald
Jean V. Macie
Robert W. MacKay
Hugh G. MacKinnon
Hugh and Laura MacKinnon
Murdo and Elizabeth MacKinnon
Stuart M. MacLeod
Helen MacRae
George M. G. Macri
Gerry Mahoney
Eugene S. Malik
Patricia and Alan Marchment
Shue Ning Mark
James P. Markham
Joe Martin
The Right Hon. Paul Martin
Philip Mass and Ilene Golvin
Eric Massicotte
G. Frank Mathewson
Thomas E. Mathien
Philip O. Maude
Angela and Michael Mazza
John H. McAndrews
Robert J. McBroom
Peter and Sheila McCabe
J.Andrea McCart
Steven M. McCarthy
Anne E. McConachie
James K. McConica
Don McCrossan
Larry McDonald
Andrew McFarlane
Aileen McGrath
Margaret E. McKelvey
Robert D. and Joan McKeracher
Carole G. McKiee
Robin S. McLeod
Wallace and Elizabeth McLeod
Gail M. McQuillan
Esmail Merani
Annand Merdad
Murray R. Metcalfe
Lionel Metrick
Ernest J. Miatello
Bernd Milkereit
C.Arthur Miller
Irene R. Miller
Mary Anne and Chris Miller
Frank G. Milligan
Frank and Patricia Mills
Elliott Arthur Milstein
Steven L. Moate
Kelly Monaghan
H. Alexander B. Monro
Carole R. Moore
Mayo Moran
Herbert and Cathleen Morawetz
John W. Morden
Peter Munsche
John Ferguson and Kellie Murphy
J. Fraser Mustard
Virginia Myhal
David Naylor
Thomas R. Nettleton
Virginia R. and Robert Harold Newman
Paul and Nancy Nickle
John C. Ninfo
Gordon and Janet Nixon
Janet L. Noonan
Patrick Northey
Tom Nowers
John C. Nulsen
David J. and Kathleen Oakden
Edmond G. Odette
Marion (Irwin) O’Donnell
Allen Offman
Shirley Ogden
Marie K. Ogilvie-Stent
R. B. Oglesby
Denise P. O’Hanian
Christopher James Oliveiro
Souit I. Olvet
Geraldine O’Meara Burke
Gloria Orwin
Jan Ottens
Kenneth T. Pace
Natanya Padachey
Emil Pai
Barbara and Rene Papin
Mary Ann Parker
Andrew Parkes
Joan W. (Dixon) Parkes
Erik Parnoja
Antonio Patullo
Lois M. Pearce
Peter Pekos
Jane S. Penney
Shirley Pentland
Carol E. Percy
Paul and Jacqueline Perron
Pina Petricone
Walter F. Petryschuk
Tracey A. Phillips
Mim and Jack Pinkus
Farhad Pirouzmand
Harvin Pitch
Irene Podolak
Edward J. Pong
Ian Potter
Dorothy Pringle
The Quazi Family
H. I. G. Ragg
Judith Ransom
Steven K. Ranson
Nader E. and Soheila G. Rastegar
Flavia C. Redelmeier
Pauline and Newton Reed
Daniel T. Regan
William V. Reid
Raymond M. and Anita Reilly
Edward Charles Relph
Roman Remenda
Murray Love and Susan Retallack
Robin R. Richards
Naomi Ridout
John and Mary Louise Riley
Sandro Rizoli
Lionel and Helaine Robins
Nona Robinson
Francis X. Rocchi
Rosanne T. Rocchi
Ted and Loretta Rogers
Maureen S. Rogers
Ian N. Roher
Wendy L. Rolph
Jack Martin Rose
Jonathan S. Rose
Ted Ross
Elizabeth M. Rowlinson
Edwin Rowse
Sheila Northey Royce
Robert T. and Francine Ruggles
John W. Rutter
Mary Ryrie
Edward and Stella Rzadki
Ramnik K. Sachania
Barry Sacks
Richard O. Sacks
Robert B. Salter
George and Angela Sanders
Francesco Santini
Mohammad J. Sarwar
Fanny Saunders
George Schaller
Hazlon N. Schepmyer
D. F. Daphne Schiff
Vernon B. Schneider
Ken Schnell
Doreen and Robert Scolnick
Geoffrey B. Seaborn
Anne Seaman
Pavel Sectakof
Johanna Sedlmayer-Katz
Corrine Sellars
The Semchism Family
Berge N. Shalvardjian
Kim Shannon and Ho Sung
Gerald Sheff and Shanitha Kachan
Ben Z. Shek
Theodore Shepherd
Charles and Ruth Sherkin
Owen B. Shime
Jeffrey C. Shin
Patrick Kin-Ying Shiu
John Shnier
Cheryl Shook
Tillie Shuster
David P. Silcox and Linda Intaschi
Florence and Al Silver
Mark Silver
Ann M. Simard
P. J. (Rocky) Simmons and Louvaine Piggott
Beverley and Thomas Simpson
Ward E. M. Simpson
Joel Singer and Providenza Cancilla
Sidney Singer
Margaret Sisley
Arthur Slutsky
John E. and Gayle Smallbridge
Andrew J. Smith
Derek A. Smith
Donald Smith
Vera Yvonne Smith
Irene Mo-Kit So
Subhash Sodha
Peter H. Solomon
Lorne Sossin
John R. Speare
Ralph Spence
Kenneth Henry Stead
Robert Steinberg
Georgina Steinsky-Schwartz
Michael Stephen
Yaron Sternbach
Marko Stevanovic
Hamish Stewart
Ian and Christine Stewart
James D. Stewart
Boris Stoicheff
Brian Stowe
Brent Johnston and Meredith Strong
Harvey T. Strosberg
Larry Stubbs
Harry Sutherland
Tom and Marilyn Sutton
Carol Swallow
C. Burke Swan
Imelda M. H.Tan
Andrew Taylor
Judith Ann Teichman
John M.Templeton Jr.
Mary and Robert Thomas
Doris A.Thompson
Herbert J.Title
Robin Tityk
William G.Todd
J. Michael and Naomi Tomczak
Frank Peter Tonon
Barbara K.Track
Olev Trass
Michael J.Trebilcock
Lorraine N.Tremblay
J.A.Trist
Philip M.Trott
Nghia Truong
W. R.Twiss
Nora Underwood and Tim Powis
Jean Vale
Taufik A.Valiante
Bill and Sarah VanderBurgh
Elizabeth (Eastlake) Vosburgh
Linda Vranic
John and Margie Wagner
F. Michael Walsh
Nadia Walter
Kathleen Graham Ward
Thomas Washer
David J.Watt
James W.Watt
Gordon E.Webb
Allan Howard Weinbaum
Ernest Weinrib
Tanny Wells
Jeffrey W.Welsh
Richard Wernham and Julia West
David E.Wesson
Alisa Weyman
Edward Wheeler
Catharine Isobel Whiteside
Glen Whyte
Margaret L.Whyte
Reginald E.Y.Wickett
Blossom T.Wigdor
John A.Wildman
Noelle-Dominique Willems
Owen S.Williams
Bernice Carolyn Willis
Bill Wilson
Elizabeth A.Wilson
Peter A.Wilson
Thomas A.Wilson
Thomas and Elizabeth Wilson
Florence and Mickey Winberg
Kyle Winters and Howard Rideout
Carol and David Wishart
Michael H. K.Wong
Thomas D.Woods
Ron Wootton
James M.Wortzman
Frances C.Wright
Harold Wu
Alfred Yang
Kane G.Yee
Peter K. H.Yeung
Tony W.Y.Yu
Eberhard H. Zeidler
Alex X. Zhang
Ling Zhang
Aviva Zukerman Schure and Peter Schure

596493 Saskatchewan Ltd.
Joel Alleyne Inc.
The Alva Foundation
Anspor Construction Ltd.
Architects Alliance
Baghai Developments Ltd.
Baird Sampson Neuert Architects Inc.
BBT Development Inc.
Benign Essential
Blepharospasm Canadian Research Foundation, Established by Sam and Olga Meister
S. M. Blair Family Foundation
The Boston Consulting Group
Bregman + Hamann Architects
Brumara Foundation
Burgundy Asset Management Ltd.
Edward Burtynsky Photography
The Cadillac Fairview
Corporation Limited
Caldwell Securities Ltd.
Canadian Association of
Chain Drug Stores
Canadian Auto Association (CAA)
The Canadian Foundation for Investor Education
Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies
Canadian Italian Business & Professional Association of Toronto
Canadian Tire Foundation for Families
Cappola Foods Inc.
The Catholic Women’s League of Canada
CDS Pharmacy Group
Centerra Gold Inc.
Coulter’s Pharmacy
Credit Union Central of Ontario
Wolodymyr George Danyliw Foundation
Davis Innes LLP
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Dentistry Canada Fund
Embanet Corporation
Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
Epstein Cole
Charles F. Fell Charitable Trust
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation
The FinAid Foundation
First Canadian Title Company Ltd.
The Fitness Institute Foundation – The Toronto Community Fdn.
Forest Products Association of Canada
Franklin Templeton Investments
George R. Gardiner Foundation
General Motors of Canada Limited
Glycaemic Index Testing Inc.
Charles and Marilyn Gold Family Foundation
Grace Church on the Hill
Greater Toronto Airports Authority
Pegi Lee Gross & Associates Inc.
Hamilton & District Pharmacists Association
Hariri Pontarini Architects
Heenan Blaikie, S.E.N.C.
HMWR Toronto
HooDoo Films
IEEE Canada – Toronto Section
IMA Explorations Inc.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario
International Life Sciences Institute – North American Branch
Investments Unlimited
Ireland Park Foundation
Kassel’s Pharmacy
Keen Engineering Co. Ltd.
Patrick and Barbara Keenan Foundation
KPMG Canada
Samuel H. Kress Foundation
LBL Holdings Ltd.
Legal Aid Ontario
London Road West United Church
Heather L. Main Memorial Scholarship Fund
Manulife Bank of Canada
McCarthy Tétrault Foundation
McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada Limited
McKellar Structured Settlements Inc.
McLean Budden Limited
Mennonite Historical Society of British Columbia
Microsoft Research Limited
Ministry of Natural Resources – Forests Division
Moffat Kinoshita Architects Inc.
Moriyama & Teshima Architects
Flora Morrison Research
Fund at the Toronto Community Foundation
National Pharmaceutical Sciences Group
Novartis Opthalmics
OMSW – 2002
Ontario Association of Architects
Ontario Power Generation
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Ottawa Carleton Pharmacists’ Association
Pajcov Holdings Inc.
Parkinson Society Canada (Peterborough Chapter)
Peel Pharmacist’s Association
Plan B Office
Priva Computers Inc.
PWU Training Inc.
Quadrangle Architects Limited
Rotary Club of Mississauga – Airport
Rotary Club of Mississauga City Centre
RSM Richter
Sack Goldblatt Mitchell
Sackville Recordings
Sage Investments Limited
Scaramouche Restaurant
Geoffrey B. Scott Memorial Fund at the Toronto Community Foundation
Sharp Electronics of Canada Ltd.
The Gerald Sheff Charitable Foundation
Christopher Shelton
Scholarship Fund at the Toronto Community Foundation
Sobeys Pharmacy
Society of Urologic Surgeons of Ontario
St. James’ Cathedral
Standard Securities Capital Corporation
Stantec Architecture Ltd.
TD’s Caring and Sharing Hope Fund
Teplitsky, Colson
Tom’s Place
Topax Export Packaging Systems
Torkin Manes Cohen & Arbus
Toronto and Area Road Builders Association
Toronto Professional Fire Fighter’s Association
Toronto Star Fresh Air Fund
Torys LLP
Tridel Enterprises Inc.
United Parcel Services Canada Ltd.
University of Toronto Italian Canadian Association
UnumProvident Canada
U of T Women’s Association
UTBAA – University of Toronto Black Alumni Association
Vanbots Construction Corporation
Van-Rob Stampings Inc.
WB Family Foundation
Wellington Square United Church
Western Ontario Druggist Golf Association
The Wiegand Memorial Foundation Inc.
Wireless Interactive Medicine Inc.
Women’s Musical Club of Toronto Centennial Foundation
Xerox Research Centre of Canada
The Youssef-Warren Foundation
54 Anonymous Donors

Gifts-in-Kind
This list recognizes donors who have exclusively made gifts in kind of $5,000 or more to the University of Toronto between January 1, 2004 and April 30, 2006.

Marjorie Abrams
Elizabeth Anne and Hugh Anson-Cartwright
E. Kay Armatage
Barbara Astman
David and Jane Gray Atkins
James Davidson Bain
Helen G. Balfour
Dennis and Alice Bartels
John Beckwith
Gerald E. Bentley Jr. and Elizabeth B. Bentley
Susan Berta
Henry B. M. Best
Edward T. Bird
Christine F. Bissell
G. Bisztray
J.W. Michael and Elizabeth J. Bliss
Ronald L. Bloore
Harald and Jean Bohne
Frances and Jeffrey Botnick
Paul A. R. Bouissac
Robert C. Brandeis
Thomas F. S. Brown
Lucie Bryan
Pier K. Bryden
Walter and Danuta Buczynski
Leah Burke
James B. Campbell
Robert Cappell
Douglas Chambers
Chun Wei Choo
Eileen Davidson Clairmonte
Leonard Cohen
Jody Colero
Muriel B. Conacher
Evelyn and C. Graham Cotter
Donald B. Cross
Paul D. Cross
Robert B. Cross
Frances Dafoe
Robert G. and Mary Dale
Cathy Daley
Horst Dantz
Kathleen Devecseri
Dan Donovan
Florence Drake
Albert Dukacz
James and Elizabeth Eayrs
Scott M. Eddie
Konrad Eisenbichler
Bernard Etkin
John Ezyk
Harry Fauquier
Rudy W. Fearon
George Fetherling
Joy Fielding Seyffert
Elizabeth Fincham
John A. Foreman
Dulce Fry
Robert Fulford
Arnold Gelbart / Galafilm Inc.
Stephen G. Gilbert
Mary Gilliam
Anne Marie-Christine Godlewska
Karol J. M. Godlewski
Marie-Christine Godlewski
Mark J. C. Godlewski
Paul Godlewski
Shelagh Goldschmidt
Sybil Goldstein
Lorna Goodison and Ted Chamberlin
Greg Gormick
John Gould
Ruth E. Gregory
Rachile Lialia Griffith
Richard W. Griffiths
Phyllis Grosskurth
Helen Bircher Guillet
James E. Guillet
Martha Hardy
David Hare
Jean-Charles Hare
John E. Hare
Paul A. Hare
Maureen I. F. Harris
John E. F. Hastings
Conrad E. Heidenreich
Mary Heimlich
Peter Heyworth
W. Speed Hill
Michael Hirsh
David Hlynsky
Deborah Hobson
Cynthia Hoekstra
Ernest Howard
Marshall J. L. Hryciuk
Colleen Hutton
Eric Hutton
Gary Hutton
Jim Hutton
Barbara Ann and Lawrence Hynes
John M. Irwin
Robin and Heather Jackson
R. Scott James
Steven S. Janes
William Johnston
William Kaplan
Brian M. Katchan
Talivaldis Kenins
Penny Kerpneck
Elizabeth Kilbourn-Mackie
and Richard Mackie
John Kissick
Susan and Morris Klayman
George J. Kleiser
Helen H. Knights
George Korey-Krzeczowski
Eva Kushner
Lila M. Laakso
Richard Landon
Simon Langlois
Robert Lantos, Serendipity Point Films
Heather Lawson
Lee L’Clerc
W. H. Le Riche
Michael Levine and John Gilford Moore
Michelle Lewin
Peter K. Lewin
R. Douglas Lloyd
Kurt Loeb
Stuart W. Logan
Sara S. MacLean
Michael Maclear
Paul Robert Magocsi
Alberto Manguel
Rosemary Marchant
Robert and Renwick Matthews
Oonah McFee
John McGreevy
John T. McLeod
Brian D. McLoughlin
Maria Meindl
Farley Mernick
Michael and Jane Millgate
Albert Moritz
Desmond Neill
Peter W. Nesselroth
Peter M. Newman and Susan Keene
Solomon A. Nigosian
Cynthia M. O’Beirne
Mariel P. O’Neill-Karch and Pierre Karch
Eric Ormsby
David M. Oxtoby
Susan E. Oxtoby
Brock Park
R. Brian Parker
Luana Maria Peters
Ronald G. Peters
Victor Peters
Jennifer Phillips
Margaret W. Phillips
Judith Pocock
John C. Polanyi
Dalia and Ginutis Procuta
Anatol Rapoport
Samuel A. Rea
John H. Reibetanz
Janet Richard
Stephen Riggins
Erika E. Ritter
Peter H. Russell
Anne Ryckman
F. Michah Rynor
John and Carol Sabean
Antony Scherman
Miriam Schneid-Ofseyer
Thomas T. Schweitzer
Johanna Sedlmayer-Katz
François Séguin
Fred H.W. and Roswitha Seliger
David P. Silcox and Linda Intaschi
Judy A. Silver
Paul Skowronski
Josef V. Skvorecky
John G. Slater
Beverley Slopen
Faye Smith Rosenblatt
David Solway
Rosemary E. J. Speirs
John Stanley
Ralph Gordon Stanton
T. A. G. Staunton
John Steinsky
Mavis Stonefield
Kazimierz Stys
Rosemary Sullivan
Larry A. Swartz
Arlette and Frank Thomas
Susan Coxeter Thomas
Craig Thorburn and Cynthia Caron Thorburn
Margo Timmins
Michael Timmins
Peter Timmins
Myrtle Todd
Rhea Tregebov
Joyce Trimmer
Tamara Trojanowska
Millicent Tuck
Mihkel Turk
Christopher Varley
F. Michael Walsh
John B.Warrener
F. Bartlett Watt
Tim Whiten
Fred Wilson
Thomas A.Wilson
David Young
Vladek Zogala

Ballan Carpentry and Millwork Limited
Barna-Alper Productions Inc.
Blue Rodeo
Bookham Technologies
Brand Voice Inc.
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Celestica
Deluxe Toronto Ltd.
Eaton | Powerware
Frontline Solutions Ltd.
Johnson Controls
KCI Medical Canada Inc.
Lindberg Homburger
Modent
Locust International Inc.
Magna Advanced Technologies
Now Communications Inc.
Redwood Classics Apparel
S. & S. Productions Inc.
Sakura Project / Sakura Committee
Selections Woodworking Design Inc.
Sports Rehabilitation Institute
Sunsplash Design+
Wilson Sports Equipment Canada Inc.

Corporate Matching Gifts
We would like to acknowledge the generosity of corporations who match charitable contributions made by their employees, directors, retirees and their spouses to the University of Toronto between May 1, 2005, and April 30, 2006.To find out if your company is a matching gift partner, please call (416) 978-3810 or visit www.giving.utoronto.ca/annual/matchgift.asp.

3M Canada
Accenture Foundation Inc.
Alcan
Anthos Canada Inc.
AstenJohnson
Bank of Montreal
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (Canada)
Barclays Global Investor
Bell Canada
Canadian Pacific Railway Limited
CanWest Global
Communications Corp.
Carrier Canada Limited
Celestica
CGC Inc.
Commonwealth Insurance Company
ConocoPhillips Canada
CSX Corporation
DaimlerChrysler Canada Inc.
Deutsche Bank
Dow Chemical Canada Inc.
Eli Lilly and Company Foundation
Ernst & Young
FM Global Foundation
Ford Matching Gift Program
Ford Motor Company of Canada Limited
GAP Foundation Gift Match Program
Bill & Melinda Gates Fdn. Employee Matching Gift Program
GE Canada
Goldman Sachs & Company
Green Shield Canada Foundation
H J Heinz Company of Canada Ltd.
IBM Canada Limited
Inco Limited
International Flavours & Fragrances Inc.
Investors Group Inc.
Ivanhoe Cambridge Inc.
Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies
KPMG Foundation
Kraft Canada Inc.
Land O’Lakes Inc.
Lubrizol Canada Limited
Manulife Financial
Marsh & McLennan Companies
Mellon Financial Corporation Fund
Microsoft Corporation
Petro-Canada
Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Program
PPG Canada Inc.
Pratt & Whitney Canada
The Procter & Gamble Fund
State Farm Companies Foundation
Sun Life Financial
Suncor Energy Foundation
SYSCO Corporation
Talisman Energy Incorporated
The Toronto Star
TransCanada PipeLines Limited
Xerox Canada Ltd.
Xerox Corporation

Lasting Legacies
This list recognizes those gifts received by Uof T through realized bequests, trusts or insurance between January 1, 2004, and April 30, 2006.

Donald Sutherland Allan
Margaret May Allemang
Thomas Alley
Jeanne F. E. Armour
Kevin W. Armstrong
Juliet May Askew
Mary E.Atkinson
William John Bennett
Wilfred Gordon Bigelow
Benjamin Herbert Birstein
William Brown Boyd
Elizabeth M. Boyle
Joyce B. Boylen
Donald J.A. Bremner
Margaret I. Brubacher
Robert Bruce
C. L. Burton Trusts
Alice M. Buscombe
Robert William Bygrave
Nora Cecilia Cairnes
Margaret Carleton
Helen M. Carpenter
Samuel Castrilli
Athol Lillian Beatty Cherry
Edith L. Clare
Norah P. Clark
Hilda Clayton
Donald E. Clune
J. E. Geraldine Conger
Kenneth B. Conn
K. Jane Conway
Kathleen A. Cooke
William James Copeman
Edith H. Cosens
J. Douglas Crashley
William Douglas Crone
Elsie F. Dickhout
Frederick and Douglas Dickson Memorial Foundation
Margaret M. Donnell
Thelma C. Dowding
Orville L. Drummond
Peter C. Durham
Sydney Dymond
Mary Margaret Edison
Germaine Francoise Efrain
Eugene R. Fairweather
Frances Eden Ferguson
John Charles Fields
Thomas F. Foster
Frederick Hume Foxton
Virginia M. Frank
Janet Agnes Fraser
Mary Kathleen Geddes
Margaret Giffen
Jean Glasgow
Beatrice C. Glasier
Olive L. Gordon
Betty C. Graham
John Osborne Graham
Murray Greenbloom
Mary E. Hamilton
Frederick J. Hamlin
Marion Hanna
Eric Ethelbert Hardy
Helen D. Harrison
Sheryl Jane Hayman
Walter John Helm
Gordon W. Hilborn
Ruth Anna Holmboe
Agnes Eleanor Howard
Patricia A. Humphreys-Vance
Bernard E. Hynes
Nancy Innis
Eileen B. Jackson
Charles L. Janis
Edward S. Jarvis
John Dalziel Johnson
Florence Jowsey
Karolina A. Jus
Oriana Kalant
Miet and Wanda Kamienski
Joan Ewart Keagey
Kathleen M. Keeler
Edward J. Kelman
David I. Ker
Kenneth Raffles Kilburn
Charles Leo Labine
Michael Lawee
Stuart C. Legge
Donald W. Leonard
John F. Leonard
Reuben Wells Leonard
Margaret Jean Leppington
John Bruce Henderson Little
Anna B. Loftus
Alexander E. MacDonald
Pauline Mandlsohn
Ivy M. Maynier
J. Edgar McAllister
John Robertson McArthur
Rhoda Royce McArthur
In Memory of Marian
Eleanor McBryde from William A. E. McBryde
Muriel G. McCuaig
Helen Jean McCutcheon
Donald F. McDonald
W. J. Kent McDonald
Pauline M. McGibbon
Lorne Douglas McGolrick
John Spence McIntosh
Sarah McLean
Sarah Grace Mead
John Meagher
Theophile James Meek
David Meltzer
Isabel Mendizabal
William C. Michell
Peter H. Miller
A. B. B. Moore
Hugh and Phyllis (Foreman) Moorhouse
John F. Morgan-Jones
Margaret I. Morris
Robina D. Morrison
James Leslie Morrow
Mary Mounfield
William K. Mounfield
Anne A. Muise
Violet B. Munns
Mary Edythe Neeb
Vivien Nicklin
Fabian Aloysius O’Dea
Edward H. O’Keefe
Michael J. Oliver
Harvey Olnick
Tony Mark Omilanow
Ernst M. Oppenheimer
Janet Parr
H. G. Campbell Parsons
Florence G. Partridge
Audrey L. Peach
Beverley Ann Phillips
Jean E. Pierce
Aileen M. Piper
Mary Elizabeth Pitt
Dora Burke Playfair
Francis Clement Powell
Manuel E. Pusitz
William F. L. Rathman
James H. Rattray Memorial Trust
Amy Beatrice Reed
Pauline Anne Reinboth
Olive-Jane Reynolds
Harold V. Rice
Dorothy G. Riddell
Norma Ruth Ridley
Clifton Graham Roberts
Jerome S. Rotenberg
Dorothy Rutherford
Linda Darlene Sagar
Peter and Margot Sandor
Fanny Saunders
Rose Lynne Scott
Dee and Hank Selick
Colin R. Sellar
Robert Simkins
W. Lennox Smart
Carlton G. Smith
Gladys Sparks
Merrill Stafford
Catherine I. Steele
Gray M. Steele
Mary Stephens
J. I. (Hud) Stewart
Stratton Trust
Kathleen Sally Syme
Gertrude Tackaberry
Howard Alan Tate
Georgia Muriel Taylor
J. Marie Taylor
Arthur L .Thomson
Linda Lauren Timbs
Clarence Trelford
Doris Trott
Charles W. Trunk Jr.
Marjorie L.Van Veen
Janet Elizabeth Waite
William James Walker
Kathleen Walls
Dorothy Ward
Flora M.Ward
Stanley H.Ward and Shirley A.Ward Revocable Trust
Isabel C.Warne
Douglas G.Watson
Betty Irene West
Anne Louise White and Walter Edmund White
Minnie White
Lois H.Wightman
Florence Wilkinson
B. M.Williams
Dorothy Evelyn Willmot
Agnes E.Wood
Shirley Ann Yasuzawa

King’s College Circle Heritage Society
The King’s College Circle Heritage Society recognizes and honours those alumni and friends who have thoughtfully made a provision for the university through a future bequest, life insurance or trust gift between January 1, 2004, and April 30, 2006.

Lillias Cringan Allward
Kristine Anderson
Ronald Andrukitis
T. Christie Arnold
Joseph Attard
Everett Corson Barclay
Dennis and Alice Bartels
Grace V. Becker
Peter Beynon
Dorothy I. M. Black
Harald and Jean Bohne
Erika Dorthea Lina Boldt
William R. Bowen and Sandra J. Gavinchuk
T. Rodney H. Box
Patrick and Marilyn Brown
David Brownfield
Frank C. Buckley
Eleanor J. Burton
Donald Burwash
Yvonne M. Calver
William A. Campbell
Dan Camposano
K. C. Carruthers
George Cass
Alayne and Kenneth Christie
E. Murray Cleland
Brian Clough
Patricia A. Coleman
Ron Crawford
Dana Cushing
Margaret Jeannetta Davis
Jan and Jane de Koning
Dorothy M. Deane
William Andrew Dimma
Michael Faraday Dixon
Ingrid and Karl-Ulrich (Uli) Dobler
Maria L. Dyck
Freda M. Eickmeyer
Jacqueline and Douglas Eisner
Mary A.T. Elson
Margaret E. Emmerson
Caroline Seidl Farrell-Burman
William O. Fennell and Jean Fennell
Michael J. Ferguson
Gary Vincent Fitzgibbon
John F. Flinn
Donald H. Francis
Hugh R. Fraser
Teena Bogner and Ian Gaskell
V. K. Gilbert
Doug Green
Helen Gurney
Patricia Hannah
Terry Harris
Rosemary Hall Hazelton
J. Barrett Healy
Kim and Alex Heath
Barbara J. Heggie
Grace Heggie
Sandra J. Heggie
Ruth Ellen Henstridge
Fay Hethrington Scholarship
Anna Alfreda Hillen
Peter and Verity Hobbs
James D. Hosinec
Robert and Velma Howie
Audrey Hozack
George Conland Hunt
Marnie Hunt
Robert D.and Catherine I. Jeffs
Archibald and Helen Jones
Leon Katz and Johanna
Sedlmayer-Katz
David Keenleyside
Paul Keery
William and Hiroko Keith
Arthur P. Kennedy
Seitali (Babe) and Mary Kerim
Jodi and Michael Kimm
Barbara E. and Edwin S. Kirkland
Rose Kirsh
Peter Klavora
Albert Krakauer
Robert and Carolyn Lake
Maryam Latifpoor and Vladas Keparoutis
Grace Lau
Enrique J. B. Lopez De Mesa
Burton MacDonald and Rosemarie Sampson
Sharon and Don MacMillan
Michael and Joan Maloney
Mary H. Martin
Dipak and Pauline Mazumdar
Sybil Anne McEnteer
Judith McErvel
Joseph Patrick McGee
Nancy H. McKee Condliffe CRUT
Donald W. McLeod
Dorothy McRobb
Gilbert Meyer
Angela and William Moreau
Chastity Cheryl Pangilinan Nazareth
Paul C. S. C. Nazareth
Ann Oaks
Mary Catherine O’Brien
Edmond George Odette
Jean O’Grady
Frances Jean Phoenix
Nora Post
Raymond S. G. Pryke
R. C. Quittenton
Lesley Riedstra and Rian Mitra
Paul E. Riley
William J. Roberts
John D. Robinson
Allen Angus and Violet Rodgers
Peter A. Rogers
Paul Russell
Mary E. Sarjeant
Mary M. Schaefer
Norma Dianne Schilke
Caroline Shawyer
Diane Lynn Silverman
Marjorie E. Simonds
Angela L. Smith
Marion Elizabeth Snyder
Hubert C. Soltan
Roger Spalding
Mickey and Annette Convey Spillane
Janet Stubbs
Dave Szollosy and Lauretta Amundsen
Shirley Catherine Teolis
Catharine F. Thompson
Victoria E. M.Thompson
Barbara K.Track
Carolanne G.Vair
Jean Vale
Lillian Veri
Victor and Sheila Vierin
Scott Brynn Vloet
Paul and Valerie Walsh
John P.Ward
Arthur and Ruby Waters
Elizabeth A.Wells
Paula Carey and Nicholas Wemyss
Mary B.Willet
Nancy J.Williamson
Marjorie A.Wilson
George and Isobel Winnett
Frank W.Woods
Dianne L.Wydeven
Adam Zimmerman
Wendy Zufelt-Baxter

In Honour
The University of Toronto recognizes individuals who have had gifts made in their honour between May 1, 2005, and April 30, 2006.

Susan Abrahams
Rona S. Abramovitch
Carol Ann Akasike
Montague Albert
Dorothy Amos
A. Bram Appel
F. Barry Appleby
Jay Bacher
Sheila Bain
Cornelia Baines
Barbara Banks
Aharon Barak
Helen P. Batty
Robert M. Bennett
Samantha Berman
Norma Bliss
Michelle Broersma
Rorke B. Bryan
Howard S. Buckstein and Danielle Goldfarb
Ronald L. Burkes
Lef Burstyn
June Callwood
Providenza Cancilla
Beverly Caswell
Wendy M. Cecil
John Challis
Lorne Chapnick
Christena Chruszez
John H. and Mary E. Clark
Mary Cone Barrie
George and Sheila Connell
Frank A. Cunningham
Ronald J. Daniels
Bryan P. Davies
Jon S. Dellandrea
Sandra DelZotto
Helen Dunlop
Aaron Charles Egier
Charles Elkabas
Patricia G. Erickson
John R. and Gay Evans
E. Patricia Fleming
Catherine Ford
Allen J. Frantzen
John J. Furedy
L.Terrell Gardner
Reginald D. Gemmell
Max Gluskin
Sid Gottlieb
Mary Grah
Raphael Emile Greene
Bonnie Gries
Alan Gross
George Gross
Ralph Halbert
Michael J. Hare
W. Bernard Herman
Adam Herst
Murray Herst
Sherherazade Hirji
Samuel Hollander
Ed Holm
Alexandra Houston
Maude Houston
Jeffrey J. Hurwitz
Frank Iacobucci
Stewart Ingles
John Peter Jarrett
Khursheed N. Jeejeebhoy
Dinker Joshi
Rita Arbetman Kandel
Sharyl Kates
Clyde A. Keene
Bruce Kidd
Ryan Samuel Kirshenblatt
Andrea Kleinhandler
Michael Kleinhandler
Diane Kriger
David H. Latner
Molyn Leszcz
Eleanor L. Levine
Sheena and Peter Levitt
Donald J. Lingeman
John Lyon
Robert J. F. Madden
J. Francis Mallon
Jill and Geoffrey Matus
Doris M. McBean
James K. McConica
Lillian McGregor
Alistair Stewart McLean and Maggie Pudden
Medicine Class of 2006
Joseph A. Medjuck
Vera Melnyk
Fred Metrick
Leah Millie
Bruce Mitchell
David Mock
Jean Morris
Ross E. Morrow
Heather Munroe-Blum
Yael Newman
Judith E. Nyman
Lillian Nyman
Dimitrios G. Oreopoulos
Rose M. Patten
Mark Pellegrino and Stuart Kent
Hersh Perlis
Paul J. and Jacqueline Perron
Audrey Perry
Malini L. Persaud
Karen Pomotov
Terry Promane
Anatol Rapoport
Cheryl Regehr
Anne Grace Ritchie
Stephen J. Rogers
Linda R. Rothstein
Roseann Runte
Ricky K. Schachter
Ernest Schnell
Laurel Schwartz
Renee Seigel
Chandrakant P. Shah
Sheila K. Shaw
Owen B. Shime
Molly Shoichet
C. Anderson Silber
Frank Silver
Earl R. Simard
Lawrence B. Smith
Joe Ting-Hei and Lai Kwan So
Honey Spitzen
Jeffrey G. Sprang
Paula Ann Square
Eric G. Stanley
Cynthia Stessel
Eleanor Beecroft Stewart
Norma Sussman
Jason Tanny
Jean Tanny
Jeremy Tanny
Stephen Tanny
Kenneth D.Taylor
Martin Teplitsky
Carolyn J.Tuohy
M. M.Van Camp
Gillian Varkul
John A.Vivash
B. Elizabeth Vosburgh
Joseph E.Walsh
Betty and Graeme Ward
William Waters
John H.Watson
Alexander R.Waugh
John H.Wedge
Joseph Whitney and Diana Baxter
Simon Woo
Russ Wooldridge
S.Adrian Yaffe
Morden Yolles
Safwat Zaky

In Memory
The University of Toronto recognizes individuals who have had gifts made in their memory between May 1, 2005, and April 30, 2006.

Ralph Abrams
Paul “Red” Adair
Stephanie Lianne Ali
John G. Anderson
Ethel W. Auster
D. Rodwell Austin
Frank S. Ballinger
George Bancroft
Sigitas Barsauskas
Jake Bass
Maureen Anne Bator
Catherine Beck
W. Allan Beckett
Doris Bell
Ralph R. Berger
Michael K. Berkowitz
Abraham D. Berlin
Pierre Berton
Wilfred G. Bigelow
Margaret Black
Allan Bloom
John Bradley
Anthony August Brait
Debra Brick
Ronald Bryden
Elizabeth Buller
J. David F. Buller
Lily Buller
Leon C. Bynoe
Lee Calderwood
F.W. Callaghan
Angus Cameron
John Campbell
Marion and Meyer Carr
Victoria E. Carson
Molly Chester
Soo Jin Chong
Hetty C. H. Chu
Gianrenzo P. Clivio
David Coffen
Robert Colgate
John A. Connelly
Mary L. Coombs
Ruth Cooperstock
Stanley Cord
L. Cossu
George B. Craig
E. Horne Craigie
Rosaleen Cronin
Keith deGruyther
Doreen E. DesLauriers
Peter L. Dickson
Michael F. Dixon
Edna Donaldson
Stillman Drake
John D. Drigo
Isadore Dubinsky
B. Muriel Eastwood
Charles W. Edmonds
Harry Ellen
John A. Emerson
John W. Emerson
Benjamin Esar
Vassa Evans
A. Ruth Fallis
Shelly Farberman
Claire Feldman
Veronica Fenyves
Janet E. FitzGerald
Spyridon N. Flengas
Janet Follett
Lynd W. Forguson
Mary L. Foster
Neil W. Foster
Estelle Frankel
Isaac Freeman
Iris T. French
Andrew Khamis Frow
Geoffrey Gangbar
Harvey Gellman
Bud Gerry
Gina L. Gesser
Winnifred I. Giguere
Suzette Girard
Samuel Gluckstein
E. Ray Godfrey
Sara Godfrey
Maisie Goldberg
Jerry Goldsmith
Patricia Goldstein
Max Goodman
Patricia Gray
George K. Greason
Joseph H. Greenspan
Suzanne Greenspan
Michael Gregg
Franciszka Grodecka
Lorna Hall
Paul Halligan
Jane Elizabeth Ham
Lisa A. Hamann
Margaret I. Hambly
Phyllis Hantho
Shirley Hardcastle
Eric Ethelbert Hardy
Milton E. Harris
Jackie Hart
Joan F. Hatch
M. Joan Hawley
William A. Heaslip
Larry Helfand
Charles E. Hendry
E. Elaine Henry
Frank Herceg
James F. Hickling
Mary Higgins
Irwin M. Hilliard
John W. Hoag
Anne Holden
Hugh Lewis Hoyles
Bob Hunter
John F. M. Hunter
Arthur Iamarino
Edward B. Irving
Rita Isaac
Ethel Jackson
Janey Jacobson
Wilfred Jacobson
William A. James
Edith Jarvi
Ara Jelderian
Florence Jelderian
Peter Jennings
James F. Johnson
Kimberley A. Johnson
Roy Johnson
Antony Kalamut
Oriana Kalant
Fumiko Kataoka
Wendy M. Kates
M.Aileen Kelly
John Roberts Kenmure
James W. Kerr
Gordon L. Keyes
Karen A. Kieser
Lily King
Lynn King
Mary Anne Maghekan King
Robert Seth Kingsley
William G. Kingsmill
Bessie Kirsh
Lothar Klein
Henry Koren
Simon Korolnek
Dietmar Koslowski
Eric David Baker Krause
Fredrik Krofchick
Marion V. G. Kuhns
Alan Kulan
Joseph Kulyk
Sheila M. Kurtz
Miu B. Lau
Alan K. Laws
Wolf-Dietrich Leers
Arthur Leigh
Charles Leland
Gabriel Leung
Suzanne Levy
Rita G. Lindenfield
William Line
Brian Linehan
Beatrice Lipson
Terry Litovitz
Sim Fai Liu
Kurt Loeb
James Henry MacLachlan
Walter James MacNeill
John F. Madden
Salim Majdalany
Jim Mallinger
John M. Marshall
Lois Marshall
Gilchrist J. Martin
Christina M. McCall
Margaret D. McCarter
Leighton Goldie McCarthy
T. J. Jock McCrossan
Dawne McCulloch
Barry G. McGee
Emma L. McKinnon
Peter E. M. McQuillan
Isabel Mendizabal
Lillian Messinger
Edmund Richard Joseph Milne
A. B. B. Moore
Frederick Charles Moore
Clive B. Mortimer
Ian Moss
Loretta Mostacci
Ray Mulrooney
Brock Myles
David W. Nicholls
James R. O’Brien
C. E. Ogden
Walter A. O’Grady
Albert A. O’Hanian
Robert A. Oldham
Armand Olivennes
St John O’Malley
Dennis O’Shea
Ellis M. Ostovich
Daniel Outar
Martha Ovens
Silvestre Pacheco
Nancy Park
Geoffrey B. Payzant
Douglas R. Peart
M.Ann Pendleton
Howard Pentland
Lawrence Phillips
Kathryn J. Poole
John C. Pope
William J. Prager
Ted Prince
Kathryn Pudden
Lawrence Rae
Joseph Raic
Diana Rankin
Olive-Jane Reynolds
John Richmond
Ralph Crossley Ripley
Mara Rhona Roebuck
Rachel Rohn
Alicia Heather Ross
C. D. Rouillard
Richard Rowland
Howard Rubinoff
Leonard J. Russell
Leslie C. Rylett
Frederick Dunnet Sagel
John D. Salmon
Rene Salsberg
Joan Santon
Fanny Saunders
Stuart Scott
T. Stewart Scott
Douglas M. Seath
Alexandra Semeniuk
Louis Shainhouse
Meyer Shear
Nicky Sher
Harry Shidlowski
Dorothy Shoolman
David Sillers
Ethel Silver
Joseph Silver
Martin Silver
Jean Sinclair
Irwin Singer
Margie Slack
John A. D. Slemin
Les Smale
Anne M. Smith
Evelyn Smith
Daniel Stainton
Philip T. Stanbury
Bryan Wayne Statt
Marvin Steinhardt
John M. Stransman
Maurice Stren
Frank Suma
David Sutherland
Peter Swan
David M. C. Sweeney
Paula Takacs
Ting Sum Tang
Aron Avraham Tanny
Colleen Tate
R. K.Templeton
Jack Tenenbaum
Allan Tennen
Edwin Alexander terBrugge
Irene Thompson
James Thompson
Dorothy Thomson
Sarah R.Tiley
James Toguri
Gregory W.Tostevin
Mary Prudence Tracy
Klaus S.Treviranus
Raymond P.Tripp
David Trott
Florio Valente
Jesus Ernest Julius Vargas
G. Patrick H.Vernon
Mariss Vetra
Elizabeth Vickers
G. Stephen Vickers
Frank Viney
Seymour H.Vosko
Mae Waese
Donald M.Wagg
Lorne Wagner
Walter S.Walter
Dorothy Kathleen Ward
Donald J. H.Warner
George D.Watt
Marilyn Wax
Harry Wayne
Beverly Wedemire
Maryann Wells
Sharon Wells
Ralph Weverman
William Robert Wilson
Maurice Wolpert
Jean E.Woodsworth
Clifford G.Woolfe
Sanford I.World
Patrick Wormald
John A.Wright
Vincent Wroblewski
Betty Yeoman
Johnny Kar Lok Yip
Donna Zielinski

President’s Circle
Presidents’ Circle members have provided vital resources to educate deserving students, attract and retain great faculty, and build innovative faculties and programs through their annual leadership giving.Thank you to all of our Presidents’ Circle members for their foresight, leadership and generosity. To view monthly listings of new and renewed Presidents’ Circle members, please visit our website at www.giving.utoronto.ca/prescircle. For more information about the Presidents’ Circle program, please contact (416) 978-3810.

In his speech, Kielburger challenged U of T to become the first post-secondary institution in Canada to require students to perform community service to receive their degree. Kielburger wants each student to provide 100 hours of service over four years. He sees this not only as a way for students to contribute to the world around them, but also to grow as citizens. “My greatest memories [of U of T] are not only of the professors and the classes,” he told UTAA members, “but also the volunteer time I spent with students – nurturing not only our minds but also our hearts, our souls and who we are as humans in service to our community, our nation and our world.”

A few days after Kielburger’s speech in September, some 2,000 U of T students, staff and faculty fanned out across the city to volunteer for a day – doing everything from running a Special Olympics soccer tournament to collecting garbage from riverbanks. The Day of Service allowed U of T community members an opportunity to see first-hand how their academic goals can fit into larger principles of community service and civic engagement. The university plans to repeat the event annually.

In this issue, we list the names of people and organizations – as we do each year – who have made major financial contributions to the university. But this year, we also pay tribute to alumni who have donated a large chunk of time to their alma mater. The alumni profiled here are all winners of Arbor Awards, which recognize volunteers for outstanding personal service to the university over a number of years.

U of T professors also volunteer their time; many are called upon to provide opinions to the media, as well as advise on matters of municipal, provincial and national policy. In this issue, University Professor Janice Gross Stein contributes an essay on the thorny issue of religious and equality rights, and the difficulties that arise when they come into conflict with each other. Professors are also involved with the City of Toronto in devising better ways of handling the municipality’s growing trash problems.

Many religions value volunteer work, believing, as Kielburger does, that it nurtures the soul. Writer Allen Abel takes a look at the state of the U of T student’s soul in a story that illuminates the role religion plays on campus. Although it is a strictly secular institution, U of T acknowledges the importance of spirituality in students’ lives and will open a new MultiFaith Centre early next year – in part to foster greater understanding among all faiths.

A reminder: if you feel inspired to write, please enter our Alumni Short Story and Poetry Contest. Send us a previously unpublished story or poem by March 1, 2007, and you could win $1,000 and publication in our summer issue.

In reply, let me emphasize first that alumni are the university’s best ambassadors, the living legacy of the institution. Their successes are the finest advertisement imaginable for the transformative impact of a U of T education.

Alumni are also engaged as volunteers in a huge number of capacities. Alumni interview prospective students, help to choose scholarship and bursary recipients, mentor current students and advise faculty and administrators on research and educational issues. (For more information, follow the “Stay Connected” link from www.alumni.utoronto.ca.)

The University of Toronto Act reserves eight seats on the university’s Governing Council for alumni governors. The U of T Alumni Association (UTAA) intersects with the central alumni relations office, but there are 26 alumni groups at the faculty or college level, representing divisions with authority to recommend the awarding of a degree or postsecondary diploma. These groups are part of the College of Electors that chooses alumni governors. Leaders of those divisional alumni bodies also connect with the UTAA through a council of alumni presidents. And the UTAA executive, led by President Michael Deck, is committed to ensuring that all divisional alumni groups are better connected with each other and the university-at-large. This is a shift that, in Canadian parlance, can be seen as going from a federal to a more national perspective.

More generally, we are committed to strengthening alumni relations across all of our many faculties, campuses and colleges. Our goal is to foster a sense of community among our more than 400,000 graduates, wherever life takes them.

How to accomplish this worthy goal? Face-to-face meetings are the best way to develop relationships, so we are looking at ways of enhancing programming for Spring Reunion and other events to attract even more graduates back to campus. In the last academic year, almost 300 divisionally based alumni events took place, many at U of T. We have also expanded the number of events held abroad, including receptions in such diverse locations as Melbourne, Jerusalem, Delhi, Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai and Taipei.

We don’t have the resources to see all U of T alumni in person, so we rely on publications and e-mail to keep alumni informed. Almost every division produces an alumni publication, and E-News, an electronic compendium of news from around campus is sent monthly to more than 100,000 grads. The university has developed an extensive website, where alumni can find everything from academic departments to news from The Bulletin, and plans are underway to create a more extensive online community for U of T grads.

And yes, we do ask our alumni for financial support and they give very generously. In 2005-06, pledges and gifts from all sources reached $101.7 million, the highest since 2000-2001; a remarkable 84 per cent of the individual gifts last year came from alumni. But alumni can rest assured that we also seek and receive support from other sources. For example, about 60 per cent of the 2005-06 dollar total came from non-alumni supporters as well as foundations and corporations. All of these gifts have made a real difference. A simple example: during The Campaign that ended on December 31, 2003, we raised more than $500 million for student aid through direct gifts and leverage from government matching programs. These funds will directly support the next generations of U of T students.

These succeeding generations will be the successful alumni of tomorrow – for another 179 years and beyond. They – and you – embody the raison d’être of the University of Toronto. Whenever you graduated, thank you for bringing your talents and energy to U of T as a student; and thank you for staying connected as an alumna or alumnus of Canada’s great university.

Topping, a second-year English student, has created a set of images that cast the overfamiliar stations in a new light.When you look at the photos, you don’t find yourself thinking of stale air, aggravating delays, zombie riders or mint green tiles. He manages to make even the ultra-drab hallway between the east-west and north-south portions of Spadina Station worth looking at.Topping’s lens seems to locate the beauty in the ordinary, homing in on overlooked design features, hidden bits of personality, colour and contrast in each station. His eye for formal composition projects a sense of a system – and a city – well-built and well-functioning.

During his travels,Topping discovered a cross-section of the city he’s lived in his whole life but knew little about – except for a well-worn path between Dundas West (where he grew up) and Bay (near his Victoria College residence).As part of his project, Topping left the subway stations and explored the adjacent neighbourhoods.“The areas you expect to be bad aren’t bad at all and the areas you expect to be good aren’t that good,” he says.

And while he swears the TTC isn’t paying him for the promo,he did have a tête-à-tête with TTC top boss Howard Moscoe who admitted that even he had not been to all 69 stations.

So which Toronto subway station, after so much dedicated study, is Topping’s favourite? Dundas West. It may not feature art or lots of natural light, but it’s home, he says. View Topping’s photos at http://69stations.com.

What were Chinese-U.S. relations like before the meeting between Nixon and Mao? There were no direct relations. Very few people from the West had ever been there. Nobody knew what was going on – it was mysterious. And the Chinese had the same view of North America. It’s really like North Korea today – who knows what’s going on there?

The conversation between Nixon and Mao was not particularly substantive – they mostly chit-chatted – but as a symbol it was very meaningful. It was hugely important symbolically, and it did represent something of an earthquake in international relations because suddenly you had two very big countries talking to each other who hadn’t been talking to each other for more than 20 years. It opened the door, just, for the future economic and cultural exchanges that were going to make such a difference.

Did you change your mind about these very big characters you were writing about – Nixon, Mao, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and Chinese Prime Minister Chou En-lai – as you researched? I think you always do. I knew more about Mao than Nixon but usually the more you learn about a person – especially a famous person – you get more depth, you learn about them as human beings. And Nixon… I was so influenced by what happened during Watergate and, I suppose, the tail end of Vietnam, but there was much more to him than that. I hadn’t realized really how well prepared he was to do international relations; he was a great statesman.

What most surprised you? Possibly that I actually found myself coming to rather like Nixon. He was sort of awkward and he had sudden enthusiasms. And he wanted to do things well and he didn’t always get it. You know, he designed these new uniforms for the White House and everybody laughed at them. And he loved Around the World in Eighty Days and that was a sort of touching side to him I thought.

Almost a tragic figure. I think so. I think tragic figures are often those who aspire to be something and don’t make it. They have fatal flaws or they aspire too much and they come crashing down. And I think Nixon wanted to be a great president, a great leader of the United States, and he never quite made it. But he’s a serious figure, he’s not just a buffoon.

What does understanding this meeting and its history help us understand about today? It makes us understand more about both of the countries. These are countries with strong senses of who they are; they both feel they’re a model for the world in some ways; they both had lots of reason to be suspicious of each other. I think understanding why there was a long standoff and then why they became friends helps explain something about the relationship. And unless you know that, you won’t understand why the Chinese are so attached to Taiwan, you won’t understand why they’re so sensitive about the power of the United States and you won’t understand, perhaps, why the United States has such mixed feelings towards China. They sort of fear it but they are also drawn by it and interested in it. So, the history helps us to understand. I mean, it’s just like understanding an individual. If you know what’s happened to them in the past you have some sense why they behave as they do.

To explore these ideas, Singh and a collective of concerned students held lectures, films, forums and concerts the week of November 5. Events took place on all three campuses, and ranged from a War Child benefit concert, to a yoga and meditation workshop, to a photo exhibition by Global Aware. Two of this year’s speakers were physicist, humanitarian and U of T professor emeritus Ursula Franklin and Christian Peacemaker and former Iraq hostage James Loney. Both asked audiences to put their minds and imaginations to some big questions: What if we decided that war was not an ethical option? What if our concept of security were to be totally reimagined? How different a world could we create?

Peace Week began as Peace Day in 2002. Singh recalls: “I saw the ridiculous buildup to war in Iraq and I thought, ‘What can we do?’” The collective soon realized a day was not enough and, in 2003, launched Peace Week. This year’s attendance numbers were the highest yet, with nearly 400 people attending the opening multifaith prayer evening.

Enter Bike Bait: a pilot program launched on St. George Campus in September. Bike theft is one of the most reported crimes on campus, according to U of T police, occurring at the rate of two or three per week. Since introducing the program, police have seen a decrease in this rate and have laid several charges, including four in a single day.

Bike Bait works just like you might guess: an undisclosed number of bicycles (the bait) are planted around campus with a “very, very well-hidden” GPS (or global positioning system) beacon, says program co-ordinator Cpl. Peter Franchi.This beacon allows police to track the bike – and reel in the crook. U of T is the second Canadian university to implement the program, which is modelled after a Victoria Police Department initiative that reduced thefts by almost 20 per cent in six months. U of T’s other campuses and the City of Toronto are both watching the program closely. “Depending on our success,” says Cpl. Franchi,“others may adopt the program.”

U of T police are also launching a “Stop Theft” program for bikes – much like the theft-deterrent registry system for laptops and other electronic devices – which uses metal plates and permanent tattoos to diminish black-market value. University staff, students, faculty and alumni will be able to register their items for $20 each. Ride on!