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She’s calling for a fairer, more transparent system 3 Letters Preventing Labour Abuses 19 Leading Edge Barrier to Entry 5 President’s Message Leveraging our Location 45 Photo Contest Winners 6 Calendar UTSC’s 50th Birthday 49 All About Alumni Woman’s Time 9 Life on Campus Indigenous Health 56 Time Capsule Blue and White! 2 MAGAZINE.UTORONTO.CA Letters Until there is sufficient legislative support for both Ontario dedicates few resources to proactive investigation of any kind – administrators and enforcement officers, the hidden only reacting to complaints from those labour pool will experience continued abuse. willing to complain. Until there is sufficient legislative support for both H.G. GOODWIN administrators and enforcement officers CLaw 1986 WOODSWORTH, BA 1996 WOODSWORTH, PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO provincially in employment standards, the hidden labour pool will experience continued abuse. of the home and cultural environment A Legacy Worth Preserving H.G. GOODWIN Thank you for the wonderful tribute to on student learning and well-being. CLaw 1986 WOODSWORTH, BA 1996 WOODSWORTH Dr. Norman Bethune (“New Sculpture We don’t need more educational PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO Honours Norman Bethune’s Legacy,” theoreticians or policy wonks. We need High Hopes for UC Summer 2014). I wanted to let you know vibrant human beings who will engage As a UC undergrad some 20 years ago, that, for the last 13 years, the School of enthusiastically and sensitively with I thought then that the main University Health Sciences at Humber College in our children in the classroom and College building could be so much more Toronto has provided a modest annual introduce them to the complex chal- than it was (and it was already a great award in Dr. Bethune’s name to recog- lenges of the world with generosity, building). I’m very pleased to hear there nize a health sciences student who has empathy and encouragement. are concrete plans to have it be even contributed to humanitarian work and DAVID SCHATZKY more of a home to UC students and staff demonstrated a commitment to publicly BEd 1973 OISE, TORONTO (“Restoring UC’s Glory,” Summer 2014).