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The article focuses on the preparation being made by television channel TV Ontario for the announcement of the winner in Best Lecturer Competition, a contest to select a professor who offers his or her students the most engaging lecture in the province of Ontario. Some of the top ten finalists are Jacalyn Duffin of Queen's University and Michael Persinger of Laurentian University. The winner will be revealed on February 17, 2007.

The article reports on the ruling by the Canadian Supreme Court in a case about the arbitrary suspension of student Daniel Freeman-Maloy by president Lorna Marsden of York University in Toronto, Ontario. Freeman-Maloy was suspended because he participated in unauthorized protests launched by the Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights. The Canadian Association of University Teachers applauds the ruling claiming that school authorities should not be immune from being held publicly accountable.

This article reports on the allegations being made by the faculty association of the University of Windsor in Ontario against the university of taking advantage of the last few legal months of mandatory retirement to reduce cost on salaries. Ontario has introduced an age discrimination law that will make it illegal to force university staff to retire at 65. The association charges that the university has gone on a hiring spree, recruiting 422 tenure-track professors over the past eight years.

Reports on the evaluation of prospective medical students at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Opinion of college applicants to the multiple mini medical interview; Methodology in assessing candidates on the basis of personal qualities.

Focuses on the increase in proportion of student recruits from modest-income homes through a 25-fold increase in aid package of Toronto University. Percentage of increase in undergraduate students; Value of the financial aid for the university; Rate of share in tuition-fee increases for redistribution in student aid.

Discusses the controversy surrounding the alleged breach of security in the university-based research reactor of McMaster University in Ontario in 2003. Background on a "Washington Times" report claiming that an al-Qaida cell seeking materials for a dirty bomb was linked to the university's nuclear research program; Investigation conducted by the university following the release of the newspaper report.

Reports that the Northern Ontario Medical School is planning to change its curriculum. Consultation with aboriginal populations and educators.

Reports that students have accused the University of Waterloo of being heavy-handed after it closed two campus bars in Waterloo, Ontario. Details of the brutal car-park fight; Convention of the Federation of Students to meet with the administrators; Decision of the administrator to shut down the establishment for public safety.

Reports on the partnership between the Royal Bank of Canada and Queen University on student-loan business. Social status of students targeted by the partnership; Default rate for the universities and private schools; Principle advocated by the partnership.

Reports that the University of Toronto has settled a lawsuit with a British drugs researcher who alleged that an employment offer was revoked because he asserted a link between antidepressants and suicide in Ontario. Amount of damages; Psychiatrist David Healy's acceptance of assurances that pharmaceutical companies played no role in the rescinding of his appointments.

Reports on the legal case between psychiatrist David Healy against the University of Toronto for alleged libel in Toronto, Ontario. Confidentiality of settlements; Linkage between antidepressants and suicides; Mediation in the settlement.

Reports on the support found by a University of Toronto academic who publicly shared her research findings despite a confidentiality clause with the pharmaceuticals company that sponsored the project in a report. Refutation of the findings of Nancy Olivieri by Apotex; Context of the report; Recommendation of supporting researchers threatened by a sponsor.

Reports the lawsuit filed by David Healy, a University of Wales professor against University of Toronto and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, Ontario. Basis for the filing of the case; Reason for dismissal of Healy from CAMH; Amount of damage suit claimed by Healy.

Reports that the University of Toronto has become the first university in Canada to offer a guaranteed level of financial support for graduate students pursuing doctoral degrees. Increase in the average tuition fees for graduate students; Effects of the deregulation of graduate and professional program fees.

Reports on Canada's decision to establish a medical school in Northern Ontario in an effort to supply one of its most remote areas with enough doctors. Focus on rural and remote medicine; Number of students to be trained each year; Number of physicans in regions served by a medical school.

Reports on the University of Toronto's retraction of a job offer to British researcher David Healy, who publicly suggested that Prozac could lead to suicide. Controversy over Healy's speech at a mental illness colloquium in Toronto in November 2000; Debate over commercial pressure in Toronto.

Reports on the results of a cross-cultural clinical ethics survey conducted by the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario.

Reports on the lingering effects of the 78-day teachers' strike at York University in Toronto, Ontario. Number of instructors and teaching assistants who participated in the strike; Class-action suit filed by students; Key issue in the strike.

Reports on the lesson in staff politics learned by the Ottawa-based Carleton University's School of Journalism and Communication after the `Calgary Herald' arrived to recruit summer interns. Reason for banning the `Herald' from conducting interviews on campus; Warning of Carleton President Richard Van Loon about the ban; Compromise reached between the president, the department and journalism students.

Reports that three Ontario students have returned cheques from the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation, citing corrupt practices of their provincial government in managing funds intended to ease their debt. Number of students to whom the foundation mailed its first set of cheques; Comment from Joel Harden, chair of the Canadian Federation of Students in Ontario; Reaction from Ontario's ministry of training, colleges and universities.

Reports that Ontario Conservatives have been cutting a tier of government and amalgamating municipal services by bunching cities and their suburbs into what have been dubbed megacities. Why Ontario francophones are in a more tenuous position; What a post-welfare state means for a bilingual Canada; Why moves such as amalgamation endanger bilingualism.

Highlights the strikes of teaching assistants the University of Toronto in Ontario due to tuition costs. Tuition fee for Canadian graduate students; Actions taken by administrators of the University of Toronto.

Reports on the imprisonment of four dissidents who questioned Cuba's economic and political policies. Reaction from the International Development Research Centre based in Otawa, Ontario; Implications to Cuba's economy.

Deals with the Educational Trading Center, a simulated high-tech trading floor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Comments from John Siam, director of the facility at McMaster; Aim of the university; Donations given by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

Focuses on a higher education class at Toronto University in Ontario which uses meditation. Benefits from spiritual healing; Reactions of students; Creation of a meditation center by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Reports on the decision of the government of Ontario to set up a half-billion dollar endowment to offset college tuition fee increases.

Reports on the continuation of a faculty strike at York University in Toronto, Ontario. Administration's rejection of binding arbitration; Concerns on the deterioration of the teaching conditions at the university.

Discusses the allegations of plagiarism made against Jimming Lin, a professor at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, by Paul Boudreau, his former student. Use of paper at academic conference and course casebook; Student's claim of damages for reputation and infringement of copyright; Excuses and apology given by Lin.

Reports that Ontario College of Art will not suspend or expel its student Jubal Brown for deliberately vomiting on Raoul Dufy's work at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Reports on part-time professor Gerald Hannon's settlement of a case with Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, Ontario where he previously taught in connection with his work as a prostitute. Preference for teaching over cash settlement from the university; Suspension of Hannon after admitting that he moonlighted as a prostitute; Students' support for Hannon's cause.

Reports that Doris Sommer-Rotenberg helped make possible an endowed chair in suicide studies at the Ontario-based University of Toronto. Fulfillment of the promise of the life of her son Arthur Sommer Rotenberg; Effort to diminish some of the stigma associated with suicide.

Reports that York University in Canada has awarded a full-time position to Diana Cooper-Clark, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education's 1995 professor of the year. York administration's placement on blame on the university's austerity measure for not hiring her sooner; Bad working conditions for part-time teachers in Canada.

Reports that nearly one eight of the workforce of the University of Waterloo in Ontario, accepted early retirement to help offset provincial funding cuts. Comparison with laying off staff or continuing a three-year salary freeze; Financial problems of the university.

Reports that the York University in Toronto, Ontario has received from Canadian entrepreneur Seymour Schulich the largest-ever private donation to a university in Canadian history. Amount donated by Schulich; Cuts in government funding for higher education; Background information on York University; Private fundraising as a growing activity among Canadian universities.

Reports that part-time professor Gerald Hannon will be back in class at the Toronto, Ontario-based Ryerson Polytechnic University after being suspended for his conduct. Espousing of views on pedophilia in the classroom; Interview to the daily `Toronto Sun.'

Focuses on the efforts of the University of Toronto in Ontario to raise funds for academic refugees. What the fund will provide for the refugees; Amount of money the university is trying to raise; Comments from Michael Marrus, a historian who proposed the fund; Information on Canada's refugee laws.

States that Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, is helping the Ukraine to establish a national program in the study of democracy. When the program is expected to commence; Indepth information on the project; Reference to some of the changes made in Russia.

Focuses on a proposal made in Ontario to universities and colleges regarding the preparation of students for jobs. Factors which influenced the proposal; Comments from Jamie Mackay, director of provincial education ministry's university branch; Comparison of rates attained by graduates to that of the working class.

States that university presidents have been given authority by the education ministry in Ontario, Canada to increase tuition fees. Information on tuition costs at McMaster University, Hamilton; Details on the 1996 Smith report commissioned by the Ontario government; Comments from Mordechai Rozanski, president of Guelph University.

Reports on the end of the 55-day strike of faculties of the York University in Toronto, Ontario.