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August 29, 2008
Topics university, toronto, gay, canada, schools, colleges, jobs, focus, theater, peace, chicago, college, china, chinese, student, world, city and school
The University of Toronto will begin offering starting fall master's and doctorate programs covering a wide range of sex-related topics from literary to public health. The university will be the first in Canada to offer graduate courses on the subject. Other Canadian educational institutions like Queen's University, McGill University, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, York University and University of British Columbia already offer undergraduate degree in sexuality studies, but most of their programs focus on issues of sexual orientation.
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August 11, 2008
Chinese authorities deported on Sunday and Monday six Canadian activists and even used the credit card of one of the deportees to buy his plane ticket. Steve Andersen, 28, and a member of Students for a Free Tibet, arrived in Edmonton Monday evening. Undercover agents arrested, questioned, and deported him and a German-Tibetan woman on Sunday for unfurling a Tibetan flag near Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
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August 6, 2008
"Please kill me. " These were the only words muttered in court Tuesday by the man who stabbed to death a bus passenger in Manitoba before beheading the victim and eating his flesh. Vince Weiguang Li uttered the words after shaking his head in response to a judge's question if he wanted an attorney. The judge ordered another hearing on Friday.
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July 31, 2008
Aug. 8, 2008, will not only mark the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics here but also the wedding day of about 9,000 Chinese couples. The number is a new record because it is twice more than the previous single-day marriage record in Beijing, according to China's state-run news agency Xinhua.
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July 28, 2008
Topics panda, world, habitat, southwest, forest, bears, twins, wild, pregnant, mountain, window, china, news, man, birth and chinese
Four pandas, including a set of twins, were born in captivity within 14 hours of each other in China. The births, Saturday and into Sunday, were all at the Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Centre in south-west Sichuan province, the largest facility for captive Panda's in the world with 71 panda's, according to China's official news station, Xinhua.
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