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“Hookah use has been bucking the trend of decreasing tobacco use among Canadian youth, and misperceptions of harms caused by hookah smoking persist,” said Minaker. “Toronto now joins 35 other Canadian municipalities that have shown a commitment to improving public health by restricting hookah use in public establishments. All the health evidence supports this being a clear decision for Ottawa and municipalities across the province.”

Last Wednesday, Toronto councillors voted 43-3 in favour of the ban, which will take effect April 1, 2016.

The University of Waterloo will break ground on Engineering 7 this week, an $88-million building that will feature facilities designed to expand student-driven innovation and advanced research labs to develop emerging technologies that will boost the nation’s global competitiveness.

Architectural illustration of Engineering 7. (Perkins+Will)

The printer, created by Alroy Almeida, Katarina Ilic, James Pickard, and Jesús Zozaya as their 2013 Engineering Capstone Design project, enables circuit boards to be prototyped within minutes, eliminating the frustrations with traditional fabrication processes and drastically reducing hardware development time.

The Voltera V-One

Professor John Turri and postdoctoral researcher Wesley Buckwalter of the Department of Philosophy at Waterloo investigated the link between being morally obligated to do something and having the ability to do it. Traditional philosophical wisdom says that “ought implies can.” However, their recent study found that people routinely attribute moral obligations to people who cannot fulfill them.

Visitors can take a guided tour of campus with a current student and explore the campus, check out residences, and tour the buildings and lecture halls. Each of Waterloo’s six Faculties will host information sessions to provide program and admissions details. Faculty events include tours, sample lectures, workshops, and student panels.

Construction of the Faculty of Engineering's new Engineering 7 (E7) building began at a ground-breaking event that included robots, autonomous vehicles and good old-fashioned shovels.

About a year ago, several news outlets published stories with playful headlines that included “Static electricity helps geckos get a grip,” and “Shocking! Geckos use static electricity to stick to walls.” The discovery by researchers at the University of Waterloo behind all those stories, however, has much bigger implications that could include breakthroughs in everything from art restoration to car tires to medical applications such as promoting wound healing.

Coming from a family of engineers, Pascale Walters knew that Waterloo was her first choice for engineering, but picking a discipline wasn’t easy. She liked physics, kinesiology, mechatronics engineering and systems design engineering. Walters wasn’t sure how she would decide — until she came across Waterloo’s new biomedical engineering undergraduate program.

University of Waterloo President Feridun Hamdullahpur and His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, meet with student members of the Varden Labs Autonomous Vehicles team on Friday, Oct. 30, following the opening of the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging at Waterloo.

The Centre of Excellence for Innovation in Aging is on the north campus of the University of Waterloo and is home to the Village at University Gates, a 192-bed long-term care home operated by Schlegel Villages, and a new 30,000-square-foot research facility for the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging (RIA).