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Eleven universities, including U of T and McMaster from Ontario, announced in a letter on Monday that they will not participate in this year's Maclean's university rankings. They won't provide the data that Maclean's requests.

11 universities bail out of Maclean's survey
14 Aug 2006

In a letter to Tony Keller, the magazine's managing editor of special projects, the universities said they have expressed their "considerable reservations" to Maclean's for some years, but to little avail.

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The letter was signed by the presidents of:

* University of Toronto.
* McMaster University.
* University of Ottawa.
* University of British Columbia.
* Simon Fraser University.
* University of Alberta.
* University of Calgary.
* University of Lethbridge.
* University of Manitoba.
* Université de Montréal.
* Dalhousie University in Halifax.