Mohan Matthen (philosophy of mind, philosophy of biology, ancient philosophy) at the University of British Columbia has accepted the senior offer from the University of Toronto, to start in the summer of 2006 (the latest of many Toronto offers to be accepted this year). 

This concludes a tough year for UBC, which lost their two (arguably) best-known senior faculty this year:  Matthen and Catherine Wilson (early modern philosophy), who went to the City University of New York Graduate Center.  On the other hand, the UBC Department, which Matthen played an important role in building up, still includes a number of well-known philosophers, including John Beatty (history and philosophy of biology), Dominic Lopes (aesthetics), Alan Richardson (history of analytic philosophy), Paul Russell (early modern philosophy), and Margaret Schabas (philosophy of economics), among others.  So despite these losses, I expect UBC to remain solidly among the top five Canadian graduate programs.