TORONTO, Jan. 22, 2014 – York University is pleased to announce a new partnership with The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences that will see York host the 2014 Canada Prizes gala awards ceremony at the university’s Glendon College campus on May 7, 2014. Celebrating the best Canadian scholarly books—not simply within a single academic […]
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York U expert available to speak about extreme cold weather alerts and homelessness
TORONTO, Jan. 20, 2014 – York University researcher Tanya Gulliver, project coordinator of the Canadian Homelessness Research Network, is available to speak with media about Toronto’s extreme cold weather alert and how it affects the homeless and vulnerable in our community. York University is helping to shape the global thinkers and thinking that will define […]
Leading China Commentator to speak on “Authoritarian Capitalism” at Davies Lecture
China’s outdated business model incompatible with global trading system, author warns TORONTO, January 15, 2014 – American businessman, journalist and author James McGregor will deliver the sixth Davies Business Law Lecture on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at 12.30 p.m. in the Robert R. McEwen Auditorium, Schulich School of Business, York University. The lecture is […]
Statement from York University President Mamdouh Shoukri on Religious Accommodation
Many of you have no doubt seen recent media reports regarding the request of a York University student for religious accommodation in an online course. This issue is obviously of interest to the broader York community and, therefore, I feel it is important to make the University’s position very clear. York is a secular university. […]
STATEMENT FROM RHONDA LENTON, PROVOST AND VICE-PRESIDENT ACADEMIC, YORK UNIVERSITY
January 9, 2014 York is committed to creating an inclusive learning environment for all students, faculty and staff. Each request for accommodation is carefully reviewed based on its own merits in the best interests of all. The Taylor-Bouchard Commission of 2007-8 recommended accommodation as a guiding principle, while recognizing that the duty to accommodate is […]
Theatre@York presents The Beggar's Opera
Why are the Laws levelled at us? Are we more dishonest than the rest? - The Beggar’s Opera Theatre @ York embraces the question with edgy production of The Beggar's Opera TORONTO, January 9, 2014 — At its London premiere in 1728, John Gay's rollicking Beggar's Opera caused a sensation. Lampooning the politics and […]
Medical journals could increase transparency by removing ads, study shows
TORONTO, January 8, 2014 – Pharmaceutical ads could easily be removed from general medical journals by increasing subscription rates, according to an international study published today in PLOS ONE. York University health policy professor Joel Lexchin, one of the co-authors of the study and a Toronto emergency physician, says he would willingly pay a […]
