TORONTO, February 20, 2006 -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced today that Peter W. Hogg, Professor Emeritus and former Dean of Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, will deliver the opening and closing remarks for the country's first-ever televised public hearing for the review of the new nominee for the Supreme Court of Canada. […]

TORONTO, February 17, 2006 -- A nurse is caring for a patient admitted to hospital with chest pain. He says he feels sore, weak, and short of breath. While he is waiting for cardiac tests, she assesses his condition. Suddenly, his heart stops. She starts CPR and calls for help.   It sounds like a television episode […]

TORONTO, February 16, 2006 -- The new issue of York-based TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, presents the latest research in contemporary cultural studies from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. This issue features studies of Canadian news media during the war in Afghanistan, representations of "whiteness" in Malibu’s Most Wanted (2003), Undercover Brother (2002), and The […]

TORONTO, February 15, 2006 -- A new Ontario Research Chair in Economics and Cross Cultural Studies, located within York University’s Schulich School of Business, will lead an interdisciplinary research program focused on delivering cutting-edge strategies to increase the competitiveness, innovation and productivity of Ontario’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The Council of Ontario Universities announced the […]

TORONTO, February 15, 2006 -- If young people feel like they belong somewhere, they are less likely to become involved with guns and gangs.   That’s the message that football player Eric England of the Toronto Argonauts will be delivering to 250 people – high school students, teachers, business and community leaders -- at York […]

York U Prof weighs in on romance and popular culture  TORONTO, February 10, 2006 -- Romeo and Juliet, Cleopatra and Marc Antony and…Homer and Marge Simpson? York University Department of Film Professor Seth Feldman says the Simpsons are, in his opinion, today’s most romantic couple. “They still endure after all their problems and misfortunes,” Feldman notes. […]

TORONTO, February 10, 2006 -- York University has received a groundbreaking research award to develop Canada’s first institutional strategy designed to connect university research in the social sciences and humanities with policy-makers across Canada to ensure that this research helps inform their decision-making. York together with its partner, the University of Victoria, has been awarded […]