TORONTO, February 18, 2002 -- York University professor Daniel Drache will tell a parliamentary committee on trade and investment this week that Canada has been unable to defend its interests at the World Trade Organization (WTO), and Ottawa should rethink its trade dispute strategy. Drache will appear on Wednesday, Feb. 20 before the committee on trade, […]
Artist Jane Ash Poitras explores issues of acculturation in Inuit and First Nations Cultures: Contemporary Perspectives
TORONTO, February 15, 2002 -- Acclaimed artist and educator Jane Ash Poitras will be the featured speaker in York University’s visual arts lecture series, Inuit and First Nations Cultures: Contemporary Perspectives, on February 21. Central to Poitras’ work is the exploration of issues of acculturation, the impact of colonialism past and present, and the political and […]
York U. scientist links midbrain to ability to hold head upright Discovery provides insights into torticollis syndrome, treatment
TORONTO, February 14, 2002 -- Douglas Crawford, Canada Research Chair in Neuroscience at York University, and his team of researchers have discovered that the midbrain site known as the interstitial nucleus of Cajal (INC) is responsible for controlling the neck muscles that maintain head posture. Moreover, Crawford and his team determined that an imbalance between the […]
Glendon Theatre hosts Canadian premiere of Swiss play Aimée & Jaguar
TORONTO, February 12, 2002 -- Glendon Theatre at York University presents the Canadian premiere of the Swiss play Aimée and Jaguar on Mar.11-12, based on the true story of the tragic love between Elisabeth Wust, a Nazi officer’s wife in 1940s Berlin, and Felice Schragenheim, a Jewish lesbian who was sent to her death at Bergen-Belsen. […]
Federal support for census research will give scholars a window on the hidden histories of ordinary Canadians
TORONTO, February 8, 2002 -- A national project to build census-based profiles revealing the untold history of ordinary Canadians has won $5.2 million in start-up funding from the federal government’s Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). It is one of the largest social science projects ever funded by CFI. York University will be the site of a […]
Wine connoisseurs raise funds for York U. rainforest conservation program
TORONTO, February 5, 2002 -- Wine connoisseurs gathering tomorrow at the Vaughan Estate on the grounds of Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Sciences Centre will be bidding on a stunning array of fine European and American wines being sold at auction to raise funds for research and conservation projects at York University’s Las Nubes Rainforest in […]
York U. conference examines poverty, insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean
TORONTO, February 4, 2002 -- The question of whether Canada can have an independent foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere given increased economic and military integration with the United States post September 11 will be discussed at York University during a conference on "Latin America and the Caribbean after September 11: Poverty, Crisis, and Insecurity", to […]
