TORONTO, January 4, 2001 -- In a CUPE 3903 Web posting today a recommendation was made that Unit 2 (Contract Teachers) reject the university’s latest contract offer. It states: "If any unit votes yes and ratifies their agreement separately from the other two units, members of that unit will not be put back on the […]
Theatre @ York's season opener: "Bankrupt!"
TORONTO, October 23, 2000 -- Theatre @ York launches its 2000-2001 on November 7 with Bankrupt! written by 19th century Russian dramatist, Alexander Ostrovsky, and directed by Max Hancock. Bankrupt! is a darkly satirical tale about underhanded financial dealings, deceptions, phony transactions - issues that dominate the news today. But this play was written in […]
Can Stockwell Days Canadian Alliance usurp Jean Chretiens Liberals? Will Clark s PCs and McDonough's NDP fall victim to strategic voting? Ask a York University expert -- fall federal election 2000
TORONTO, October 21, 2000 -- Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien is poised to call an election tomorrow for Nov. 27, ending weeks of speculation by political pundits. The election call will follow a flurry of pre-election activity this week by the Chretien Liberals including: a cabinet shuffle which brought Newfoundland Premier Brain Tobin back into […]
York U.'s Triumph of Canadian Cinema series: TV Critic John Doyle; actor, director, writer Ken Finkleman; TV writer, producer Alyson Feltes argue TV is Canada's real cinema –Television: The Canadian Films We Get to See
TORONTO, October 17, 2000 -- Two of Canadian television's most creative artists -- Ken Finkleman (The Newsroom) and Alyson Feltes (Traders) -- and Canada's most-quoted television critic, the Globe's John Doyle will examine television's role in delivering Canadian films to Canadians. The public forum, Television: The Canadian Films We Get to See, will be held […]
York Centre for Refugee Studies Film Screening of Educators' Rwanda Visit Brings Plight of Orphans Home to Canadians
TORONTO, October 17, 2000 --The plight of almost half-a-million children orphaned by the 1994 genocide in Rwanda spurred a group of Canadian teachers and community workers to travel to the sites of the massacres this year and witness the tragic aftermath. The film documenting this journey, Rwanda: In Search of Hope, will be shown at […]
New Schools Offer Students Wide Range of Programs York University Melds Higher Education with Demands of Workplace at New Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies
TORONTO, October 16, 2000 -- York University is responding to the rising demand for a university education that also provides job skills and professional accreditation for the workplace with the newly reorganized Joseph E. Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies. The new Faculty will serve both part-time adult learners and full-time day students in […]
Activist Maude Barlow Discusses "Citizen Politics" at Osgoode Hall Law School Memorial Lecture
TORONTO, October 11, 2000 -- Barbara Betcherman was a shining star, an Ontario Scholar who put herself through Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, and later served on a Royal Commission investigating alleged police brutality. She went on to become director of legal research for CBC-TV's Ombudsman program and then a successful novelist. Sadly, […]
