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Canada will have a $1.6-trillion debt by the end of the year due to the pandemic. Here’s why some economists say we shouldn’t sweat it. Click here for more York U in the news

YFile > York in the Media

Schulich School of Business Professors Burkard Eberlein and Mark Kamstra were quoted in the Toronto Star March 6. Read full story. Stop telling girls to smile — it pressures them to accept the unjust status quo Natalie Coulter, associate professor and director of the Institute for Research on Digital Literacies at York University, published an […]

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Pandemic job losses threaten to leave women behind permanently, RBC warns. Click here for more York U in the news

YFile > York in the Media

Winny Shen, associate professor at the Schulich School of Business, was quoted in CBC News March 4. Read full story. Is Artificial Intelligence the Future of Mental Health? York University Professor Robert Muller contributed to Psychology Today March 4. Read full story. Toronto van attack: Guilty verdict, but Canada still needs to tackle ideological violence […]

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Putting things right: Indigenous wisdom applied to sustainable water governance

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An Anishinaabek researcher consults with Elders and women from the Great Lakes territory, sums up the work of “a wave of Indigenous scholars” and weaves together decolonializing with Indigenous methodologies. With this, she offers some brilliant revelations that will inform future governance around the sustainability of water.

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Novel research connects how different parts of the brain work together in eye-hand coordination

YFile > Brainstorm

Distinguished Research Professor Doug Crawford sits down with ‘Brainstorm’ to discuss the network of activity he and his PhD student discovered when researching how the brain perceives moving objects, how it achieves orientation and signals to the body to reach out and grab these objects. Understanding this network represents a major scientific advance.

To truly understand how the brain is working, Crawford says we have to know how the different areas of the brain, and different neurons in those areas, are connecting to each other

Scholars’ Hub talk offers guidance on building resiliency skills

YFile > Latest News

Psychologist and Director of the York University Psychology Clinic Dr. Louise Hartley will lead the discussion, “Building Resiliency Skills,” taking place on March 10 at 12 p.m. via Zoom. The session will also touch on the impact of stress on women, in keeping with the theme of International Women’s Day.

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