April 22, 2020
Harris Ali, a sociology professor at York University, was quoted in the Winnipeg Free Press April 15. Read full story. Canada must defend its civil servants abroad; Lloyd Axworthy, Jean Charest, Obiora Okafor and Irvin Studin take issue with threats on Canadian, family York University Professor Obiora Okafor co-authored an article in the Ottawa Citizen […]
April 19, 2020
President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton and Provost and Vice-President Academic Lisa Philipps offer an important update to the University community on plans for the Fall semester and academic planning activities.
April 19, 2020
York University Assistant Professor Ingrid Veninger has founded an international film collaboration project while in isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During the month of April, 10 female filmmakers living around the world will each make a 10-minute film. The goal is to make one film, greater than the sum of its parts.
April 17, 2020
Why is there an abundance of matter compared to antimatter in the Universe? This question has stymied physicists for years, but researchers at York University, along with other Canadian institutions as part of the international Tokai-to-Kamioka (T2K) Collaboration, have found neutrinos may hold the answer.
April 17, 2020
Consistent with its name, the new series ProFile will feature faculty and staff at York University. Included in this short Q-and-A style profile are details about working life at York, followed by a few fun and quirky questions.
April 15, 2020
Will China’s global infrastructural initiative survive in a post COVID-19 world? The book, “One Road, Many Dreams” (Bloomsbury Press, 2019), written by three political economists affiliated with York University, hints that it just might.
April 15, 2020
York PhD student Dina Taha’s work has taken her from Egypt to Canada and back again on a journey of research and discovery about the lives and survival strategies of Syrian refugee women.
April 12, 2020
The Closing the Enforcement Gap research team has published a new book titled “Closing the Enforcement Gap: Improving Protections for Workers in Precarious Jobs.” The book is particularly relevant given the upheaval caused by COVID-19, which has brought into stark relief the precarious nature of work in the 21st century.
April 12, 2020
Former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Peter deCarteret Cory, C.C., who served as the 11th chancellor of York University, died on April 7 in Mississauga, Ont. Mr. Cory was chancellor of York University from 2004 to 2008 and was subsequently appointed an honorary member of the University’s Board of Governors.
April 12, 2020
Following the publication of the “Socialist Register’s” 56th volume at the end of 2019, co-editors Leo Panitch and Greg Albo of York University reflect on their editorships of the journal and discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting the contradictions in neoliberal capitalism.
