Category: York in the Media

“If there is one single priority for the budget, it should be to look beyond the immediate fiscal issues and set a clear direction to a new economy based upon high productivity and environmental sustainability,” said York University’s Packer professor of social justice Andrew Jackson in The Globe and Mail.

“The point in identifying the savings potential from reducing oil imports is to calm the helplessness we often feel about our ability to finance much-needed transit improvements,” wrote Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Albert Koehl in the Hamilton Spectator.

“The planetary boundaries concept refers to nine limits to human impact on the life of the planet,” co-wrote York Professor Alison Kemper in the Guardian. “When transgressed, these limits will trigger a cascade of ill effects, putting human life and civilization in peril and irreversibly altering the viability of habitats for virtually every species on Earth.”

Canadian Forces veteran Robert MacKay, who is now pursuing a nursing degree at York University, is teaming up with classmates to collect food and clothing from fellow students in support of Peel Region’s less fortunate, reported the Brampton Guardian.

“If I were to suggest a plan for organizations, I’d recommend they restrict how and where data is stored,” said Steve Pottle, York’s director of risk management services, in the Financial Post.

“It’s a recognition not only of Latin America but of the need to address the major social problems that Latin America faces in a world that has grown increasingly unequal and unfair,” said Argentina-born Viviana Patroni, coordinator of York’s International Development Studies program, in CBC News.

Minoo Bhutani, director of the Career Development Centre at York’s Schulich School of Business, says he helps his MBA students learn to network. The school plays host to Friday morning breakfasts where alumni and experts share stories and offer advice, reported The Globe and Mail.

A stream of research coming from the psychology departments in York University and the University of Toronto is evidencing that fiction-reading leads to one being more empathizing and socially intelligent, reported the Express Tribune.

Stephen Gaetz, professor and associate dean in York’s Faculty of Education, spoke about his report on homelessness during a recent stop in Uxbridge hosted by North House Transitional Housing, reported the Uxbridge Times Journal.

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York Professor Michael Rotondi’s study found that people over age 65 who were physically active were about 38 per cent less likely to develop the degenerative brain disease than those who were physically inactive, reported CBC News and others.