TTC’s Emergency Simulation at the York University Station on Oct. 25 will result in bus diversions
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The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) recently announced an opening date of Dec. 17 for the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension. As part of its extensive testing procedures, on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 25, the TTC will be conducting an emergency preparedness exercise on the Keele Campus at the new York University Station.
The York University Station on the Keele campus
This emergency simulation exercise will impact transportation on and off campus. Emergency vehicles will gather in the Harry W. Arthurs Common bus loop and Founders Road Parking lot.
Buses will be on diversion. TTC and GO Transit buses will let passengers off on York Blvd.
WheelTrans and VanGo buses will pickup and drop off passengers outside Vari Hall at their regular stops.
The York University Shuttlestop will be temporarily moved to the Fine Arts Road.
The area immediately around the York University Station will be closed for the duration of the exercise.
All classes, tests and exams will proceed as per normal, as will other regular campus programming.
Above: A map of the area affected by the TTC simulation
The exercise is an emergency preparedness collaborative effort led by the TTC, involving partner agencies in Toronto and York Region, and the York University community. It is a large-scale simulation exercise involving approximately 700 participants. The exercise is designed to allow the TTC to test its own emergency processes and procedures at track level and the collaboration, coordination and communication of the response among emergency responders so that Fire, EMS and Police are prepared to handle any situation on the new section of Line 1.
Since the new subway line runs under York University property, York’s Community Safety Department and other University departments are using this opportunity to test the University’s own emergency preparedness and response processes and are working closely with the TTC to test York’s operational and communications procedures.
The University is also using the emergency exercise as a unique experiential learning opportunity. Students from York’s Disaster and Emergency Management Program (Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies) will be involved in the simulation, along with Nursing and Kinesiology students (Faculty of Health) who will participate as passengers complete with make-up. Students from the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) will assist in videoing the event for future training and education purposes.
For more information or if you have questions regarding this initiative, contact Kathy Branton, manager, Emergency Preparedness Program, Community Safety Department, by email to brantonk@yorku.ca.
Update on the TTC’s Emergency Simulation at the York University Station on Oct. 25
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The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) recently announced an opening date of Dec. 17 for the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension. As part of its extensive testing procedures, on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 25, the TTC will be conducting an emergency preparedness exercise on the Keele Campus at the new York University Station.
The York University Station on the Keele campus
This emergency simulation exercise will impact transportation on and off campus.A PDF of the map pictured below is available here for download. The map shows the details of the areas where emergency vehicles will gather in the Harry W. Arthurs Common bus loop and Founders Road Parking lot.
Buses will be on diversion and TTC and GO Transit buses will let passengers off on York Blvd.
WheelTrans and VanGo buses will stop outside Vari Hall.
The York University Shuttlestop will be temporarily moved to the Fine Arts Road.
The area immediately around the York University Station will be closed for the duration of the exercise.
Above: A map of the areas impacted by the upcoming TTC emergency simulation exercise at the York University Station. The exercise will take place Oct. 25. Click here to yield a full-size PDF version.
All classes, tests and exams will proceed as per normal, as will other regular campus programming.
The exercise is an emergency preparedness collaborative effort led by the TTC, involving partner agencies in Toronto and York Region, and the York University community. It is a large-scale simulation exercise involving approximately 700 participants. The exercise is designed to allow the TTC to test its own emergency processes and procedures at track level and the collaboration, coordination and communication of the response among emergency responders so that Fire, EMS and Police are prepared to handle any situation on the new section of Line 1.
Since the new subway line runs under York University property, York’s Community Safety Department and other University departments are using this unique opportunity to test the University’s own emergency preparedness and response processes and are working closely with the TTC to test York’s operational and communications procedures.
The University is also using the emergency exercise as a unique experiential learning opportunity. Students from York’s Disaster and Emergency Management Program (Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies) will be involved in the simulation, along with Nursing and Kinesiology students (Faculty of Health) who will participate as passengers complete with make-up. Students from the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) will assist in videoing the event for future training and education purposes.
For more information or if you have questions regarding this initiative, contact Kathy Branton, manager, Emergency Preparedness Program, Community Safety Department, by email to brantonk@yorku.ca.
Four deserving grads named Bryden Award recipients
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From left: Colleen Johnston, Abdullah Merei, Rudy Buttignol, J. Mark Lievonen
Now in its 17th year, the Bryden Alumni Awards celebrate outstanding York University alumni who have achieved the extraordinary and made remarkable contributions in their fields, communities and to the University. The four leaders who will be honoured Nov. 23 at a celebration at the Royal Ontario Museum are:
Colleen Johnston (BBA ’82), group head, Direct Channels, Technology, Marketing and Corporate & Public Affairs, TD Bank Group;
Rudy Buttignol, C.M. (BFA ’82), president & CEO, Knowledge Network;
Abdullah Merei (BA Sc ’09, MBA ’15), director, Compression Systems, Evertz Microsystems Ltd.;
J. Mark Lievonen, C.M. (BBA ’79, MBA ’87, LLD [Hon.] ’15), former president, Sanofi Pasteur Limited.
“This year’s Bryden Alumni Award recipients illustrate the endless possibilities for achievement that are available with a York University degree,” said Jeff O’Hagan, vice-president Advancement. “Our 2017 honourees embody York’s innovative way of thinking and join a distinguished list of over 70 Bryden recipients before them who continue to inspire us with not only their remarkable achievements and thoughtful leadership, but also their dedication and passion to making a lasting impact. Their exemplary contributions to society – both locally and globally – continue to inspire everyone here at York.”
This year, there are four categories of Bryden Alumni Awards, each category honours a distinct set of achievements and contributions.
Outstanding Achievement: An alumnus or alumna who has achieved distinction in their field and whose integrity and ability inspire alumni, faculty, staff and students.
Colleen Johnston
Colleen Johnston
Johnston (BBA ’82) is currently the group head of Direct Channels, Technology, Marketing and Corporate & Public Affairs at TD Bank Group.
Johnston joined the TD Bank Group in March 2004 as Executive Vice President, Finance Operations, after spending 15 years with Scotiabank in various senior positions. She began her career in 1982 with Price Waterhouse.
She received her chartered accountant designation in 1984 and in 2006 was elected a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA). The recipient of numerous top industry honours as a senior finance executive, she was recognized by Women’s Executive Network as one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women three years in a row and inducted into Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Hall of Fame in 2007. She was named “Best Chief Financial Officer” in October 2009 by Canadian Business magazine, and in 2011, for the third year in a row, was named one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Banking by American Banker. In 2012, Johnston was recognized as Canada’s CFO of the Year, an award that is presented annually by Financial Executives International Canada, PwC and Robert Half International. In 2013, she received the Catalyst Canada Honour in the Business Leader Category.
She is a board member of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and sits on the advisory board of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at the Schulich School of Business at York University, a member of the Canadian Board Diversity Council, a member of the board of St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto and a board member of the Shaw Festival. At TD, she is actively promotes diversity in the workplace including the bank’s Women in Leadership Committee.
Tentanda Via: An alumnus or alumna who has demonstrated innovative, unconventional and daring leadership and success, reflecting the University’s motto – “The Way Must Be Tried”.
Rudy Buttignol, C.M.
Rudy Buttignol
Buttignol, C.M. (BFA ’82) is the president and CEO of British Columbia’s Knowledge Network Corporation, and president of the BBC Kids channel, a joint venture with BBC Worldwide. Since his appointment in 2007, Buttignol has led the transformation of the public broadcaster from a single television station to a mulit-channel digital media network.
Buttignol moderates annual documentary financing forums in Amsterdam and Leipzig; and is a tutor at the Berlin-based Documentary Campus Masterschool. He serves as a director on the boards of the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Britannia Mine Museum, and the Knowledge-West Communications Corporation; and is vice-chair of the Canadian Association of Public Educational Media. In 2011 he was appointed to the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board. He is a member of the Order of Canada and has received of nine Canadian Academy Awards.
From 2000 to 2006, Buttignol served as TVO’s creative head of Network Programming. Concurrently, he was the executive producer of Saturday Night at the Movies, the international documentary series Human Edge, and the HBO special Before Their Time. Buttignol also founded the award-winning documentary series The View From Here, an international award-winning documentary series than ran for 14 seasons.
His commissions include documentaries such as The Corporation; Manufactured Landscapes; Allan King’s Dying at Grace; The Bodybuilder and I; McLuhan’s Wake; Bret the Hitman Hart; The Champagne Safari; Emmy winner Let it Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles; and Oscar-nominated Hardwood. Commissioned series include Diamond Road; Black Coffee; Empire of the Word; Michael Ignatieff’s Blood and Belonging; Korea, the Unfinished War; The War of 1812; and Emmy and Grammy-winner Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach.
Buttignol’s community volunteer time has been focused on board governance.
One to Watch: An alumnus or alumna who has made a significant impact in their field and/or community within 15 years of a bachelor’s degree or 10 years of a professional/ graduate degree.
Abdullah Merei
Abdullah Merei
Currently the director in the R&D department at Evertz Microsystems, Merei (BA Sc ’09, MBA ’15) leads the design, development, marketing and full deployment products and solutions for major broadcasting/media networks around the world.
His passion for technology was cemented when he moved to Canada in 2004 to attend York University where he earned his degree in Computer Engineering in 2009. He graduated first in his class with distinction and then went on to earn an MBA from the Schulich School of Business in 2015. While at York University, Merei volunteered on numerous student groups and served as the president of the Engineering Society for the 2007-08 academic year. He received the Allen Berg Award in 2007 and 2008 and a gold medal from the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers. In 2015, Merei was the inaugural recipient of the Alumnus of the Year award from the Lassonde School of Engineering.
He created the Merei Family Scholarship, which makes an annual award to six students in engineering and computer science. Most recently, Merei provided seed funding to establish the Bergeron Entrepreneurs in Science & Technology (BEST) early stage venture program. He has also connected Evertz with the Lassonde Co-Op Program to give undergraduates the chance to gain experiential education experiences through work placements.
In his spare time, Merei is a mentor and role model to a number of Lassonde undergraduate students. He is also leading the startup of the Lassonde Alumni Network. Merei volunteers by mentoring startups in the technology industry.
Outstanding Contribution: An alumnus or alumna who has made a significant contribution to the advancement of York and its students through exceptional service, commitment and/or philanthropic contributions.
Mark Lievonen, C.M.
J. Mark Lievonen
Lievonen, C.M. (BBA ’79, MBA ’87, LLD [Hon.] ’15) is the former president of Sanofi Pasteur Limited, the Canadian vaccine division of Sanofi, which he joined in 1983. Under his leadership, Sanofi Pasteur became a billion-dollar enterprise in Canada, manufacturing more than 50 million doses of vaccines for both domestic and international markets.
Lievonen began his career in finance and rose through Sanofi Pasteur’s ranks, guiding the company through a number of significant milestones and initiatives. He spearheaded a cancer vaccine program in 1997 and supported the launch of a five-component pertussis vaccine.
Lievonen is a director of Oncolytics Biotech Inc., Quest PharmaTech Inc., the Gairdner Foundation, the Public Policy Forum and the York University Development Corporation. He is the past chair of Innovative Medicines Canada (formerly Rx&D), BIOTECanada, Ontario Genomics Institute and the Centre for the Advancement of Health Innovations. He was the vice-chair of Ontario Institute for Cancer Research and is a founding member and former vice-chair of YORKbiotec.
He is the former chair of the Markham Stouffville Hospital Foundation, an ex-officio member on the Markham Stouffville Hospital Board and has chaired the Healthcare Division of the United Way of Greater Toronto Cabinet. Lievonen is the founder of the Sanofi BioGenius Canada, a program that has given 5,500 students a chance to pursue projects in the field of biotechnology.
Lievonen holds a BBA and an MBA from the Schulich School of Business. In 2015, he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from York University. Lievonen is a chartered accountant was elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario in 2007.
Take note: TTC will conduct an emergency preparedness exercise at York University Station
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The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) recently announced an opening date of Dec. 17 for the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension. As part of its extensive testing procedures, on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 25, the TTC will be conducting an emergency preparedness exercise on the Keele Campus at the new York University Station. This exercise will impact transportation on and off campus (details to come). All classes, tests and exams will proceed as per normal, as will other regular campus programming.
The York University Station on the Keele campus
The exercise is an emergency preparedness collaborative effort led by the TTC, involving partner agencies in Toronto and York Region, and the York University community. It is a large-scale simulation exercise involving approximately 700 participants. The exercise is designed to allow the TTC to test its own emergency processes and procedures at track level and the collaboration, coordination and communication of the response among emergency responders so that Fire, EMS and Police are prepared to handle any situation on the new section of Line 1.
Since the new subway line runs under York University property, York’s Community Safety Department and other University departments are using this unique opportunity to test the University’s own emergency preparedness and response processes and are working closely with the TTC to test York’s operational and communications procedures.
The University is also using the emergency exercise as a unique experiential learning opportunity. Students from York’s Disaster and Emergency Management Program (Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies) will be involved in the simulation, along with Nursing and Kinesiology students (Faculty of Health) who will participate as passengers complete with make-up. Students from the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) will assist in videoing the event for future training and education purposes.
Leading up to the emergency preparedness exercise detailed transportation changes and weekly reminders will be published in YFile, posted on the campus LCD Screen Network, circulated via email and posted to social media.
For more information or if you have questions regarding this initiative, contact Kathy Branton, manager, Emergency Preparedness Program, Community Safety Department, by email to brantonk@yorku.ca.
Important reminder: TTC will conduct an emergency preparedness exercise at York University Station
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The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) recently announced an opening date of Dec. 17 for the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension. As part of its extensive testing procedures, on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 25, the TTC will be conducting an emergency preparedness exercise on the Keele Campus at the new York University Station. This exercise will impact transportation on and off campus (details to come). All classes, tests and exams will proceed as per normal, as will other regular campus programming.
The York University Station on the Keele campus
The exercise is an emergency preparedness collaborative effort led by the TTC, involving partner agencies in Toronto and York Region, and the York University community. It is a large-scale simulation exercise involving approximately 700 participants. The exercise is designed to allow the TTC to test its own emergency processes and procedures at track level and the collaboration, coordination and communication of the response among emergency responders so that Fire, EMS and Police are prepared to handle any situation on the new section of Line 1.
Since the new subway line runs under York University property, York’s Community Safety Department and other University departments are using this unique opportunity to test the University’s own emergency preparedness and response processes and are working closely with the TTC to test York’s operational and communications procedures.
The University is also using the emergency exercise as a unique experiential learning opportunity. Students from York’s Disaster and Emergency Management Program (Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies) will be involved in the simulation, along with Nursing and Kinesiology students (Faculty of Health) who will participate as passengers complete with make-up. Students from the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) will assist in videoing the event for future training and education purposes.
Leading up to the emergency preparedness exercise detailed transportation changes and weekly reminders will be published in YFile, posted on the campus LCD Screen Network, circulated via email and posted to social media.
For more information or if you have questions regarding this initiative, contact Kathy Branton, manager, Emergency Preparedness Program, Community Safety Department, by email to brantonk@yorku.ca.
TTC to conduct emergency preparedness exercise at York University Station
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The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) recently announced an opening date of Dec. 17 for the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension. As part of its extensive testing procedures, on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 25, the TTC will be conducting an emergency preparedness exercise on the Keele Campus at the new York University Station. This exercise will impact transportation on and off campus (details to come). All classes, tests and exams will proceed as per normal, as will other regular campus programming.
The York University Station on the Keele campus
The exercise is an emergency preparedness collaborative effort led by the TTC, involving partner agencies in Toronto and York Region, and the York University community. It is a large-scale simulation exercise involving approximately 700 participants. The exercise is designed to allow the TTC to test its own emergency processes and procedures at track level and the collaboration, coordination and communication of the response among emergency responders so that Fire, EMS and Police are prepared to handle any situation on the new section of Line 1.
Since the new subway line runs under York University property, York’s Community Safety Department and other University departments are using this unique opportunity to test the University’s own emergency preparedness and response processes and are working closely with the TTC to test York’s operational and communications procedures.
The University is also using the emergency exercise as a unique experiential learning opportunity. Students from York’s Disaster and Emergency Management Program (Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies) will be involved in the simulation, along with Nursing and Kinesiology students (Faculty of Health) who will participate as passengers complete with make-up. Students from the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) will assist in videoing the event for future training and education purposes.
Leading up to the emergency preparedness exercise detailed transportation changes and weekly reminders will be published in YFile, posted on the campus LCD Screen Network, circulated via email and posted to social media.
For more information or if you have questions regarding this initiative, contact Kathy Branton, manager, Emergency Preparedness Program, Community Safety Department, by email to brantonk@yorku.ca.
AMPD artists at Toronto’s Nuit Blanche
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From dusk till dawn on Saturday, Sept. 30, downtown Toronto will be transformed with over 110 contemporary art projects by hundreds of artists from around the world. It is all part of Nuit Blanche.
With so much to see and do, here is a short list of School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) projects that will be sure to capture the imagination.
Dance student Sophie Dow is one of many voices in Will Kwan’s The Forest, a performance that plays with the force and fragility of the human voice and the capacity for words to establish bonds between people across time and space at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) at 317 Dundas Street West in Toronto.
Will Kwan’s concept drawing for The Forest
Inspired by the low-tech ingenuity of the “human microphone,” which is a technique used to amplify speech in public gatherings that has been popularized by activists to circumvent restrictions on the use of amplified public address devices, performers carry the messages of a speaker, voice to voice, through the gathered audience. Occupying and emanating from the centre of the AGO, the words and stories that flow through the “microphone” will reflect on expanded conceptions of time and human evolution, while embodying a slowness that resists contemporary temporal frameworks.
Computational Arts Professor Joel Ong’s Aeolian Traces is an immersive installation that utilizes a hybridization of data harvesting, physical installation, algorithmic composition and spatial sound. He is one of six artists in The Gladstone Hotel’s Fly By Night in the hotel’s second floor studios public space at 1214 Queen Street West in Toronto.
Digital rendering for Joel Ong’s Aeolian Traces
The piece explores the notions of home and transience especially within today’s context of globalism, migration and cultural nomadism. Presented through a combination of a multi-channel sound diffusion system and an eight-channel DC motor fan setup, the piece creates wind currents in a gallery space triggered/controlled by human migration data. Visitors are invited to interact with the system by including personal travel histories through an interface that dynamically aggregates and alters the installation’s audio-visual contents. An ephemeral installation of sound and wind, the piece proposes human movement as an ambient and critically ‘natural’ medium.
Two of Nuit Blanche’s four curators for the city-produced exhibitions are AMPD alumni from the Department of Visual Arts & Art History.
Barbara Fischer
Barbara Fischer (MA ’99), executive director/chief curator of the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and the University of Toronto Art Centre as well as a professor in curatorial studies at the University of Toronto, curates Taking to the Streets located Queen’s Park and University of Toronto.
In her curatorial statement, Fisher writes: “Even in the normal course of everyday life, streets are complex sites. When social justice movements succeed, the street becomes the primordial site to celebrate and remember–such as in annual festivals like May Day and Pride. When there is no justice the street becomes the place where we rally and throw our voice together in a show of force. Festival and protest meet in the street. And art is associated with both, remembering by way of images, words, whispered histories, or monuments, the points where anger and power clash.”
Maria Hupfield. Photo by Jason Lujan
Maria Hupfield (MFA ’04), a member of Wasauksing First Nation in Ontario who is currently based in Brooklyn, New York, is an artist and co-owner of Native Art Department International, curates Life on Neebahgeezis; A Luminous Engagement on Bay Street between Albert Street and King Street, over to Queen Street and University Avenue
Hupfield states in her curatorial statement: “The moon provides the gift of a cosmic perspective by connecting all of our relations both human and non, through the seasons, land and water, beyond the body without discrimination. In an act of solidarity building, five artists from across Canada indigenize the Toronto downtown financial district to make space for new possibilities and future imaginings. Informed by lived experience, diverse cultural knowledge and creative vision, the projects signal resilience while this sphere in the sky watches over us, luminous, glowing, timeless; everlasting life. An Anishinaabe interpretation and tribute to the late David Bowie’s song Life on Mars – a critique of entertainment, ‘neebahgeezis’ is one word in the Anishinaabe language for ‘moon’.”
Winters Flea Market & Book Sale to take place Oct. 10 to 13
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A row of books on a shelf
Winters College’s annual Flea Market & Book Sale has hundreds of books, items of clothing, and various bits and bobs to be discovered.
The Winters College Flea Market & Book Sale will run Oct. 10 to 13 from 10am to 6pm each day in the Winters Junior Common Room, 012 Winters College, Keele campus. Everyone is welcome.
Come and browse. There will be books of all categories (even a few text books), clothing, CDs and various other items.
In addition to the wonderful buys, there will be various performances for shoppers to enjoy that will take place during the event.
For more information, check out the Winters College website or contact the Winters College Masters Office at wcmaster@yorku.ca or 416-650-8199.
Current and former York students and faculty dominate new theatrical production
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Two fourth-year students in York’s School of Arts, Performance, Media and Design are working with former chair of York’s Theatre Department, Robert Fothergill, on a new theatrical production opening Sept. 27.
Chelsea Driver (set and costumes) and Haley Duncan (sound) join a cast and crew for the production Let’s Go – A Godot Prequel that includes York alumni as well as current and retired faculty.
Robert Fothergill
Fothergill, the playwright, presents the play for 12 performances at the Backspace of Theatre Passe Muraille from Sept. 28 to Oct. 8.
Timed to coincide with the last two weeks of the run of Waiting for Godot at Soulpepper, Let’s Go! introduces Gogo and Didi as an aspiring, and not very good, Vaudeville duo, on a tandem bicycle, in 1913 – 40 years before the first production of Samuel Beckett’s play, when the notion of Godot first enters their lives.
The plays is directed by York MFA grad Mark Cassidy, and stars York alumni Tony Ofori and Heather-Marie Annis. Producer Sarah Thorpe and Stage Manager Ana-Marija Stojic are also alumni, while former chair of York’s Theatre Department Liz Asselstine works as the lighting designer.
For tickets and showtimes, call 416-504-7529 or visit ArtsBoxOffice.ca.
TTC to conduct emergency preparedness exercise at York University Station
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The York University Station on the Keele campus
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) recently announced an opening date of Dec. 17 for the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension. As part of its extensive testing procedures, on the morning of Wednesday, Oct. 25, the TTC will be conducting an emergency preparedness exercise on the Keele Campus at the new York University Station. This exercise will impact transportation on and off campus (details to come). All classes, tests and exams will proceed as per normal, as will other regular campus programming.
The York University Station on the Keele campus
Exercise Rolling Thunder is an emergency preparedness collaborative effort led by the TTC, involving partner agencies in Toronto and York Region, and the York University community. It is a large-scale simulation exercise involving approximately 700 participants. The exercise is designed to allow the TTC to test its own emergency processes and procedures at track level and the collaboration, coordination and communication of the response among emergency responders so that Fire, EMS and Police are prepared to handle any situation on the new section of Line 1.
Since the new subway line runs under York University property, York’s Community Safety Department and other University departments are using this unique opportunity to test the University’s own emergency preparedness and response processes and are working closely with the TTC to test York’s operational and communications procedures.
The University is also using the emergency exercise as a unique experiential learning opportunity. Students from York’s Disaster and Emergency Management Program (Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies) will be involved in the simulation, along with Nursing and Kinesiology students (Faculty of Health) who will participate as passengers complete with make-up. Students from the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) will assist in videoing the event for future training and education purposes.
Leading up to the Rolling Thunder Exercise detailed transportation changes and weekly reminders will be published in YFile, posted on the campus LCD Screen Network, circulated via email and posted to social media.
For more information or if you have questions regarding Exercise Rolling Thunder, contact Kathy Branton, manager, Emergency Preparedness Program, Community Safety Department, by email to brantonk@yorku.ca.
