Two psychology profs investigate coping mechanisms during the pandemic, and discover that people are consuming more alcohol, particularly if they’ve lost income; they’re drinking alone and feeling isolated; and those with children are using alcohol to cope with stress. Knowing this could help healthcare practitioners create better, more tailored and evidence-based interventions.
Read moreAs a new year emerges, YFile takes a look back on 2020 to share with readers a snapshot of the year’s highlights. “Year in Review” will run as a three-part series and will feature a random selection of top news stories published in YFile. Here are the stories and highlights for September to December, 2020.
Read moreTwo new Canada Research Chairs have been appointed at York University and three existing CRCs have been renewed. These commitments by the Government of Canada will support research on topics ranging from the many uses of artificial intelligence to what a self-determined climate future would look like for Indigenous communities.
Read more‘Lighting the Fire: Experiences of Indigenous Faculty in Ontario Universities’ is a new report on a survey conducted by the Council of Ontario Universities. It is an important document and includes input from Indigenous faculty at York University.
Read moreArchive/Counter-Archive will present a 2020 online symposium Dec. 10 & 11. This year’s theme is “Black lives and archival histories in Canada.” The symposium will feature artist Deanna Bowen delivering a keynote and two panels. All events, which will be presented entirely online, will not be recorded.
Read moreA paper out of York University is included in a special collection of “Health Promotion Practice” that focuses on health engagement, knowledge and participating in Indigenous communities. The eight papers included in the special collection are available for free download until Nov. 30.
Read moreThe series, “Opening the Schoolhouse to All,” poses a series of questions that panelists will take up in successive sessions beginning on Tuesday, Nov. 17 and concluding in January 2021. The first session, “The Promise of Equity: Race, Multiculturalism, and First Nations Education” is scheduled for Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. and will be offered online.
Read moreDarrel Manitowabi, associate professor, Human Sciences and the Inaugural AMS Hannah Chair in the History of Indigenous Health and Indigenous Traditional Medicine at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), will deliver this special presentation.
Read moreOsgoode’s Environmental Justice & Sustainability Clinic and the MES/JD Joint Program will co-host a virtual panel discussion titled “The ‘Cost’ of Ontario’s Recovery: Indigenous and Environmental Perspectives on Bill 197, The COVID-19 Economic Recovery Act” on Oct. 28.
Read moreThe Indigenous Council of York University has issued a statement that calls on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to intervene and recognize the modest traditional fishery affirmed by Canada’s Supreme Court and to stop the violence of commercial fisherman.
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