Search

Byline: Martin Lockshin Martin Lockshin is a university professor emeritus at York University. A crimonious debates are taking place on campuses throughout North America about the apparent clash between the [...]

Byline: MIKE HAGER, SEAN FINE A York University sociology professor who studies protests and at least two other employees of the school have been placed on leave from their jobs [...]

Byline: JOE FRIESEN; Staff Student leaders at the University of Toronto Mississauga say Ontario's Minister of Colleges and Universities 'defamed' them in the provincial legislature and has betrayed the government's [...]

Byline: JOE FRIESEN; Staff York University says it will begin a process that could lead to the school withdrawing its recognition of its student unions in response to a controversial [...]

Byline: STEVEN J. HOFFMAN, ROOJIN HABIBI Lead Steven J. Hoffman is the director of the Global Strategy Lab and a professor of global health, law and political science at York [...]

Lead When a major disaster affecting hundreds of thousands of people strikes, such as 2013's massive flood in Calgary or ice storm in Toronto, determining how to best provide emergency [...]

Byline: MAHNOOR YAWAR In a remarkable ruling that called out rape culture and criticized the way survivors are treated by the justice system, Mustafa Ururyar was found guilty on Thursday [...]

Byline: PAUL ATTFIELD Recognizing the need to give students real-world experience as well as the ability to apply what they've learned in class about asset management, York University this year [...]

Byline: Muhammad Ali Khalidi Re When Politics And Art Collide (Jan. 28): As a faculty member at York University, I take issue with the fact that the mural controversy has [...]

Byline: LIAM CASEY; The Canadian Press TORONTO -- Three Toronto-area universities have taken down posters around campus that appear to advertise a students' group for white students. The University of [...]

Byline: KRISTY HOFFMAN A York University student has filed a complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, alleging the school's policy on sexual assault discriminates against victims, most of [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK rcarrick@globeandmail.com No wonder it's such a struggle to raise the level of financial literacy. Current efforts to teach people about money are boring and a turn-off to [...]

Byline: SIMONA CHIOSE The Liberal government defended its decision Wednesday to pick one winner from 19 proposals submitted for new postsecondary campuses, but some universities said they were disappointed that [...]

Byline: JANET McFARLAND Dezso Horvath has high hopes that visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will help spur his long-delayed dream of opening a major university program in India to [...]

Byline: Simona Chiose Who makes $42 an hour and goes on strike? It's a question Toronto residents were asking when confronted with the images of teaching assistants and sessional instructors [...]

Byline: SIMONA CHIOSE TORONTO -- The unprecedented walkout by teaching assistants at York University and the University of Toronto at the same time is likely to be short-lived as the [...]

Byline: Showey Yazdanian In the short term, the contract faculty who teach the majority of courses at York University are striking for higher wages. In the long run, contract teaching [...]

Byline: SIMONA CHIOSE The battle between York University and almost 4,000 striking workers over the lack of job security for contract faculty is underscoring a major shift in how undergraduate [...]

Byline: Dakshana Bascaramurty R.I.P. Toronto tunnel, we hardly knew ye. After what was likely months of arduous work, your neatly excavated innards were crudely filled in by police earlier this [...]

Byline: ANN HUI Toronto police are investigating the discovery of a mysterious, seven-metre long tunnel near York University. A source with knowledge of the investigation said the tunnel, about 21/2 [...]

Charles Cipolla, Board Chair, Gore Mutual Insurance Company, is pleased to announce the following appointments to the Board of Directors: Susan Black is Managing Director of the Crossbar Group Inc., [...]

Byline: BRUCE SANDY ASK AN EXPERT THE QUESTION I graduated three years ago from York University with a degree in political science. I received good grades and aspired to work [...]

Byline: AMIRA ELGHAWABY RIGHTS CONFLICTS The furor around York University's recent decision to overrule a professor's attempt at balancing competing human rights has largely missed a crucial point - accommodation [...]

Byline: PAUL GRAYSON RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATION Professor of sociology at York University For the past week, York University has been widely criticized for the way it handled a male student's request [...]

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION Freedom of religion, thought and conscience are cornerstone Canadian liberties, enshrined in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and given life by a long history preceding it. The [...]

Byline: LYSIANE GAGNON YORK UNIVERSITY lgagnon@lapresse.ca Bernard Drainville, the minister responsible for Quebec's controversial secular charter project, was quick to exploit the York University reasonable accommodation story, predicting that the [...]

Byline: SHEEMA KHAN YORK UNIVERSITY sheema.khan@globeandmail.com Should religious belief justify gender segregation in university classrooms? According to York University professor J. Paul Grayson of York University and his sociology department [...]

THE CONVERSATION Re Religious Accommodation Case Highlights A Collision Of Rights (Jan. 9): Martin Singer, the dean of York University's Faculty of Arts, argues that a male student's religion-based request [...]

Byline: Don Rubin Re Is He Or Isn't He: That Is The Question (Arts & Life, Oct. 17): I was disappointed by what I consider a poorly argued attack on [...]

THE CONVERSATION IF SHAKESPEARE REALLY WROTE THOSE PLAYS Re Is He Or Isn't He: That Is The Question (Life & Arts, Oct. 17): So some professors in the English and [...]

A Wednesday obituary on lawyer Austin Cooper said he graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. In fact, Osgoode Hall became part of York University after Mr. Cooper [...]

Byline: CAROLINE ALPHONSO FOLIO: EGYPT IN TURMOIL / CANADIANS IN CAIRO Two Canadians - an emergency-room physician and a filmmaker - are being held in an Egyptian prison amid the [...]

Byline: PAUL WALDIE GIVING BACK The donor Ignat Kaneff The Gift: $5-million The Cause: York University, Toronto The Reason: To finance a new engineering program When Ignat Kaneff came to [...]

Byline: LARRY MacDONALD; Special to The Globe and Mail Esper Nemi, 21 Occupation Finance major at Schulich School of Business, York University The (club's) portfolio Currently out of the market [...]

Byline: TIMOTHY APPLEBY CRIME News that a now-suspended football coach at York University is charged with child luring and attempting to manufacture child pornography has prompted other complainants to step [...]

Tim Falconer is an instructor at Ryerson University in Toronto, not York University, as stated in Saturday's Books [...]

Diamond to unveil plans for Osgoode Hall wing What do opera and lawyers have in common? Toronto architect Jack Diamond. Fresh off his widely acclaimed design of Toronto's new Four [...]

Byline: ROBERT FOTHERGILL; Department of Theatre, York University Toronto -- Following last year's rather moving ceremony, at which a set of old lecture notes was deposited in the Locker of [...]

Byline: Staff York University has reached down the QEW to select a career engineering researcher and administrator as its next president. Mamdouh Shoukri was announced last night as York's seventh [...]

Eileen Mercie Hugh Mackenzie Jean Turmel The following appointments have been made to the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board. Eileen Mercier is the new Chair, replacing Robert W. Korthals who [...]

Byline: Graeme MacDermid Toronto -- Schulich School of Business York [...]

Byline: Anthony H. Richmond Toronto -- Professor Emeritus York [...]

Mary Traill took this photograph of the spiral staircase at The Student Centre at York University in August, [...]

Byline: GAY ABBATE BY GAY ABBATE The Globe and Mail John Conway, a Canadian-born history professor who left prestigious Harvard University to join the first generation of teachers at the [...]

What: The $1.1-million du Maurier Ltd. Open, Canada's international women's tennis championships. One of the WTA Tour's's nine Tier I championships for 1995. Where: At the National Tennis Centre at [...]

Byline: JENNIFER LEWINGTON Toronto ONT -- BY JENNIFER LEWINGTON Education Reporter TORONTO Canada's professor of the year can't get hired by her own university. Diana Cooper-Clark, named this week as [...]

William A. Dimma J. Keith Robson Interlink Freight Systems is pleased to announce the election of William A. Dimma as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company. William [...]

Byline: LAWRENCE SURTEES Toronto ONT -- BY LAWRENCE SURTEES Telecommunications Reporter TORONTO The music industry cried foul over the loss of royalties when people recorded songs on audio tape; now [...]

Byline: SUSAN BOURETTE BY SUSAN BOURETTE The Globe and Mail An Ontario consortium has launched the first phase of a multimedia venture that will eventually link a community of 'smart [...]

TEN YEARS ago, when Trevor Owen was a high-school English teacher at Riverdale Collegiate in Toronto, Canada's first electronic literary magazine came on the scene. Called SwiftCurrent, the York University-based [...]