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Byline: CBC News On Wednesday, you can see two of the brightest planets in the night sky come together. If you're looking toward the west after sunset, you'll be able [...]

Byline: CBC News An Ontario grandmother, who is the oldest person to graduate with a master's degree from York University, says young people should use their university education to make [...]

Byline: CBC News The Olympics may be over, but for many of the small businesses that sponsor Canadian athletes, now is the time for recognition. Team Canada's biggest financial supporters [...]

Byline: CBC News Elected officials should lean heavily on scientific evidence and advice from doctors to maintain the trust of Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new public [...]

Byline: CBC News Police are investigating after people at two Toronto universities had feces thrown on them last week. Investigators are looking into whether the two cases are connected. Police [...]

Byline: CBC News An archive of photos and research of plants and animals in Manitoba's tundra are now available online, providing public access to decades of Churchill, Man., history. Professors [...]

Byline: CBC News As honey bee colonies across Canada continue to die off at alarming rates, scientists at York University believe that solutions to the problem could be hiding in [...]

Byline: CBC News Islanders got a taste of how they can help conserve bumble bee populations on Prince Edward Island on Tuesday, just by using their smartphones. Victoria MacPhail, a [...]

Byline: CBC News A team of researchers at York University has warned that the American bumblebee is facing imminent extinction from Canada, and this could lead to 'cascading impacts' throughout [...]

Byline: CBC News For Kaleb Dahlgren, the A on his Humboldt Broncos jersey meant he was a team leader. That responsibility didn't end when with the fatal bus crash last [...]

Byline: CBC News York University nursing students are concerned they're being thrown into hospitals lacking crucial skills after losing up to 100 clinical hours due to the strike, and they're [...]

Byline: CBC News One of the Humboldt Broncos players who survived the horrific bus crash in April will lace up his skates for York University's men's hockey team in Saskatchewan [...]

Byline: CBC News A role-playing game out of New Zealand that promises to help teens with anxiety and depression is being reimagined by Nunavut youth. I-SPARX is a project to [...]

Byline: CBC News The search for missing Toronto woman Zabia Afzal continues this week after Monday's search of Lake Ontario found no sign of the 30-year-old York University student and [...]

Byline: CBC News Family and friends of missing York University graduate student Zabia Afzal are searching for her after she went missing Thursday morning. The 30-year-old PhD student and community [...]

Byline: CBC News A social networking tool aimed at connecting and supporting post-secondary Indigenous youth has received an Ontario Trillium grant to expand its network capacity. The Indigenous Friends Association, [...]

Byline: CBC News York University in Toronto will soon be the new home to the largest telescope on a Canadian university campus. On Thursday, the university announced that in 2018 [...]

Byline: CBC News A student group at York University is 'outraged' after it says an interaction with a loss prevention officer employed by the Shoppers Drug Mart store on campus [...]

Byline: CBC News Scientists at York University have created 3D heart cells that are able to beat in synchronization with existing heart cells. Until now, most 2D and 3D heart [...]

Byline: CBC News A judge has found a York University student guilty of sexually assaulting a 27-year-old PhD student from Winnipeg following a get-together at a Toronto bar last year. [...]

Byline: CBC News Teachers often throw around the term 'self-regulation' on report cards and in meetings with parents, but few understand it, say psychologists who've come up with a simple [...]

Byline: CBC News York University says it is suspending most academic activities amid an 'unfortunate' labour disruption. A statement on the university website, which is attributed to York president Mamdouh [...]

Byline: CBC News Two men in their 20s dug the bunker-like tunnel found in north Toronto as a 'man cave' to hang out in, police say. The tunnel, which was [...]

Byline: CBC News Teaching assistants and other staff at the University of Toronto will be on the picket line on Monday, having rejected a tentative offer that was tabled during [...]

Byline: CBC News Toronto police say a mysterious tunnel discovered near a Pan Am Games venue posed no risk to the summer sporting event, but they're still seeking the public's [...]

Byline: CBC News A Canadian company aims to launch a micro-rover and mini-lander to Mars in 2018. Thoth Technology, based in Pembroke, Ont., launched a campaign on Indiegogo today to [...]

Byline: CBC News Researchers at York University have discovered that moose saliva may help the animals control a potential dangerous toxin found in the grass they frequently eat. A professor [...]

Byline: CBC News Toronto police have made an arrest in connection with the York University shooting that sent two women to hospital on March 6. Kemon Edwards, 22, was arrested [...]

Byline: CBC News Toronto police say two women injured by gunfire at York University Thursday night were likely not targeted by the shooter. At 10:45 p.m. ET police were called [...]

Byline: CBC News Toronto Police are investigating a shooting at York University that injured two women Thursday night. The two women suffered non-life threatening injuries during a shooting at York [...]

Byline: CBC News Family and friends of two Canadians being detained in Egypt are hoping to hire a lawyer in Cairo today. John Greyson, a Toronto-based filmmaker and York University [...]

Byline: CBC News Some songbirds can't alter their migration schedule to take into account earlier, warmer springs as a result of climate change, and that could be deadly, Canadian researchers [...]

Byline: CBC News Bilingual children score higher on some cognitive tests than children who speak only English, a new Toronto study found. It's known that children who grow up speaking [...]

Byline: CBC News Ontario Federation of Labour president Sid Ryan says fatal construction accidents -- such as the collapse of a drilling rig at York University that killed a man [...]

Byline: CBC News The father of a York University student killed last month after a webcam recorded part of the attack said the pain of losing his only child is [...]

Byline: CBC News The boyfriend of slain York University student Liu Qian says he watched in horror via webcam from China last week as the young woman was attacked in [...]

Byline: CBC News The man charged with the first-degree murder of York University student Qian Liu had attended the school and recently worked for a NATO-affiliated think-tank. During a brief [...]

Byline: CBC News Police have not yet determined what caused the death of York University student Qian Liu, 23, who was found dead Friday in her basement apartment near the [...]

Byline: CBC News Toronto police have identified the young woman they believe died in her basement apartment near York University after struggling with someone who knocked at her door. Police [...]

Byline: CBC News Toronto university students are using the ancient art of origami to help raise money for disaster-stricken Japan. Watching the images of Japanese people suffering from the effects [...]

Byline: CBC News A Toronto police service officer will apologize for his conduct after he was heard telling women at a York University assembly they could avoid sexual assault by [...]

Byline: CBC Arts Toronto-based Canadian Stage is teaming up with York University to offer a new master's program for aspiring theatre directors, combining graduate studies with hands-on experience on professional [...]

Byline: CBC News A gas leak that forced evacuations at a number of buildings at York University has been capped, Toronto Fire Services says. The crew severed a gas line [...]

Byline: CBC News Bees found in downtown Toronto and the Okanagan desert are among 19 new species discovered by a university graduate student while he was working on his PhD. [...]

Byline: CBC News The marquee track and field events at the 2015 Pan Am Games will be held at York University. The university said in a news release on Monday [...]

Byline: CBC Arts Music lovers and organizers of Ontario's Mariposa Folk Festival are looking back at the history of the annual festival, which turns 50 later this month. Just this [...]

Byline: CBC News Municipalities that remove organic debris from catch basins before adding anti-mosquito larvicides should re-think that approach, a new study suggests. Researchers at York University found it was [...]

Byline: CBC Arts A new scholarship named for the late Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson will see $40,000 awarded in September to one aspiring musician entering a music program at [...]

York University and the union representing teaching assistants and contract faculty who brought the Toronto campus to a standstill with an 85-day strike have reached a tentative deal on a [...]

Byline: CBC Arts A collection of 2,500 cartoons by late Canadian cartoonist Ben Wicks that was the centre of a legal dispute has been donated to York University in Toronto. [...]