York University sets the bar low because challenging the intellectual assumptions of the student body is considered an act of ‘violence’. Read that right folks, hearing alternative world views will negatively affect student safety… at a University. “Two days before I was due to travel to York, the event was
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Alberta Politics: Leo Panitch, intellectual pillar of the Canadian left, dead at 75 of COVID-19
Leo Victor Panitch, one of the intellectual pillars of the Canadian left and a leading scholar of the global depredations of neoliberalism, died Saturday from COVID-19. He was 75. Born into a working class Jewish family in Winnipeg in 1945, Dr. Panitch was a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Continue readingTHE CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE: Maude Barlow: “A life of activism gives hope, energy and direction”
by: Maude Barlow | June 19, 2014 I received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from York University in Toronto this morning. Here are my speaking notes for the Convocation ceremony: Chancellor Gregory Sorbara, President Mamdouh Shoukri, the Senate of York University, and all the graduation students, It is a great
Continue readingThings Are Good: Focus on Sustainability Film Festival
York University in Toronto will be hosting their third annual film festival all about sustainability. This year they are running films about oil. If you’re in Toronto next weekend or nearby you should check out what’s playing and take the bus to the festival. Planet in Focus with York University
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: How Does The Progressive World Respond To This?
I sometimes wonder about whether the term progressive calls up some kind of a stereotype. When people think of progressives, do they have a picture which I would consider reasonably accurate – people who believe in the ardent pursuit of justice, fairness and equity in society, and the breaking down
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: On That Accomodation Thing Up At York U
I find myself in the minority on this one, thinking that the University should have accomodated student X, even if the accomodation was to placate the fellow’s religuously induced discomfort with women. An interesting bit of news came out this morning: [Rhonda Lenton, Provost for York U] told host Matt Galloway the
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: 200,000 Canadians Experience Homelessness Each Year, Says New Report
By: York University | Press Release: TORONTO, June 19, 2013 – The Canadian Homelessness Research Network (Homeless Hub) and the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness released the first extensive Canadian report card on homelessness called State of Homelessness in Canada: 2013 today in Toronto. Highlights of the report include: 200,000 different Canadians experience homelessness
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Students Against Israeli Apartheid Banned At York University
…for being too noisy. Which sounds like a way of getting rid of them while circumventing the free speech issues a more direct approach might entail. Although this comment from the SAIA York Facebook page gives some credence to the York Admin’s stated rationale: Again, it looks better when you
Continue readingFacing Autism Disorders in New Brunswick: York University Study Joins Ranks Of Those Raising Questions About The DSM5 Autism Do-Over
In Autism diagnosis change questioned by York University study Toronto Star Science & Technology Reporter Kate Allen interviews Dr. Adrienne Perry and York University undergraduate student, Azin Taheri, about a study designed by Taheri, with assistance from Dr. Perry, which had been intended to look at how the new DSM-5
Continue readingCarleton makes amends … sort of
Carleton University has finally attempted to atone for accepting what was little better than a bribe and then trying to cover it up. In 2010, the university made a secret deal with Calgary businessman Clayton Riddell which, in return for a $15-million donation for a graduate program in political management,
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Nurses Grieve Too
An underexplored or ignored aspect of nursing professional life: how nurses working in a Labour and Delivery unit grieve over the loss of their patients, and how this grief affects care and support of survivors. What is really striking about the film is the culture of mutual support and respect
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