Professor and Dean of AMPD Sarah Bay-Cheng, a former NCAA basketball player, weighs in on the new name for Toronto's PWHL team, the Toronto Sceptres, which a local fan says isn't very catchy. "In sports, there's . But if the team is good and the hockey is good, then over time that will define the name more than the name will define the hockey," Bay-Cheng tells Toronto Star. "The most important thing is that the players are having good games and the manager is putting a good team on the ice and there's fun and energy around."

In sports, there's a long history of team names that people didn't love at first. But if the team is good and the hockey is good, then over time that will define the name more than the name will define the hockey.

Bay-Cheng speaking to Toronto Star

After the Toronto Sceptres name and branding was revealed on Monday, Taylor Swift fans noticed the logo was eerily similar to a 'TS' emblem featured on the front of a cheerleader uniform sported by the pop star in her 2014 music video for the single "Shake It Off." Professor Vijay Setlur spoke to Toronto Star for an article about the similarities and how the coincidence could play out. "You can launch a legal action, but then how is it going to look to your fans?"聽asked Setlur. He said superstars such as Swift are more concerned about intellectual property theft related to their music. A legal case for trademark infringement would have to prove deception, and the Sceptres could claim fair use. " This might be something that's not even worth bothering. Plus, it's a women's hockey team and not a drug company or a political organization. It's a good thing, an entity that's respectful."

Professor Antulio Rosales weighs in on Venezuela's opposition running out of options for challenging President Nicolas Maduro's claim to have won reelection. Opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia fled in exile to Spain last weekend. Other oppositional figures have been arrested or are in hiding while Maduro insists he won and has 鈥斅燼t least publically 鈥� ruled out any kind of negotiation with the opposition. " and, to the contrary, it is digging in," says Rosales to the International Business Times.

Professor Emeritus Daniel Drache and co-author question whether authoritarian populism is finally being rejected by citizens around the world in an op-ed for The Conversation. " If enough citizens who believe in the values of democracy show up to cast their ballots, populist forces near and far could sooner or later get clobbered," they write.

Getting out the vote is always the key to defeating authoritarianism.

Drache and co-author for The Conversation

颁补苍补诲补鈥檚 federal labour board ordered Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPK) railways, along with over 9,000 other workers, back to work and into binding arbitration, but , writes Professor Bruce Campbell in his op-ed for The Conversation.

Air Canada's pilots are in a legal strike position as of Sept. 17, raising concerns about labour unrest in the country's air travel sector. In an op-ed for The Globe and Mail, Professor Steven Tufts writes about the airline, which has returned to profitability, facing contract renegotiations with both pilots and flight attendants, who are seeking significant wage increases after a decade-long freeze. "All of this is compounded by the fact that the government has recently flexed its muscle in the transportation sector to limit workers鈥� right to strike," writes Tufts, adding that and add to the challenge of maintaining stable labour relations in the sector.

In an op-ed for The Conversation, Professor Emeritus Joel Lexchin and co-authors address Africa's need for an estimated 10 million doses of the mpox vaccine. " when it comes to accessing vaccines, diagnostics and treatments. This is a story that has been repeated multiple times in the past few decades 鈥� with HIV/AIDS, Ebola and most recently COVID," they write. Maldistribution is not inevitable, they add, but it's also not a problem Africa can solve on its own: "A new set of global rules is also needed to ensure all countries work cooperatively to prevent, prepare for and respond to pandemics and to share vaccines and other needed medical products."

This weekend: Friends of the Muskoka Watershed (FOTMW) has partnered with Peerless (Sunset Cruises) to host Peer Under the Surface, a guided tour of Lake Rosseau. Leaving the Port Carling dock at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 15, passengers aboard the tour boat will make a net and cruise the Muskoka waterways until noon. 鈥淲e鈥檒l be going out with dip nets, and ," says Professor Norman Yan, founding chair of FOTMW and one of the scientists leading the cruise. Tickets are $64 and funds will go towards tackling local environmental issues.

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Professor Sean Hillier is prioritizing Indigenous voices in health research. The subject of a profile in University Affairs, Hillier's work spans Indigenous health policy, technology's impacts on Indigenous communities, and infectious diseases. 鈥� a United Nations initiative that takes an integrated approach to balancing the health of people, animals and the environment. "My great interest is thinking through Indigenous health and Indigenous health governance and policy," says Hillier. "I'm very interested in the impacts of tech and AI on Indigenous data governance, on Indigenous sovereignty, and on Indigenous colonization via new emerging technologies."

Professor Deborah McGregor led a presentation at the recent TechNations 2024 where she discussed a framework that's been developed for a First Nations-focused source water protection plan as current federal and provincial water governance policies do not adequately protect some First Nations, reports Anishinabek News. "For a lot of communities, water has been contaminated or deteriorated over time," says McGregor, whose research has focused on . "We're trying to develop a process that helps us recognize what we did for thousands of years and the challenges that are our realities right now and how do we work with that."

Reverend, refugee activist and professor emeritus, Michael Creal died Aug. 23 at the age of 97. A priest in the Anglican Church of Canada, Creal had received the Order of Canada in June in recognition of his . He worked at 91亚色 starting in the 1960s, as a professor and in positions including head of the division of humanities and founder of the Centre for Refugee Studies.

Petra Molnar, associate director of the Refugee Law Lab, speaks to Nahlah Ayed of CBC Radio's Ideas for part three of . At a time when more people are forcibly displaced than at any other point in recorded history, Ayed speaks with guests about where the rights to leave, return and seek refuge in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights came from, and what they could mean today. As a guest on the Legally Speaking podcast, Molnar discusses in the U.S., including its criminalization, A.I. discrimination鈥� and more.

Professor Laura Taylor talks to The Canadian Press about the history of guerrilla gardening. Taylor says the term was coined in the 1970s in Brooklyn. " where buildings had been taken down because they were unsafe, and then the vacant lot was just left," she says, adding that the plot "went from a place that was an eyesore to a place where people were growing vegetables and getting food from it."

Professor Duygu Biricik Gulseren comments on forced returns to the office and the rise of new tech leaving managers in a precarious position as stewards of employee wellbeing. A recent PwC survey shows 45 per cent of respondents have had to learn new skills or technologies in order to do their job, The Globe and Mail reports. The same percentage report their . "In the past, there would be time between learning and applying, and now many are doing both at the same time," says Gulseren. "There's more to learn, and also not enough time to learn because of the rate of change."

Professor Winny Shen weighs in on the quest for a better work-life balance being not just a Gen Z issue. Since the pandemic, it's become common for companies of all sizes to allow employees with desk jobs to work from home or remotely at least part of the time. "Workers are paying more attention to whether an employer offers flexible conditions when they're considering who they want to work for. And while there are some kinds of jobs where you have to be on site, many employers are realizing that for other jobs ," Shen tells The Globe and Mail, pointing to a study that found remote workers generally have better outcomes in the work they deliver than office-based colleagues.

Workers are paying more attention to whether an employer offers flexible conditions when they鈥檙e considering who they want to work for.

Shen speaking to The Globe and Mail

Professor Emeritus Craig Heron discusses on CBC Radio's Metro Morning with host David Common.

Professor Lyndsay Hayhurst and co-author write about "deeply entrenched inequities and challenges facing girls and women in sport, such as body confidence and support for athletes with small children" in an op-ed for The Conversation. Referencing a new initiative, Sport Your Period, that is breaking taboos by paying athletes to discuss their experiences with menstruation, they write about . "What鈥檚 needed is a more comprehensive approach to menstrual health education for coaches and athletes through the sport organizations that govern global, national and local sport systems," they write.

Professor Thomas Klassen and former political science student Matthew Cerilli (BA 鈥�24) discuss campaign ethics in an op-ed for The Conversation, referencing Former U.S. President Donald Trump amplifying a misogynist and offensive comment made about Vice President Kamala Harris on Truth Social. "This latest Trump smear takes place as in both Canada and the United States," they write.

CBC Books: Walking & Stealing by Professor Stephen Cain has been named one of 44 Canadian . Cain is the author of six full-length collections of poetry and a dozen chapbooks. Walking & Stealing is a threefold collection of poems about baseball, Toronto and immersing oneself in deep thoughts. Professor Christina Sharpe is celebrated in a . Sharpe's Ordinary Notes won the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Sharpe was also awarded the 2024 Windham-Campbell Prize for nonfiction. Her book "explores the complexities of Black life and loss through a series of 248 notes that intertwine past and present realities."

Reminder: A guided tour of Lake Rosseau is happening on Sunday, Sept. 15. Friends of the Muskoka Watershed (FOTMW) has partnered with Peerless (Sunset Cruises) to host Peer Under the Surface. Leaving the Port Carling dock at 10 a.m., passengers aboard the tour boat will make a net and cruise the Muskoka waterways until noon. 鈥淲e鈥檒l be going out with dip nets, and ," says Professor Norman Yan, founding chair of FOTMW and one of the scientists leading the cruise. Tickets are $64 and funds will go towards tackling local environmental issues.

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An upcoming byelection in Montr茅al will have the longest ballot in the history of Canadian federal elections. At least 91 candidates will be on the ballot Sept. 16 with 79 of them linked to a group protesting Canada's first-past-the-post voting system. Professor Dennis Pilon talks to CTV News. He says electoral reform advocates have been frustrated by the unwillingness of 颁补苍补诲补鈥檚 major political parties to change the country鈥檚 voting system. 鈥淲hat we鈥檙e seeing here is that 鈥� says Pilon.

In the behind-the-scenes push leading up to the nearly $58 million in provincial funding for a new kindergarten to Grade 12 Catholic school in Wasaga Beach, a developer owning most of the land where the school will be built hosted a $1,000-per-plate fundraiser for Stephen Lecce, Ontario's education minister at the time. Speaking to The Trillium, Professor Ian Stedman, who worked in the provincial integrity commissioner鈥檚 office from 2011 to 2014, says .

Sarah Bay-Cheng, a professor and dean of the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, weighs in on the open invitation to suggest names and branding for Toronto's WNBA team that is set to start play in less than two years. Bay-Cheng, who is also a former NCAA basketball player, tells the Toronto Star that team names in the WNBA carry a stronger social and cultural connection than their NBA counterparts, often reflecting a team's identity and place. " has some capacity to evolve, a sense of who we are and who we have been," she says.

An alleged decade-long secret romantic relationship between RBC's Chief Financial Officer Nadine Ahn and finance executive Ken Mason led to their firings, which are now being challenged in court. RBC is seeking to recover over $3 million from both executives for breaching the company鈥檚 code of conduct, while Ahn and Mason are challenging their terminations with wrongful dismissal claims. Professor Richard Leblanc weighs in on the significance of RBC鈥檚 approach to clawbacks, highlighting how the bank's actions 鈥� seeking to recover compensation based on a breach of conduct rather than financial restatements 鈥� demonstrate a rigorous adherence to ethical standards in executive management. "Banks are generally regarded as the best-governed corporations in all the country," Leblanc tells Fortune. ""

鈥淚n some cases, obesity is associated with serious health problems, but it should not be treated as a result of seeing ads on TV or on streetcars. Instead of drug ads ending with the message that patients should ask their doctor if the drug is right for them, ,鈥� writes Professor Emeritus Dr. Joel Lexchin, in an op-ed for the Toronto Star on the advertising of Ozempic.

[Obesity] should not be treated as a result of seeing ads on TV or on streetcars.

Lexchin writes in Toronto Star

Professor Hannah Johnston, who specializes in the digitalization of work, discusses biometric monitoring in workplaces on CBC Radio, particularly the hospitality sector. 鈥淥ne of the reasons that is that we have not yet even begun to imagine the potential abuses for these types of data,鈥� she says. 鈥淯ntil we have limits around how data can be collected, how it can be used, rights around disposal, rights around storage, this is information that we should be reluctant to hand over to anyone else.鈥�

"The study of protection of historic sites during disaster tells us that ," writes Professor Jack L. Rozdilsky in an op-ed for Canadian Architect about the fire at St. Anne's Anglican Church in Toronto's Little Portugal neighbourhood. "In St. Anne's Church, a collection of religious murals 鈥� including some by the Group of Seven 鈥� form part of Toronto鈥檚 cultural patrimony that has now been lost." Fundraising efforts are now underway to support rebuilding.

You鈥檙e invited to peer under the surface of Muskoka鈥檚 waterways on Sunday, Sept. 15. Friends of the Muskoka Watershed (FOTMW) has partnered with Peerless (Sunset Cruises) to host a guided tour of Lake Rosseau. Leaving the Port Carling dock at 10 a.m., passengers aboard the tour boat will make a net and cruise the freshwater body until noon. 鈥淲e鈥檒l be going out with dip nets, and ," says Professor Norman Yan, founding chair of FOTMW and one of the scientists leading the cruise. Tickets are $64 and funds will go towards tackling local environmental issues.

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