Professor Kinnon MacKinnon's pursuit of through the DARE study research is highlighted in The New 91亚色 Times.

Professor Patricia Lakin-Thomas talks to The Jerusalem Post about daylight saving time and ongoing concerns about its impact on public health. Lakin-Thomas says Daylight Saving Time is shown to contribute to higher numbers of car accidents, heart attacks, strokes, and workplace injuries. The time is long overdue to , she adds.

In an op-ed for The Conversation, Professor Jack L. Rozdilsky gives public safety tips to Swifties attending Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, which has six shows in Toronto starting Nov. 14. Toronto's mayor has expressed confidence that the shows will be safe, and that comprehensive security measures will be in place. "In addition to preparing for fun, spend a little time considering concert safety tips which stress situational awareness," writes Rozdilsky. " If something does not seem right to you, it probably is not right." Rozdilsky is also quoted in an article about published in The Week.

If you see something, say something. If something does not seem right to you, it probably is not right.

Rozdilsky writes in The Conversation

Ontario grocery stores are saying the new bottle return requirements may make it impossible to participate in Premier Doug Ford's expansion of alcohol sales. Sebastian Prins, the director of government relations for the Ontario section of the Retail Council of Canada, says the majority of the larger stores are planning to add alcohol sales at locations within five kilometres of a Beer Store, meaning they aren't obligated to accept empties right away. The Canadian Press reports that Prins is working with a to assess the costs and logistics.

Professor Dennis Pilon weighs in on a聽report shelved by Mayor Oliva Chow that recommended Toronto city councillors receive a raise of more than 22 per cent to bring them in line with other municipalities. He says it's important for elected officials to earn "sufficient" salaries to compensate them for their work and ensure that it's not only the rich who can afford to run for office. However, Pilon says that councillors voting on whether to increase their own pay . Professor Joe Mihevc, who served on council for nearly three decades until 2018, tells Toronto Star that councillors are "absolutely" underpaid, estimating that between city hall meetings on weekdays, and community events on evenings and weekends, most regularly work 12-hour days. In a separate op-ed on the subject, Mihevc writes about why politicians deserve a pay raise. "Residents need to know when they are to both work long and often difficult hours and then also to accept a smaller salary," writes Mihevc for Toronto Star. In an article for CBC, Mihevc weighs in on聽the mayor facing political and economic challenges as the city puts together its 2025 budget. He says to balance the books next year.

Professor Robert Savage comments on a new survey that found university students studying to become teachers could correctly answer only 60 per cent of the questions on phonics. Savage says the results show a structural issue across institutions. 鈥� So, it clearly does have impacts,鈥� he says.

Professor Sean Tulin weighs in on dark matter which may account for roughly聽85 percent of the universe's mass.聽The case for the existence of dark matter goes back to the 1930s when astronomers analyzed the rates at which galaxies rotate and found there isn't enough visible matter to account for the observed spin rates.聽For the last few decades, the leading theory has been that this unseen substance is made up of weakly interacting massive particles or WIMPs.聽"," Tulin tells Smithsonian Magazine.

Daydreaming in the Solar System: Surfing Saturn鈥檚 Rings, Golfing on the Moon, and Other Adventures in Space Exploration, a new book by professors John E. Moores and Jesse Rogerson invites readers to take a voyage through space with a "behind the science" look at what's possible. 鈥淲e paired really interesting places with really weird things to be doing there,鈥� Rogerson tells CTV News. 鈥�, that was sort of a natural one because a human has golfed on the moon before. Mars has really interesting clouds, so we have cloud watching like you鈥檙e at a picnic. We imagine what it would be like to be doing a cave dive on this moon of Saturn. It was totally an imagination run wild where we were imagining ourselves, or some astronaut, doing some weird activity in some weird place and how the physics of the place would affect the activity.鈥�

Alumna Hortense Anglin, 87, received a standing ovation from guests and fellow graduates on Oct. 17 as she walked across the stage to receive her bachelor's and was congratulated by the platform party at 91亚色's in-person fall convocation. CP24 about her experience as a mature student, and CTV News wrote about .

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TORONTO, April 21, 2021 鈥� Changes to health, sexual and physical education curriculums in Ontario had a dramatic effect on teachers, but those lessons are even more salient today, says 91亚色 Professor Sarah Flicker.

The lessons learned from changes to these curriculums in 2015 and 2019 are outlined in a new report, , launching Tuesday.

Although most teachers interviewed for this report welcomed changes to the 1998 health, sex and physical education curriculum, they felt highly surveilled and stressed, and frustrated with the way the new curriculums were rolled out without adequate supports, training and resources. In the space of several years, they were asked to teach three different curriculums.

The researchers wanted to know how teachers at the frontlines of this confluence of ideological battles between governments, parents, teachers, human rights, and students were navigating this charged political environment, and what could be done differently next time.

鈥淲hile we collected the data pre-COVID, in many ways I think so many of the recommendations that are coming out of this report in terms of the kind of supports that teachers need, and more supportive work environments, are even more salient today,鈥� says Professor , 91亚色 Research Chair in Community-Based Participatory Research in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change.

鈥淭hey鈥檙e trying to navigate teaching and learning and communicating around health and safety in this new environment, in this very changed landscape, thinking about sexuality, risk and relationships. I don鈥檛 think public health has had a moment when more of us were paying attention to things like hygiene and setting boundaries, understanding consent, and understanding the well-being of ourselves and others.鈥�

Health and physical education teachers play an important role in helping young people think about their bodies, their well-being, making safer decisions and reducing risks, but in many ways, teachers are even more surveilled now as they Zoom in from their homes into their students鈥� homes, says Flicker.

The report will launch at a virtual event 鈥� Teaching Health & Physical Education in Uncertain Times 鈥� on Tuesday, April 27, from 4 to 6 pm.

The event will include a talk by Flicker on the key findings of her study, followed by Faculty of Education Professor Sarah Barrett sharing her final report, Emergency Distance Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Teachers鈥� Perspectives, released last month. To register, visit the zoom conference registration .

For the Changing the Rules study, Flicker and her team, including Faculty of Education Associate Professor , interviewed 34 teachers who had taught health and physical education in K-12 Ontario schools for at least five years. They hailed from 17 school boards, including public school boards, independent First Nations boards, Catholic boards, and French boards.

Almost all teachers interviewed agreed the curriculum needed updating and the proposed changes were important. They felt young people need to be able to talk about how things like cell phones and the Internet impact their lives, including sexually and romantically, and have teachers be able to discuss these issues with them as part of the curriculum. Many felt that sharing information about substance use, STIs, pregnancy, hygiene, and healthy relationships would help young people make decisions that would help them grow up to live happier or healthier lives.

Teachers said they need more resources particularly in the context of changing demographics in Ontario.

鈥淎s the province becomes more diverse, teachers need resources that reflect that diversity and help them have health and physical education conversations in ways that honour very different cultural traditions and understandings around the body and health, and well-being,鈥� says Flicker.

Some of the suggestions for the future included changing the curriculum incrementally on a regular basis to ensure it remains relevant and responsive to the changing realities of Ontario students. Diverse stakeholders should be included in future consultations to ensure the curriculum is meeting the needs of all students and their communities. In addition, policies, templates and strategies need to be put in place to accommodate those students not participating in sex education classes. A culture of learning and support for teachers and students should be fostered.

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