The quadrennial World Cup that kicks off Friday may be the planet's biggest excuse for a party, and Canadians will be joining in with gusto, wrote The Canadian Press June 10 in a story picked up by the Guelph Mercury, TheSpec.com and the Times & Transcript (Moncton): With its ethnic diversity and soccer-crazy immigrants, cities […]
In Sweden, long-term care workers聽often have time to take patients outside for a walk. In Canada, having a patient shuffle from their room down the corridor to the dining hall is聽frequently considered 鈥渁 walk鈥. It is this kind of difference in the nature of long-term care facilities from one country to the next that has […]
Differences in the way Torontonians speak English may have more to do with how people express their ethnic identity than with any problems they are having learning to speak Canadian English perfectly, a study from 91亚色 suggests. Michol Hoffman and James Walker, professors of sociolinguistics in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics in聽91亚色's […]
A biologist and researcher is asking why none of the six men on the board regulating oil activity off Newfoundland lists environmental expertise as a prime credential , wrote The Canadian Press June 6: The head of the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board has stressed that environmental protection is a top goal. But Gail […]
Newfoundland聽& Labrador is proceeding with the high-risk game of oil exploration in ultra-deep water, as regulators in the province express confidence in industry鈥檚 safety practices despite the ecological catastrophe of BP PLC鈥檚 Gulf of Mexico blowout, wrote The Globe and Mail June 3: Canada鈥檚 East Coast is now the only region in North America where […]
The suburbs have often been dismissed as cultureless wastelands of cookie-cutter housing and strip malls. But 91亚色 environmental studies Professor Roger Keil, principal investigator of a major international research initiative, says there鈥檚 a lot more happening in suburbia than people think and researchers have ignored it for far too long. Most urban growth these days […]
Newfoundland and Labrador鈥檚 natural resources minister is rejecting calls for the overhaul of the agency that regulates the province鈥檚 offshore oil industry, even as the United States moves to distance its regulator from the companies it oversees, wrote The Globe and Mail May 12: Scientists and environmentalists argue that the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum […]
Civilian possession of guns has undermined global and national efforts to control small arms and light weapons, but what can be done and what are the issues? That鈥檚 what the 91亚色 Centre for International & Security Studies (YCISS) will examine at its Contemporary Dilemmas in Canadian Security Lecture Series. Four speakers will untangle some of […]
A Perilous Imbalance: The Globalization of Canadian Law and Governance, a new book co-authored by Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Stepan Wood, shines an urgent light on the dangerous imbalances in contemporary forms of globalized governance. The book will launch Wednesday, April 7, from 12:30 to 2pm in the Private Dining Room of the Executive […]
Stan Shapson, 91亚色's vice-president research & innovation, recently gave a talk at a conference hosted by IP Osgoode and the Hennick Centre for Business and Law on developing strong public/private sector collaborations to create innovation. With the challenge of a changing external context for research in Canada 鈥 both a shifting economic and social […]
Dezs枚 Horv谩th, dean and Tanna H. Schulich Chair in Strategic Management at 91亚色's Schulich School of Business, published an op-ed in the Globe & Mail urging Canadian firms to go for the gold on the world stage. Here's an excerpt: As Canadians cheer on our athletes in their quest for gold at the Winter […]
Scientists at the new Centre for Research on Biomolecular Interactions (CRBI)聽at 91亚色, which officially opens today,聽aim to make discoveries that will impact global health care and the treatment of diseases. Understanding the foundation of key interactions at the molecular level is the research focus at the聽new centre,聽which will be housed聽in聽91亚色's Faculty of Science聽& Engineering. […]