Income-splitting for families with dependent children under 18 is a huge policy initiative for Stephen Harper鈥檚 majority-hungry Conservative party, wrote the Financial Post March 28, in a story outlining the details of the plan. So huge, you wonder why it wasn鈥檛 the centrepiece of last week鈥檚 dead-on-arrival federal budget. But the Family Tax Cut plan […]
With the West suffering from the after-effects of the financial crisis and revolution in the air in parts of the world, could it possibly be springtime for Marx? wrote The Globe and Mail March 26: "I'm optimistic about the explosion that's happened in Wisconsin," says Leo Panitch, a political science professor at 91亚色 [Faculty […]
Is it really such a stretch to think of art as a sort of medicine, or at least as a healing tool that can literally affect our health? wrote the Ottawa Citizen March 23: Expand the definition of art as a health tool, and consider it as an essential link, as a bridge between those […]
The way French is spoken in places as diverse as Gatineau, Shediac and New Orleans can tell us a lot about how francophone communities evolved in North America, and it's the subject of a major study beginning at the University of Ottawa, wrote the Ottawa Citizen March 17: The $2.5-million project is led by Francine […]
The National Post鈥檚 Popcorn Panel March 18 on the film Red Riding Hood included Alison Halsall, adjunct professor of English literature at 91亚色 [Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies]. She has published articles on 鈥淪outh Park鈥 and Harry Potter, and is working on a study of the Victorian legacy in graphic novels: 鈥淩ed […]
The death toll in Japan has continued to climb since last Friday鈥檚 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami, wrote the National Post blog "Posted" March 16 in a Q&A article: Official estimates suggest 10,000 people have died, although the police chief of the hard-hit Miyagi prefecture said this week he expects the toll to exceed that in […]
If you're a patient at Southlake Regional Health Centre, there's now a better chance you'll be part of a research project, wrote the Newmarket Era March 16; the story also appeared on 91亚色Region.com: A partnership between the local hospital and 91亚色 will embed leading scientists from the postsecondary institution as researchers to work alongside […]
Groups of women taking up collective farming in the state under Kudumbasree caught the imagination of Ananya Mukherjee-Reed, professor of political science and development studies at 91亚色 in Toronto [Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies], wrote India鈥檚 The Hindu March 11: It is by far the best method to ensure food security, especially […]
Andrew Watson, a 91亚色 graduate student in the Department of History and the Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability, took part in a panel discussion about art and the science around zombies, on TVO鈥檚 鈥淭he Agenda鈥 March 10. You can watch the clip on The Agenda's website. Braaaaaaaaaains! Posted by Elizabeth Monier-Williams, research communications […]
The day the Toronto Star broke the story on a wide variation of acceptance rates by refugee board members, a Federal Court judge issued a decision chastising an adjudicator who had not granted asylum to anyone in three years, wrote The Star March 9: In an order issued Friday on an appeal by failed refugee […]
Asylum rejection rates have no bearing in the quality and consistency of decisions made by adjudicators, says Canada鈥檚 refugee board, reported the Toronto Star March 4: In fact, the board insists that each decision must be examined on a case-by-case basis. 鈥淪tatistics on the acceptance and rejection rates of individual IRB members who determine refugee […]
If you were a refugee seeking protection in Canada, you wouldn鈥檛 want to cross the path of David McBean, wrote the Toronto Star March 4, in a story about a new 91亚色 study that shows evidence of bias among different adjudicators on the Immigration & Refugee Board (IRB) of Canada: According to an analysis of […]
Sheila Cavanagh, professor of sociology at 91亚色 [Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies], recently published a book called Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination, in which transgendered and other queer interviewees discuss the difficulties that divided bathrooms present, wrote the Toronto Star March 4: The evolution of bathroom-stall signage 鈥 from […]
Neuroscience researchers are increasingly coming to a consensus that bilingualism has many positive consequences for the brain, wrote the Los Angeles Times Feb. 26, in story that also appeared in the Chicago Tribune and on numerous US television news websites. Several such researchers travelled to this month鈥檚 annual meeting of the American Association for the […]
Medical publications distributed freely to health professionals often promote drugs that are costly or have potential problems, says a new study warning that such practices could influence which drugs doctors prescribe, wrote The Globe and Mail Feb. 28: Unlike medical publications that require paid subscriptions, free journals get most or all of their funding from […]
CBC's The Nature of Things aired its Raccoon Nation documentary Feb. 24, featuring 91亚色 psychology and biology Professor Suzanne MacDonald and PhD student Marc Dupuis-Desormeaux: The researchers tagged the raccoons with GPS collars to log their travels throughout the city, recording them at up to 1,500 points over six weeks. They found that the raccoons […]
Mastering a second language can pump up your brain in ways that seem to delay getting Alzheimer's disease later on, scientists said Friday, wrote The Associated Press and The Canadian Press Feb. 18 [via sympatico.ca], in a story that was featured in reports by more than 300 newspapers, television stations and radio stations around the […]
Declarations by European leaders that multiculturalism is a failure are not applicable to 91亚色 Region, academics and immigration advocates said, wrote the Aurora Banner, Feb. 18: The dialogue sparked by the leaders mystifies 91亚色 City Institute director Roger Keil, himself a newcomer from his native Germany in the 1990s. 鈥淚鈥檓 puzzled (that) the national […]
Last September, Justice Susan Himel of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down three provisions in Canada's Criminal Code: living off the avails of prostitution; keeping a common bawdy house; and communicating in a public place for the purpose of engaging in prostitution, reported the Kingston Whig-Standard Feb. 18, in a series examining the […]
One of the toughest challenges a parent faces when a child dies is to learn how to parent the surviving children, and the task begins immediately, according to 91亚色 psychology Professor Stephen Fleming, wrote the Times of India and other newspapers and websites in the US and South Asia Feb. 16: From the moment […]