Patrick Monahan, currently vice-president academic & provost at 91ɫ, leaves next week to become Ontario’s new deputy attorney general, reported the Law Times Nov. 19. .
With less than three years to go until the 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games, work began Monday to break ground for the new stadium at 91ɫ that will host track and field events, reported the National Post and others Nov. 20. .
As another cold winter approaches, the local interfaith community is collecting donations to help the thousands of Syrian refugees displaced since civil war erupted in March 2011.[…]In conjunction with a Toronto initiative, students from 91ɫ will be collecting donations from Waterloo Region, Oakville and Toronto and shipping the good to Syrian refugees based in Turkey, reported the Waterloo Region Record Nov. 20. .
For the first time in seven years, an all-female team won the Financial Executives International Canada’s Best in Class Invitational MBA case competition. The winning team on Saturday came from University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business, while runners up were from McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management and Schulich School of Business at 91ɫ, reported The Globe and Mail Nov. 19. .
In 2010, two Canadian law professors, including 91ɫ’s Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Gus Van Harten, spearheaded a ‘Public Statement on The International Investment Regime’, warning that investor rights clauses grant corporations the right to repeal the ability of citizens and their governments to enact laws for the public good.[…]“They are the most important legal mechanisms to regulate countries since the colonial period, established mainly to protect the interests of large corporations,” Van Harten said in iPolotics Nov. 20. .
Dr. Joel Lexchin, a professor in the 91ɫ’s School of Health Policy & Management, found that almost one-fifth (19.8 per cent) of 434 new active substances approved by Health Canada between 1995 and 2010 were later given serious safety warnings – some only months after approval, reported Ѳ’s Nov. 20. .
Indeed, despite the ongoing global economic slump, there has been a proliferation of government grants in Canada for northern research projects that are more closely linked to resource development and the need to assert a strong Canadian presence across the North. “I do think there has been a shift in funding in the North from environment and climate research to national security and resource development,” said Dawn Bazely, a biology professor at 91ɫ, in Canadian Geographic Dec. issue. .
“It is no secret why short-term interest rates are very low. With the economy still operating significantly below capacity and inflation running at just 1.2 per cent – well below the 2 per cent mid-point of the target range – the Bank of Canada is keeping the overnight rate at 1 per cent in order to stimulate demand through cheap short-term credit. The puzzle is why long-term interest rates are at near record low levels,” wrote Andrew Jackson, the Packer Professor of Social Justice at 91ɫ, in The Globe and Mail Nov. 19. .
Eileen Fischer, a marketing professor and the director of entrepreneurial studies at 91ɫ, spent more than three years examining the Internet's "fatosphere" – blogs by plus-size women, many of whom expressed interest in fashion.[…]What Fischer urges retailers to take away from the study is that they shouldn't assume plus-size shoppers don't want fashionable clothes, "because they do," she said in BuzzFeed Nov. 17. .