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Advocates seeking to end youth homelessness need to shift focus away from emergency support and toward prevention and rapid rehousing, 91��ɫ Professor Stephen Gaetz told a Markham Convergence Centre audience, reported the Markham Economist Sun Nov. 30. Suggesting a multi-sector approach is necessary, non-profit organizations, universities, governments and other groups in 91��ɫ Region and Canada must work together to end youth homelessness and move forward with one clear vision, he said at the research forum organized by the United Way of 91��ɫ Region and 91��ɫ. .

Virak Mao is the first winner of a new scholarship created by the Graduate Business Council of 91��ɫ’s Schulich School of Business, reported the North 91��ɫ Mirror Dec. 3. The council represents students in the masters of business administration, masters of public administration and international masters of business administration programs. .

The end-of-term exam crunch is a harrowing time at McGill University’s mental health services. As classes wind down, the clinic gets more than 20 emergency drop-ins a day – four times the usual rate – from students who sometimes report they have not been to class in weeks, they are struggling to get out of bed, they feel like crying all the time….Yet most students turn to a friend or family member before a professional. Knowing that, Leah State, 91��ɫ’s coordinator of health education & promotion, organized a two-week mental health campaign last month and trained 200 student leaders to reach out to their peers, reported the Globe and Mail Dec. 2. .

In the Asia-Pacific, schools from Hong Kong and mainland China fill three of the top five places, while in Canada, the big winners this year are 91��ɫ’s Schulich School of Business and McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management, reported the Korea Herald Dec. 3. .

Man arrested in 91��ɫ sex assault
Toronto police say a 24-year-old man has been charged in a sexual assault inside a building on the 91��ɫ campus, reported the National Post and others Dec. 2. Read full story.

A three-member team from 91��ɫ has been chosen to plan and supervise the collection of racial information on people the Ottawa police pull over in traffic stops, reported the Ottawa Citizen Nov. 30. .

If Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven is any indication, remnants of our infamous national inferiority complex continue to linger, reported the Waterloo Region Record Dec. 1….Curated by lead curator Ian Dejardin, director of Dulwich gallery, in partnership with Katerina Atanassova, chief curator at the McMichael, and Anna Hudson, professor of Canadian art history at 91��ɫ, the exhibition doesn’t chart new critical territory. However, it does shed light on aspects of the work that makes for an instructive experience. .

Debra Pepler, who researches about bullying among vulnerable children at 91��ɫ in Toronto, told Reuters Health that there are some strategies that may help reduce bullying toward autistic children. These include creating “circles of support,” which are groups of children who are educated about a student’s condition and able to provide help and support, reported the Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation and others Dec. 2. .

Then there’s the question of how we define boredom. The trouble is that it has been defined, and discussed, in many different ways, said John D. Eastwood, a professor of psychology at 91��ɫ. After looking over the research literature and putting the idea in front of a focus group of around 100 people, Professor Eastwood and his colleagues defined boredom as an experience of “wanting to, but being unable to engage in satisfying activity,” reported the New 91��ɫ Times Nov. 30. .

The number of clinical trials being carried out in Canada dropped alarmingly from 2008 to 2010 as companies look for cheaper alternatives in countries such as India and China. "They have huge populations and lots of sick people because health care isn't that great to begin with," said Dr. Joel Lexchin, a 91��ɫ professor of health policy & management, in the Hamilton Spectator and others Dec. 1. "You can recruit people a lot quicker; you can get your trial completed in a shorter period of time, and that means saving money." .

Fortunately for Mr. Orsi and his family, they had access to a highly specialized resource just minutes from their door: the 91��ɫ Region District Stroke Centre, located at Mackenzie Health….The centre works with local support service agencies to provide staff training and to offer chronic disease self-management programs. It also recently launched an innovative new cardiovascular rehabilitation program in partnership with University Health Network-Toronto Rehab and the Kinesiology Program at 91��ɫ, reported 91��ɫRegion.com Nov. 30. .

Gender versus religion: Woman refused haircut by Muslim barber highlights problem of colliding rights
Societal changes – some more noticeable than others – tend to spark these competing rights clashes, said Bruce Ryder, a professor at 91��ɫ’s Osgoode Hall Law School, in the National Post Nov. 30….“They seem new as values and social realities shift over time, giving rise to new forms of conflict or new understandings of rights, and accordingly, the legal balance drawn between different rights shifts too.” Read full story.

In a city where the mayor is merely one vote on council, and where Mr. Ford’s conservative agenda has been repeatedly hijacked by a powerful centre-left coalition: Does Toronto need a mayor at all? “The mayor doesn’t have a lot of independent power apart from council, so in some respects, in a weak-mayor system, one could say the city doesn’t really need a mayor — though inevitably there will be some things where you will want at least symbolic leadership, if not actual leadership,” said 91��ɫ political scientist Robert Drummond in the National Post Dec. 1. .

An op-ed in the Toronto Star this month argued that politicians should make way for the future, and encourage telecommuting to save taxpayer money on expensive public-transit proposals, reported �Ѳ������𲹲�’s Dec. 3. (“It’s as if our subway-building, highway-paving, transit-tax-levying politicians are stuck in the 1950s with their transit strategies, instead of looking at 2020 realities,” wrote Paul Barter, professor at 91��ɫ’s Schulich School of Business, and Robert Brehl, a former Star reporter.) .

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