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With the Leafs out of the playoff picture, the Raptors have a golden opportunity to use their post-season run to forge a fan base loyal enough to survive defeat – and experts say the team needs to take advantage. “The Maple Leafs will always be No. 1 [in Toronto sports],” said Vijay Setlur, who teaches sports marketing at 91��ɫ’s Schulich School of Business, in the Toronto Star April 9. “What the playoffs will do essentially is mobilize and galvanize the support of the fans heading into a very critical time for the franchise as it embarks on its 20th season.” .

Councillors were seriously considering gambling on bringing a casino to Vaughan’s emerging downtown at about this time last year. Now, they’re putting their minds to convincing 91��ɫ to build a satellite campus in the same area, reported the Vaughan Citizen April 9. .

The Oakville Soccer Club announced Wednesday that it has added former Toronto Maple Leafs psychologist Paul Dennis to its technical staff, reported the Oakville Beaver April 9. . . .Dennis is currently a professor lecturing in sports psychology at 91��ɫ, where he is also a high performance coach to the Lions’ varsity teams. .

Veteran King Township Councillor Linda Pabst defended her longtime practice of heading south each winter for a 2-1/2-month vacation while council is still in session. . . . 91��ɫ Professor of political science Robert MacDermid, who specializes in municipal government, believes there are issues with councillors who are absent for extended periods from the council table. “It seems to me that this councillor’s absences threaten the important function of representation,” said MacDermid in the King Connection April 9. .

“I’m always happy to see a discussion about women’s (lack of) representation among ‘experts’ in the media,” wrote 91��ɫ PhD candidate Melonie Fullick in University Affairs April 9. “But as Kirstine Stewart of Twitter Canada commented: ‘[I] was hopeful. Then I read the blog.’ In it, [Steve] Paikin takes an opportunity that could have been used to ask deeper questions about the gendered nature of expertise (for example) – and turns it into a throw-up-your-hands, stereotype-reinforcing missive on the ‘excuses’ women make for not wanting to heed the call and appear on a TV show.” .

The Law Society of Upper Canada will debate Thursday whether to accredit a controversial B.C. law school that bans gay sexual intimacy, reported the Toronto Star April 9. . . . The faculties of 91��ɫ’s Osgoode Hall Law School, Queen’s University’s Faculty of Law and the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Common Law have made submissions that Trinity Western’s covenant discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation. .

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