Where NASA sent the 899-kilogram Curiosity, the team led by Ben Quine of 91亚色 wants to send its own rover weighing only six kg, reported the Ottawa Citizen Nov. 4鈥. The project is called Northern Light and Quine, who teaches space engineering as part of 91亚色鈥檚 large space program, thinks he could pull it off for $1.1 million (to build it all) and as much as $5 million to hitch a ride on someone else鈥檚 launch. .
The ongoing judicial investigation into the conduct of Justice Lori Douglas may be a harbinger of things to come, said Lorne Sossin, dean of 91亚色鈥檚 Osgoode Hall Law School. 鈥淲e are definitely going to see more of this issue in Canada,鈥 said Sossin in the Lawyers Weekly鈥檚 Nov. 7 issue. 鈥淲e now have a group of people largely appointed in their 50s and 60s who I think it is fair to say are not active in social media. In a very short number of years that will reverse and it will become the norm, and the exceptions will be judges not engaged in social media.鈥 .
Moshe Milevsky, a finance professor at 91亚色鈥檚 Schulich School of Business, says, 鈥淢ost of this by definition is unmodellable. All we can really do is have contingencies in place. But if a huge disaster hits, their reserves aren鈥檛 going to be enough.鈥 In other words, there is no absolute margin of safety, barring insurance, reported Advisor.ca Nov. 3. Here, Milevsky argues, people may have to draw on their social capital and turn to friends and family to make up shortfalls. .
Osgoode Hall Law School鈥檚 125th anniversary holds special significance for its dean, reported the Lawyers Weekly Oct. 31. Lorne Sossin, who is also a professor in the Faculty, was a first-year student at the school 25 years ago and is now in his fifth year as its dean. .