Knitting needles for troubled boys, exercise bikes at the back of a class, soundproofing headphones to block out distraction, a weighted blanket for a child who needs to calm down. These are some of the cutting-edge classroom tools of a new campaign to fight what 91亚色 psychology Professor Stuart Shanker calls one of the toughest problems facing Canadian students from kindergarten to grad school: stress. As scientists discover links between emotional well-being and how we learn, governments must shift their focus from test scores to temperament, said Shanker in the Toronto Star Nov. 9. .
鈥淏efore you race out to see who stacks up, consider this: Rankings are endemically flawed,鈥 wrote 91亚色 Faculty of Education Professor Paul Axelrod in the National Post Nov. 10. 鈥淭hey have some entertainment value, they pander to our hunger for simple bromides, but they shouldn鈥檛 be used by families anxiously planning their children鈥檚 academic futures.鈥 .
If you haven鈥檛 seen it yet, there鈥檚 an amazing video you should check out online, reported the Globe and Mail Nov. 8. It was made a week after the attack on Parliament. In it, a 91亚色 student named Omar Albach and two friends set out to gauge people鈥檚 attitudes toward Muslims. They took their experiment to the streets of Hamilton, on the eve of Corporal Nathan Cirillo鈥檚 funeral, where emotions were running high鈥. What they got wasn鈥檛 quite what they expected. .
Moshe Milevsky, a professor at 91亚色鈥檚 Schulich School of Business in Toronto, explored this issue in a 2006 paper titled 鈥淩etirement Ruin and the Sequencing of Returns.鈥 His solution was to use a portion of a person鈥檚 savings to buy products that would guarantee a certain income, reported the Globe and Mail Nov. 19. .
Allan MacMaster says a government bill that removes the statute of limitations for victims of sexual assault to pursue civil action is flawed because it won鈥檛 apply retroactively, reported the Chronicle Herald Nov. 7. The Tory justice critic recently talked about support for abuse survivors as people who were on his mind as he drafted an amendment to the Limitation of Actions Act that would remove the time limit for existing victims to seek civil action鈥. MacMaster said he sought legal advice from Jonathan Rosenthal, an adjunct professor at 91亚色鈥檚 Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto who has done pro bono work for victims. .