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The story of how they both got there is filled with unexpected turns and life lessons, the Star said. Wendela was a self-proclaimed "artsy" with a long background in the fine arts. She taught architecture and art history part-time at Glendon for 10 years while her three children were young. After 15 years in the family business (Cottage Life magazine), Wendela started at Osgoode in the fall of 2003 as a "mature" student. While many children follow their parents into the legal profession, it's unusual to have two generations embarking on their careers together, says Osgoode Professor Alan Young, who taught criminal law and procedure to both Roberts. Their arrival shows how much the school and the profession have changed, he said. When Young was at law school in the late 1970s, his class was "almost exclusively 20-something white males." The 1980s brought an increase in visible minorities, followed by mature students, defined as 30 and over. Now about 30 people, or 10 per cent of Osgoode's first- Marriage for McAdams? Hold your horses, guys, it’s a movie According to McAdams, an actor has yet to sign on for the role of the wife. The 29-year old star of the holiday dramedy The Family Stone, released this week on DVD, praised her Oscar-winning co-star and her gifted director. "I think he (Cooper) is one of the better actors working and Ira Sachs is a great director," said McAdams. Cooper won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Adaptation. Marriage is set to begin filming in July "somewhere in Canada," says McAdams. Scholar disputes 'facts' in The Da Vinci Code The Gnostic Gospel of Thomas could have been written earlier than the Gospel of Mark, which is considered to be the earliest of the Gospels in the New Testament, said Tony Chartrand-Burke, a York humanities professor who teaches early Christian texts and non-canonical literature. So it's possible the Gospel of Thomas is older than some canonical Gospels, but scholars just don't know, he said. But because of their content, the Gnostic Gospels quoted in The Da Vinci Code are believed to have been written later than New Testament Gospels, Chartrand-Burke said. Gospels aren't necessarily historical records, he added. "Facts often take a back seat to getting a message across." Gospels might address history, but early Christians often used stories to spread theology, he said. At one point in The Da Vinci Code, Teabing introduces Sophie Neveu, the heroine, to the Gospel of Mary Magdalene. (In truth, it's just called The Gospel of Mary, noted the Record.) Astonished, Neveu says she didn't realize there was a gospel written in Mary Magdalene's own words. But gospels aren't necessarily written by the person named in the title, Chartrand-Burke said. Teabing finds a passage in the Gnostic Gospel of Philip, which calls Mary Magdalene the "companion" of Jesus. It's absolute proof, Teabing says, that Jesus married Mary Magdalene because in biblical times the word companion literally meant spouse. Again, not true, Chartrand-Burke said. Authors in the biblical era use the word companion to mean spouse but also to describe someone who was just a friend, Chartrand-Burke said. Rather than promoting marriage, Burke said, Gnostic texts favour asceticism because Gnostics believed the world is an evil place and having children would just perpetuate the world. And people today who are attracted to gender-equal verses in Gnostic texts ignore much of the gospels' "weird" theology, Chartrand-Burke said. NFL’s Ravens crow over York football star Foley, a 6-foot-2, 255-pound first-round pick by the BC Lions in this year's CFL draft, was among 12 undrafted NFL rookies and 10 Baltimore draft picks at the Ravens' training centre in Owings Mills, Md. "The NFL is the highest level, so obviously that's where you want to be – I want to be here first and foremost, that's always been my dream," Foley said from Baltimore, where he is staying until the Ravens' main training camp begins in mid-July. Foley impressed Ravens defensive coordinator Rex Ryan with his play at the rookie training camp. "I think Ricky came in here determined to make the most of his time and prove what he can do. We liked the way he ran to the ball, his quickness and the initial instincts he possesses on the field," Ryan said. Ryan said the Ravens recognized that Foley was used to a different style of play and competition than those rookies who came from major American university programs. "But he was athletic enough to be drafted fourth overall in the CFL. The kid definitely has something to him. He can run and he really likes to play. He also has got a great head on his shoulders. "Right now he's raw, but the talent is there and we are going to give him an opportunity to show us what he can be." York football coach Tom Gretes believes his former star player has what it takes to make the final cut. "He can hold his own with anybody. If anyone can do it, it's Ricky Foley – he's got the desire, the determination, the ability." Bridging program at York celebrates its 25th anniversary Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the program offers a pre-university course to those who have, for various reasons ranging from gender and race to economic and family constraints, typically never begun postsecondary studies, the Star said. "It sparked so much enthusiasm in me," said McNally, who took the women's studies course at night in 1999. "Higher education went from something I'd never seen myself getting to something that was now attainable. "It was what I needed to send me in the right direction." Valerie Thomas, 42, always wanted and expected to go to university. The daughter of two school teachers, she completed high school and two years of college and was teaching in a convent in her native Grenada before coming to Canada in 1983, the Star said. But married, raising two children and trying to make ends meet, life always seemed "just too hectic to schedule education in there," said Thomas. So, it was not until she saw a newspaper advertisement for York's bridging program in 1998 that she decided to go back to school. "It stirred up my latent ambition," said Thomas, who completed the bridging course, got into York and in 2002 graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Arts in women's studies and communication studies.
Student digs in for farmers Wan's work in Africa this summer is a result of York's creation of the East African Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Enterprise earlier this year. The centre works in collaboration with the Dar es Salaam University in Tanzania, CARE Canada and CARE Tanzania. Film student helped make festival entry on vandalism in Kenora "The experience that you got from [making the film] was good," he said. It wasn't the spring board that got him into thinking about film as a career but he said it helped give him a better idea of what a working crew goes through. The students spent some long days filming going late into the night at some points, he said. Working like this for a week made for some long days, but it was worth it said Burgelis. Over his year in university he's had the opportunity to film and likes it a lot. He is returning in the fall to continue his education. Theatre graduate learns to ‘smoke up’ in local production The scene where Jenny tries marijuana for the first time is, according to insiders, one of the funniest moments in the play. "It's just so fun to do, we cracked up," said Pryce, who surveyed the cast for ideas to best represent the results of a first attempt at smoking pot. Not knowing how didn't hold her back – "you don't have to plan a murder to play Lady Macbeth," she joked. Pryce, who graduated with a bachelor of fine arts in theatre performance from York University, and went the professional route for a few years, likens the play’s co-author Stephen Sondheim to the Shakespeare of musical theatre because of the script's multiple layers of meaning. Reviewer says York MFA’s sculpture augurs well for future career There are a couple of minor flaws – or at least weak-points – in Moore's logic here. It makes more sense to use the materials of memorial (i.e. marble) to make dead-tech things – like tape cassettes, and less sense to memorialize things that are still all too present, such as cellphones and batteries. But, on the other hand, making big computer keys out of marble seems to work just fine – probably because, if you scale them up, they look like nothing else except sculpture. Anyhow, it's a smart show, and augurs well for a brilliant career.
The one thing that really ticks off Findlay is "dishonesty, especially in politics," the Liberal leadership candidate told The Sudbury Star with no hesitation May 26. The 46 -year -old lawyer, businesswoman and entrepreneur rolled through Sudbury in her barn -red campaign mobile home on her way across the country. Her logo? "It's time." Time for what? Time for renewal in the Liberal party, time to heal the party's internal divisions, time to accentuate the party's positive economic, environmental and foreign policy record over the past decade and maybe even time for a female to lead the party and become the next prime minister, Hall Findlay rattles off.
"We will be working with AIDS orphans outside of Nairobi," said Norman at the show. They will spend five days at Youth With a Mission's base of operations at Athi River to help with relief work and infrastructure development, and then go to the Ndalani home to help a group called the Mulli Children's Family, named after the founder, Charles Mulli, a successful Kenyan businessman turned Christian philanthropist. "He adopts children whose parents died from AIDS," said Norman. "He educates them, feeds them. He has helped 1,100 kids since the 1990s, and there are over 800 kids under his care right now." Glendon student’s band taking off Birds of Wales - so named because Ross is Welsh and according to Ross, "I grew up with a cockatoo, I've always had a thing for birds" - is now comprised of Ross on guitar and lead vocals, Paul Barry on drums, Mike Caputo on lead guitar, Scott Christian on piano and Morgan Smith on bass. The first album was released nationwide a month ago and has already sold 1,000 copies, with the band taking all the profits as an independent, Ross noted. Ross is confident his music career will ultimately be termed a success. "It will work out because...my criteria for success is not based on fame. As long as I keep maturing as a songwriter then I'm happy," he said. But there is life after music, Ross knows. He hopes to eventually finish his degree and then attend graduate school in the field of "international development management" and work in the organizational aspect of relief work in developing countries.
"My story can read like a soap opera," said Kelita, who studied at York in the early '80s. "I've had a very tragic past. Shortly after my father's death, I sat down at the piano and wrote my first song." Kelita fell into drug and alcohol abuse as her country singing career was taking off. It wasn't until a car accident that Kelita realized she had a second chance at life. Since then, she has re-launched her career as a singer and performer with her own ministry, teaching women to have faith and spreading the word of God. "I think what sets me apart from other women singers is that I really love what I do, it's fun for me. As far as the [humourous]] characters [she portrays in her stage act], I studied theatre at York University. Sometimes with our stressful lives, we just need a laugh. I think comedy is a real icebreaker." Alumnus Matt Dusk is feeling pretty good these days "It's a total different mindset for me, headspace-wise," Dusk declared yesterday from Niagara Falls , where he was 24 hours from kicking off a tour with a performance at the Fallsview Casino. "I'm in a really good mood right now in terms of this last year. I kind of had my three years of soaking my sorrows, so I said, 'Screw it! Let's go drink and have fun.'" A sudden, unexpected split by his girlfriend while he was recording Two Shots and a few tragic deaths in his inner circle had set Dusk on a depressing spiral. It wasn't until last year that things improved, the big band singer admits. "I was finally over everything." "Music helped me out," adds Dusk. "I could only write really bad, depressing stuff and everyone knew that, so they all wrote depressing ballads. "But now it's on the up-and-up, so I'm really happy."
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After joining Osgoode Hall Law School at age 25, she is now not only a star professor but also a meticulous researcher into issues of securities regulation and public capital markets governance. Puri admits that she "takes on a lot," including articles, books and committee work such as helping organize Toronto's annual Brazilian Ball. But she finds it hard to say no when a particular project resonates with her. "The projects I'm working on right now are extremely significant, not in a narrow sense to issuers and investors, but in the broader sense," she says. "I feel these issues are extremely important in the context of our entire Canadian society, in fact."
Jordan Banks (LLB ‘94) abandoned his dream job as legal counsel to the National Hockey League Players' Association to join eBay Canada as employee No. 2. Now, as managing director of the Canadian operation, Banks has overall responsibility for the ongoing development of eBay.ca, the popular Internet shopping site. A graduate of the University of Western Ontario and York’s Osgoode Hall Law School, Banks practised corporate finance law at Goodman, Phillips & Vineberg before he was lured away to the NHLPA to head up its licensing and international business operations. Activists try new route for allegations against cops
Renowned York mystery writer keeps himself in suspense When Robinson begins a book, he doesn't know how it's going to end, the Standard said. He'll pick up different threads of the plot as he goes along, but does not map it all out before he begins. "A lot of it is instinct as I move along through the story. I don't usually have a vision," he said. "When I'm finished and one of the characters has presented himself as the obvious killer, I go back and plant little clues. I use psychology and character, things he says or doesn't say. That's done in the revision stage. I'm following my instinct when I'm writing." All students would benefit if cost of textbooks was fully deductible Mature students, a majority of whom attend part-time, do not get a comparable break. Using the same criteria as the full-time students, but with the $20 per month allowance, part-time and mature students would only see a tax reduction of around $24. What would really be helpful to all students is to have textbooks and other required reading materials considered "tools of the trade" so to speak and be fully deductible. Helpful too, would be a removal of the GST altogether from textbooks and a 100 per cent tax credit for public transit fares. Osgoode student joins Native protest in Caledonia Conference at York looks at disability rights Lucy Costa, a student in the Faculty of Arts and co-founder of the Mad Students Society, a post-secondary group formed around issues facing students who have experienced the psychiatric system, will talk about shaping curricula and creating bridges for younger mad students. "Despite mainstream cultural discussions and highly funded ad campaigns on the need to obliterate the stigma of mental illness, organizational policies perpetuate systemic discrimination," Costa said. "For example, the policies of postsecondary institutions limit the ability of faculty to safely disclose their own similar experiences to their students, thereby leaving students with an absence of people in positions of authority to whom they can turn for support." Sutherland rides a winning combo Sutherland won Sovereign Awards in 2001 and 2002 while riding at Woodbine, but elected shortly afterward to move her tack to New York, in part because of rampant male chauvinism – and an assault – she said she endured in the Toronto track's jockey's room. Her difficulties with her male counterparts at Woodbine were the subject of a story in the New York Times last year, but she first spoke of them publicly in a major profile in the Free Press in December 2002. "It was sexual harassment, plain and simple," Sutherland said. "I'd love to tell the whole world what it's like to be a woman in racing, but I've got to work with these guys again next year."
Bowman applauds pop music studies in high school That isn't to say that pop and rock should take precedence over other forms of music. But popular genres should have their place too, he said. The director of York University's Graduate Program in Ethnomusicology & Musicology said that teaching popular music studies in high schools "should have been done years ago. But it has to be done well." Stratus’s career breaks out She grew up a tom boy, the eldest child in a family of three girls in Richmond Hill, just north of Toronto. Her father worked in real estate and her mother helped at the local school with special-needs children. Stratus, whose real name is Trisha Stratigias, headed off to York University to study kinesiology and biology with plans to enter medical school. But in 1997, a teachers' strike caused her to look for something to fill the time. Muscle Magazine International had approached her to do a photography shoot, and, on a whim, she said yes. That shoot resulted in a cover, and her career as a fitness model was born. She quit university – she had completed her third year – and travelled the world, appearing in various fitness magazines, often on the cover. Then – again on a lark – she appeared on "Off-the-Record", a TV sports show, when they happened to be featuring wrestling. That's when the Internet buzz began, she explains. "People were saying this fitness model was going to be on WWE soon, and the rumours were completely false!"
Producer Nann formulates the concert around what she calls circles. The Writers' Circle included readings by poets Stan Dragland, Souvankham Thammavongsa and Ondaatje. The Songwriters' Circle showcased music by Andrew Cash, Kathleen Edwards, Josh Finlayson, Andy Maize and Suzie Ungerleider. Each half of the program includes two major dance works.
This time, the piece includes the personal stories of both Chase and Nann, and how they entwine together. The starting point is that they went to the same Vancouver school, a grade apart, when they were young. There are other similarities. They both went on to York University for dance, and they both have troubled brothers. Osgoode alumna called to the bar and the barbell McGerrigle might look more like a gymnast than a weightlifter but that's not surprising because she is, in fact, a former gymnast who competed at the provincial level in her native British Columbia until the age of 16. That's when her interest in weightlifting started. McGerrigle said she realized that she would not make the Canadian Olympic team in gymnastics. "A weightlifting coach came to me and said women's weightlifting was going into the Olympics," she said. "My dream was to go to the Olympics." She moved to Ontario because her then coach Peter Macdonald came here, and also to attend school. While she was pursuing her sport, she also chased her other dream of a law career. She graduated from the University of Toronto, Mississauga campus, went to law school at York’s Osgoode Hall Law School and articled at Lawrence, Lawrence Stevenson LLP before being hired by the firm about two years ago. Visual artist from Kenora area studies at York Volunteer power earns teen tuition scholarship to York "I still don't think about it," said Brandi, who will be attending the Schulich School of Business at York University in North York this September. The reality of it only sank in just this past weekend when a ceremony for the scholarship award winners was held at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel with keynote speaker Justin Trudeau. Despite growing up in a single-parent home in subsidized housing, Brandi has overcome a number of barriers that many youths living in social housing face daily. But instead of just complaining about his situation, Brandi took action. York theatre student On the Rise It also acted as an act-off that began with close to 200 young performers earlier this month and ended with one winner, said the Star. Before the victor was appointed, though, notable actors, casting agents, agents, producers and directors gathered in their respective group panels to answer questions flung at them by the crowd of eager aspiring superstars of all ages. The finalists, ranging in age from 9 to 24, performed scenes from various films while being scored by the judges and scrutinized by their peers until finally David Schokking, a 22-year-old student in York University's theatre program, was named On The Rise Champion of 2006. Not all 30-somethings are rich and worry free, says Middleton Osgoode graduate juggled two jobs and three kids to study The single mother of four – one of whom died not long after birth – was to be honoured at the weekend, along with two other York-connected persons – Canadian jazz icon and former York chancellor Oscar Peterson, and Osgoode alumnus and Ontario Chief Justice Roy McMurtry (LLB ‘58) – at the African Canadian Achievement Awards. She was to be presented with the Matilda Van Cooten Award for Excellence in Single Parenting. "I've been to these awards before and, when they phoned me to say I'd be receiving one, I was very excited," Best said. "I think being a parent is the most difficult job. It's very hard work." After attending Michigan’s Wayne State University for a few years – while holding a full -time job – Best took a break from school to start a family in Toronto. She soon began taking classes part -time at the University of Toronto. Then in 1992 she was accepted to Osgoode Hall Law School. "It was difficult but at the same time, workable.... For the first year I was able to walk my daughter to school in the morning, go to school, and come back home to be there for her when she got back from school before going to work that night," Best said. "And the boys were older so they didn't need as much attention from me." Best, 47, was called to the bar in 1997 and has developed a successful practice, mainly involving real estate and family law.
"There's a great many physical activities that are involved in fine arts," Silver said. "The obvious ones would be dance; some forms of theatre would involve a great deal of physical activity; some forms of music involve a great deal of physical activity," said Silver who signed an online petition along with over 8,000 Canadian parents. "A healthy mind in a healthy body," Silver said, "and so the minister has started something with respect to the impact on the body and I hope that he will expand his interest in our young people and future society to look at the things that help build their minds as well as their bodies." Former York student called the ‘best trader on Bay Street’ Wekerle is a vice -chairman and co -head of trading at GMP Capital Trust, a brokerage that caters to corporate clients and focuses on growth companies, particularly in the resource sector. His primary job is to help large investors obtain or unload large blocks of stock in these companies, either by bringing a buyer and seller together, or, if need be, by using "You saw the movie Amadeus?" asked York benefactor Seymour Schulich (left) , the wealthy investor and philanthropist. "To me, he's the character in that movie, Mozart. He's a prodigy. I've never seen a guy who can keep more deals in his head than that guy. I'm not even close. He must have somewhere between 25 and 50 deals in his head at any given time. He's the best I know." Oh, and one other thing, Schulich adds. "He's got the balls of a cat burglar." Unsure what he wanted to do when he graduated from high school, Wekerle enrolled as an economics major in York’s Faculty of Arts [where he took courses part-time over the next five years from 1982-1987]. During that time a friend helped him get a job on the trading floor of the Toronto Stock Exchange. Wekerle made approximately $4 million in bonuses last year and about $3 million the year before (the GMP senior partners are only paid bonuses, not salaries). Yet this is chump change compared with the equity he has built up in the firm: more than $90 million worth, going by the company's unit price in early May. Graduate’s film shows experiences of African immigrant God's Own Country is 43 minutes that took a year and half to make. "This movie is the tale of a young African who comes to North America searching for a better life and going through the trials and tribulations," said Agbayewa, who lives in Toronto and works at a non -profit immigration centre. No matter where the immigrants come from, it's never quite what they expect, he said. "I wanted to tell a story that reflected that," said the man who came to Winnipeg with his family from Nigeria when he was five. "I wrote the script after hearing story after story," said Agbayewa, who has a bachelors degree in political science from York and a masters in communication from Concordia but nary a film course to his credit. "I also directed, produced it and acted in it," he said. Schulich graduate is one of 10 ‘gutsy guys’ waiting in the dating hot seats
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Until a few years ago, Ricky Foley had never played on a football team. Now, the York University linebacker has a shot at making it in the NFL, reported the Toronto Star May 25. Foley, 25, has signed a free-agent contract with the Baltimore Ravens after being invited to the team's two-day training camp earlier this month.
Anyone skeptical that a person's life can change with one night-school course should meet Amy McNally (left) (BA ‘04), reported the Toronto Star May 11. Seven years ago, she was battling clinical depression after a decade of family turmoil. Having struggled through high school, she worked as a nanny, convinced that domestic help was her only employment opportunity. McNally, 32, holds one bachelor degree in sociology from York’s Atkinson Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies, will complete her second BA in social work this summer, and is a supervisor at a mental health facility. She's to begin studies on her master's degree in social work at York next fall. McNally is one of about 2,000 women to complete the bridging program for women at York.
Film’s subject founded York’s graduate program in film studies
Now his daughter, York graduate Nina Beveridge (right) (BA '81 Glendon), in her own documentary titled 
Half a world away, Orleans, Ont., native Alice Wan (right, third from left) is helping cotton farmers appreciate the benefits of commercialization, reported the Ottawa Sun May 11. The 26-year-old graduate student in York’s Faculty of Environmental Studies is one of three Canadian students who hopped a plane for Africa last week, where they will spend the summer teaching the world's poorest about good living practices. It's all part of a program sponsored by CARE Canada, through its newest division, CARE Enterprise Partners (CEP).
About a year ago Grade 12 students in Beaver Brae's drama class worked together on a film project funded by the Manitoba Theatre for Young People (MTYP) to create more awareness about vandalism in the community, reported the Kenora Daily Miner & News May 6. The students chose to feature vandalism in their documentary because it’s a topical issue in Kenora. York student Dan Burgelis (right) was part of the class and was back from university on the summer break. He enjoyed film before they created this project and has since been a part-time student in the Film & Video Program in York’s Faculty of Fine Arts.
I wouldn't normally write about a show like this one – an MFA thesis exhibition for York University – unless, like this one, it was really a knockout, wrote reviewer Gary Michael Dault, in The Globe and Mail April 29 of an exhibit that closed that day at the Peak Gallery in Toronto. "This must have really blown your supervisors over," I suggested last week to Laura Moore, the young artist responsible for this wry but powerful collection of guileful stone carvings. "Yeah," said Moore, who is a cool customer for one so young, "they liked it all right." I bet. The exhibition is fresh and exhilarating in a couple of ways at once. First, nobody much carves any more. Second, when they do, it tends to be rearward, art-historical stuff that gets carved (portrait busts or silky-smooth, post-Henry Moore abstractions and so on). But Laura Moore carves technological gizmos, the techno-chachkas of our times – a cellphone, an analog tape, a computer mouse, a USB and a digital voice recorder – all out of soapstone. And AA batteries and a nine-volt battery carved from marble. And big, silky-soft floor sculptures, which look formally anonymous until you realize they are actually marble computer keys wrought large (HOME, RETURN, ESC, END and ENTER).
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Schulich instructor will travel with musicians on mission to Africa
self-titled work of six tracks. He formed a temporary band with "two other chaps from Burnaby" to get him used to performing in front of people. Then, last August he headed to Toronto, home of major record label headquarters, where he formed a new band and pursued his studies in political science and history.
Country singer credits her stage show to theatre studies at York
You might be wondering about the big difference between jazz crooner Matt Dusk's (BFA '02) first album Two Shots and his about-to-be- released second effort, Back in Town, wrote The Record (Kitchener, Cambridge and Waterloo) May 27. Whereas the aforementioned Two Shots contained plenty of melancholy songs because of some personal upheaval Dusk was experiencing at the time, Back in Town has two shots of happy, no shots of sad.
York graduate’s crystal clear idea shines in Web market
It was on a family trip back to her parents' homeland during summer holidays that Poonam Puri (right) , law professor in York’s Osgoode Hall Law School, discovered her calling in law. She'd asked a favourite professor whether she could bring him anything from India. "You know, a book, or some kind of food he liked," she recalls. "And he said, 'Yeah, sure, bring me back a couple of murder cases from the turn of the century, involving not only law but politics, the British, and I'll see if I can put together a book.'" Puri, already a high achieving second-year student, went to work in the Indian Law Institute and the Supreme Court Library in Delhi. By getting involved in a research project, she says, "I was able to see how you can take an important public policy issue, or legal issue, work it through the process of research and come to recommendations that are useful and meaningful, taken up by policy-makers and regulators, and moved forward."
It was while toiling in the legal and business affairs department of Sony Music Canada that York graduate Roma Khanna (left) (MBA ‘01) got caught up in the revolution. German engineering had created a way to compress enormous amounts of audio data into readily transferable computer files. That might have made MP3 sound like a police technology, but young people had other things in mind. And so did Khanna. The Toronto-raised daughter of parents who came from India in 1965, Khanna brought a daunting level of drive to the table, with law degrees in Canada and the US to complement her MBA from York's Schulich School of Business. Fret about having to watch Stanley Kubrick films on a cellphone and she gets impatient. "The content needs to adapt for the media," says Khanna, named last year by Variety and The Hollywood Reporter as one of the top female executives to watch in the entertainment industry. "You make content mobile [if] there's something about it that's better mobile."
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Edward Fenner (left) , president of the York University Mature Students Organization, wrote in a letter to the Toronto Star May 4: While the Conservative government's exemption from tax on post-secondary scholarships, fellowships and bursaries is welcome news, it has fallen far short with regard to textbook tax credits. True, textbooks were not previously given a tax credit status. However, the disappointingly low amounts allocated for textbooks are grossly inadequate to the reality of textbook and other reading material costs. Per the government's example of a $520 tax credit for the year, a full-time student would have a tax reduction of $80 – not a lot – especially when $520 is an average to low amount for everyday students. Those in medical, law, or business programs often have textbook costs that are double that amount.
Winnipeg-born jockey and York alumna Chantal Sutherland (right) (BA ‘99) is all over the news stands these days. But it's her photogenic good looks rather than her riding ability that is attracting most of the attention, reported the Winnipeg Free Press May 12. The 30-year-old rider and part-time model was the subject of a four-page spread in the April edition of Vogue magazine. It included a shot of her riding a horse at Florida's Gulfstream Park wearing nothing but her boots and underwear. She was also recently featured in People magazine's World's Most Beautiful People issue, right alongside the likes of actresses Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman. The one-page feature included a provocative photo of Sutherland clad in riding pants and a sports bra, pulling on her boots. She is currently riding at Belmont Park just outside New York City, but is best known on this side of the border as a two-time Sovereign Award winner as Canada's top apprentice jockey.
What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, in the darkened corner of a CTV studio, is a Big Television Personality in the making, reported The Globe and Mail May 20. Trish Stratus, a former kinesiology student in York’s Faculty of Science & Engineering and an international Canadian-born star from World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)who will host this year's Walk of Fame ceremonies in Toronto on June 4 – her big mainstream TV break-out moment – has got everything that job requires.
The Whole Shebang 2006 dance show features York talent
poet/novelist and Glendon English professor Michael Ondaatje (left) collaborated on Evocative language, Dance Imagery at the Vancouver Playhouse, reported The Globe and Mail May 20. Together they created two pieces which used Ondaatje's text as a sound-score for Nann's movement. The grown-up offspring off this collaboration features dance, songs, literary readings and film – in other words, a celebration of the arts.
Choreographer/dancer Sarah Chase (left) conceived and directed A Certain Braided History, performed to a cinematic live guitar score by Elkas. The piece, developed jointly by Chase and Nann, features Chase's signature voice to movement motif. The choreographer has made an international reputation for herself telling personal stories accented by droll physicality.
Miel McGerrigle (left) (LLB ‘03) is a Brampton lawyer who has not only been called to the bar– but to the barbells, reported the Brampton Guardian May 21. By day, a real estate specialist with Lawrence, Lawrence Stevenson LLP in downtown Brampton, McGerrigle is also one of Canada's top female weightlifters. Earlier this year she won a bronze medal in the 63 kilograms division at the Commonwealth Games in Australia, but she is also hoping for even more success as she trains to try and earn a spot at the Beijing Olympics. The combination of weightlifting and the practice of law is not common. McGerrigle can safely say she is the only lawyer in Canada's Olympic Weightlifting Federation. In fact, working in a high-pressure field combined with the demands of training at a world-class level in any sport is tough to do.
Physically demanding kids’ arts activities
GMP's own money to help someone get out of a position. On Bay Street he's considered the top trader in the business.
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