NEWSWIRE

Finally – a subway
to York University

The news conference scheduled for March 6 to announce long-awaited funding for transit improvements in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) got started later than originally planned. It seems that Prime Minister Stephen Harper was stuck in traffic. When the prime minister did arrive at the conference site in Downsview Park in North York, he was quick to announce funding of up to $962 million for public transit infrastructure projects in the GTA. The biggest of those projects is the long-awaited expansion of the Spadina subway line through York’s Keele campus to the Vaughan Corporate Centre.

Lions bow out at national finals
In a rematch of the provincial women’s basketball championship of a week ago, the third-seeded York Lions lost, 79-66, to the fourth-seeded McMaster Marauders in Sunday's consolation final at the Canadian Interuniversity Sports Championship in St. John’s, Nfld.

Track & field Lions bring home five medals
A successful final day of competition at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport Track & Field Championships Saturday netted the York Lions five medals, including a gold by Kristen Matthews in the high jump.

It's a triple-crown for Osgoode's mooting teams
Students from York’s Osgoode Hall Law School won a triple crown of mooting with victories in three of this season’s competitions. In addition to winning the Arnup Cup, Osgoode teams won the Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP Gale Cup Moot and the Wilson Moot.

Student spokesperson opens
new alternate exam testing facility
York students with disabilities who need accommodation to write exams have a new place to write them in comfort after the opening of the University’s new Alternate Testing Facility in Room N148 of the Ross Building, Keele campus.

Students practise table manners at Etiquette Dinner
These days, many professional relationships are forged over dinner. To give students confidence at conducting themselves properly at the table, the Career Centre hosted, the Etiquette Dinner, which was sponsored by the Alumni Office.

Reclaiming Inuit culture with filmmaker Norman Cohn
On March 16, filmmaker Norman Cohn will present Igloolik Isuma and Kunuk Cohn Productions' new feature film, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen. Cohn will present this special screening at 1:30pm in the Price Family Cinema, 102 Accolade East, on the Keele campus.

Student artist creates some food for thought
The Akasa Art Gallery in the Student Centre will be hosting a University-wide food and art show this week. The show, titled Free Soup, was created by visual arts student Sarah Helen Epp and offers a visual representation of the activity of Food 4 Thought, York’s student food bank.

Hébert writes her first book
National political affairs columnist and Glendon alumna Chantal Hébert (BA ’76) has just launched her first book, French Kiss: Stephen Harper's Blind Date with Quebec. French Kiss couldn't have hit the bookstores at a more auspicious time. It examines the convergence of Charest's Quebec provincial Liberals and Harper's federal Conservatives.

York-led new media consortium gets to work
The future of Canada is about to change, with new media, film and entertainment replacing the natural resource sector and the automobile industry as economic drivers in the nation’s economy. That sentiment is shared by the partners in the newly formed Consortium on New Media, Creative and Entertainment R&D in the Toronto Region.

York establishes a new Chair in women's mental health
Mental health and well-being in low income, immigrant and refugee women, teenage girls and female nurses will be among the areas of focus of a new Chair in Women's Mental Health Research at York University.

Sandwich a palette of sounds into your day
When the clock strikes 12:30pm on weekdays, something magical happens in the Tribute Communities Recital Hall in the Accolade East Building. On select days Monday through Friday, students, faculty and guest artists of the Department of Music serve up free 50-minute concerts to the York community.

Professor seeks to empower Nigerian communities
Atkinson Professor Uzo Anucha is heading a $1-million international project to help improve the well-being of Nigerian women by strengthening social work education and practice, contributing directly to women's empowerment and gender equality in Nigerian communities.

Doris Anderson was a York governor
and honorary degree recipient
Doris Anderson, a ground-breaking Canadian journalist and editor, died March 2 at 85 following a battle with pulmonary fibrosis. A former Chatelaine magazine editor, Anderson was also well-known as a feminist, author and fierce advocate for women’s rights.