By Valerie Preston and Marshia Akbar The number of foreign students in Canada continues to grow rapidly. Canada was the destination for 7% of the world’s international students in 2017, one of the top three countries that host large shares of international students in comparison to their total higher education populations. The flow of international […]
Professor Traci Warkentin’s interdisciplinary work examines the intersections of experiential learning, place/context, environmental ethics, and human-animal relationships. Her interests in the ethical, educational, and cognitive dimensions of human-animal encounters were inspired by her experiences working at the Vancouver Aquarium during her undergraduate years having pursued a B.Sc. in Honours in Biology from UBC, an M.A. […]
Disability organizations in general “don’t talk about race, and specifically racism and anti-Black racism,” says Sadora Asefaw, who studied the experiences of Black families raising children with developmental disabilities for a master’s degree in environmental studies from York University, and is now working on an independent digital storytelling project about how Black families and families […]
What is the buzz about bees? Why do we need to protect the well-bee-ing of bees? How concerned are you about the health of honeybees and the conservation of wild, native bees? Who is responsible for the protection of wild native bee populations in Canada? These are some of the questions that a team of researchers […]
Multi-jurisdictional, multi-municipality and diverse cities, while especially vulnerable to emerging infectious disease, can play a significant role in the public health response to pandemics like COVID-19. An upcoming webinar, “Why Pandemics, Such as COVID-19, Require a Metropolitan Response,” hosted by York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) and NYU’s Marron Institute of Urban […]
The pandemic has created serious risks for the migrant workers who grow and pick our fruit and vegetables. In Ontario, farm workers were at least 10 times more likely to contract COVID-19 than the overall population, The Fifth Estate has found. Text by Mark Kelley, Karen Wirsig and Virginia Smart Editing by Janet Davison He'd […]
For more than a decade, Professor Sarah Flicker has been engaged with various community stakeholder groups and allied practitioners in health equity research. In line with her combined roles as York Research Chair (Tier2) in Community-Based Participatory Research and Environmental Arts and Justice Coordinator, Flicker actively extends her capacity-bridging approach with urban and rural racialized youth and women in conducting […]
On October 15, 2020, the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) was pleased to host an inaugural EUC case competition for current MES Planning students with help from the MES York Planning Committee (MYPAC). This event brought together Alumni currently working in the planning sector for different cities in the GTA. Anand Balram (Senior […]
Opinion piece written by Rachel Plotkin MES'96 At a virtual news conference last week, Sen. Murray Sinclair and Jane Goodall proposed a bill to ban new captivity of great apes and elephants in Canadian zoos. If Sinclair’s name rings a bell, it’s because he was chief commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada — a spokesperson who […]
What is remarkable about the spate of protests in Hong Kong and Thailand in recent months is their tenacity. Despite state intimidation and violence in both places, demonstrators have kept up their fight, at least until lately. In Thailand, waves of demonstrations, composed mostly of high school and university students, have risked heavy-handed police tactics […]