Nokiiwin and York celebrate four years of co-creation with special recognition ceremony
This year's Nokiiwin Day will celebrate a deep, multi-faceted partnership between the Tribal Council and York University’s Glendon College.
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The tightening of Canada’s asylum laws was an inevitability
The first substantive legislative initiative from Mark Carney’s government, Bill C-2, has passed...opinion piece by Michael Barutciski, a professor at York University’s Glendon School of Public and International Affairs, as well as a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
Ontario Continues to Expand Nursing Workforce
The Ontario government is investing over $4.2 million to expand nursing education across the province. These investments will improve access to care by ensuring more nurses are trained and ready to work in communities across Ontario.
UNITAR Global Water Academy and York University launch free online courses
To empower learners world-wide to respond to the global water sustainability crisis, UNITAR Global Water Academy is launching three new courses today – World Environment Day.
Why Canada should apply labour protections to the rental housing sector
Gregor Robertson, Canada’s new housing minister, was likely tapped for the job on the basis of his decade as Vancouver’s mayor, where he introduced zoning changes, incentives for rental construction and the country’s first empty-homes tax. Those moves nudged supply but fell short: housing designed specifically for renting trickled in slowly and the city’s homeless […]
New research finds specific learning strategies can enhance AI model effectiveness in hospitals
If data used to train artificial intelligence models for medical applications, such as hospitals across the Greater Toronto Area, differs from the real-the world data, it could lead to patient harm. A new study
Experimenting with generative AI to kibbitz and futz towards more inclusive futures
What does it mean to think, act and work as a Jewish professor when human freedoms are under siege and authoritarian power gains ground? And how can we draw on our Jewish identities to navigate the sweeping encroachment of new technologies like AI? As communication scholars, colleagues and collaborators, we have spent a lot of […]
York U alumni nominated for 76 Canadian Screen Awards
York University alumni have earned an impressive 76 Canadian Screen Awards nominations this year.
Lack of gender lens in tobacco control research could stymie efforts to help smokers quit, York U researchers say
Ahead of World No Tobacco Day on May 31, York University researchers with Global Strategy Lab (GSL) have published a paper that finds a lack of gender analysis in tobacco control research. The researchers say this means that we could be missing out on important strategies accounting for gendered behaviors that could help smokers quit. The paper, published today in BMJ Tobacco Control, is the first in a series of papers coming out of York University and GSL on gender and smoking.