When Kabeta Gemechis Kedir arrived in Canada from Ethiopia, he brought with him more than a determination to succeed, he brought a dream. He had already completed three years of university studies and was determined to finish the degree he had started back home, this time in Canada. Having arrived in Canada without any clear […]
York University Professor joins Jeyan Jeganathan, host of TVO Today's The Rundown, in discussing the number, scale and biggest environmental concerns of AI data centres, as well as if the public supports them.
Whether you call it soccer, football, le football, fútbol, futebol, fudbal, fußball, toba, nogomet or something else, it is the most global of sports, with FIFA having more member associations than the United Nations has member states. The largest and least affordable World Cup to date, FIFA World Cup 2026 is marred with its fair share of controversies. Still, for billions of people across the globe, it is the beautiful game and the world will be watching.
On Friday June 12, as York University students don caps and gowns to attend their graduation ceremonies at the university’s Keele Campus, former York Lions Men’s Soccer midfielder Niko Sigur will be going through a different rite-of-passage, putting on cleats and the #23 jersey as he prepares for his FIFA World Cup debut for Team Canada.
A team led by York University researchers has discovered the fastest wind near a supermassive black hole ever found at ultraviolet wavelengths, driven by the disc of matter, or quasar, surrounding the black hole. “This quasar has a black hole of 1.7 billion times the mass of the Sun. That’s typical. What’s not typical is that it has gas moving towards us at 30 per cent of the speed of light,” says York Professor Patrick Hall of the Faculty of Science.
York University and King Township signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) designed to further enhance their collaboration, including economic growth initiatives and community engagement.
Birthed from a 1969 uprising as a response to police violence at a New York City dive bar called the Stonewall Inn, Pride has grown into a global movement, with Toronto-area celebrations among the largest in the world. Drawing on years of community-engaged research and large-scale data sets, York University researchers are available to talk to media about historical struggles and current issues facing those in 2SLGBTQIA+ communities today.
