Category Listing
Global report shows most deaf people with cochlear implants satisfied, but more follow-up supports needed
A global survey put out by York University’s Faculty of Education and the Cochlear Implant International Community of Action (CIICA), a user advocacy organization, shows that most deaf and deafened adults who have cochlear implants are satisfied with them, but significantly more follow-up and lifelong supports are needed.
Trump vs. Biden, the sequel, is a battle of two older men with big liabilities
In exactly one year this week — on Nov. 5, 2024 — Americans will vote for their next president. Joe Biden and Donald Trump are likely to face each other again. Both candidates have flaws but so far have batted away all contenders from within their own parties. Biden, who turns 81 in a few days, has […]
Unpacking Elon Musk’s convoluted U.S. - Mexico border visit
In late September, Elon Musk, the tech billionaire behind Tesla and SpaceX, set the internet ablaze with his visit to the Texas-Mexico border to provide what he called an “unfiltered” perspective on the border crisis as thousands of migrants, mostly from Venezuela, crossed the Rio Grande River. In a video at Eagle Pass, Texas, Musk calls […]
Canada’s refugee pilot programs risk making refugees prove their worth
Canada’s Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot (EMPP), intended to settle skilled refugees to fill urgent Canadian labour shortages, risks commodifying refugees and humanitarianism. A shift towards using an asylum claimant’s economic potential to judge their claim risks blurring the lines between humanitarian- and economically-driven migration to Canada. Canada has garnered international praise for the way it has welcomed refugees. […]
York U and Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre sign MOU to create positive change in Barrie and beyond
The MOU aims to create positive change by enhancing collaborative opportunities between York and RVH for faculty and students and to train the next generation of health professionals, to improve outcomes for patients and communities.
York University researcher to lead patient partnership for CIHR funded national genome library initiative
“We are at a turning point where the scientific community has come to take seriously the patient-centric expression ‘nothing about us without us,’” says Prof Ian Stedman.