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 […]
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 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. […]
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.
“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.
York University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with India’s O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) that creates new exchange programs designed to mutually enrich the student experience. Both universities share a commitment to progressive values underpinned by academic excellence. Signed recently in Sonipat, Haryana, the MOU ensures students, researchers, and faculty members benefit from […]
In the past few years, people who identify as LGBTQ+ have been facing increasing harm and discrimination. Canada is not insulated from growing anti-queer and anti-trans sentiment.
