Writers' Trust honours four York degree holders

Novelists Joseph Boyden, Rohinton Mistry and Matt Shaw, and super volunteer Bernard Ostry received some of this year’s literary awards...

Hot ticket: Lions host McMaster in basketball championship

The York men's basketball team hosts the McMaster Marauders in the OUA Championship Final this Saturday...

Fred Thury, playwright, composer, director and part-time faculty member

A memorial service will be held today for Professor Fred Thury, who died March 6 following a 22-year battle with leukemia...

Subway story prompts extensive reaction

A Toronto Star story speculating on funding for a subway extension to York University generated reaction from everyone from Mayor David Miller to York students...

York to gauge effect of Ontario tuition plan, welcomes access measures

The Ontario government's announcement on postsecondary funding is 'complex' and will take time to evaluate, says President & Vice-Chancellor Lorna R. Marsden...

York University and CUPE Local 1356-2 reach tentative settlement

The bargaining teams for York University and CUPE Local 1356-2, representing student security, parking and CCTV operators, reached a tentative settlement yesterday...

Film professor's play reopens in Toronto

Colleen Wagner’s The Monument is the first play by a non-black to be performed by Obsidian, a theatre company devoted to promoting the black voice...

Toronto Star claims York subway funding due in next Ontario budget

Funding for the much-anticipated subway line to York and Vaughan is expected in the March 23 provincial budget, the Toronto Star said, quoting unnamed sources....

Road to Congress: Understanding the realities of Aboriginal life

York Professor Susan Dion is working with teachers to encourage them to inform young Canadians about the realities of Aboriginal life...

York music instructors nominated for National Jazz Awards

Five jazz musicians who teach in York’s Department of Music have been nominated for Canadian Jazz Awards...