York Region's rapid transit committee is expected today to call for a $539-million commitment to build a $1.6-billion rapid transit network \u2013 with links to York University \u2013 reported the Toronto Star<\/I> Sept. 10. Such a network would be contingent on both Ottawa and Queen's Park agreeing to provide funding along with York Region that would bring bus rapid transit to the region by 2010. The plan features bus rapid transit along Yonge Street and Highway 7, with some extensions within Vaughan and Markham, and possibly links to the TTC at York University and the Don Mills subway.<\/P>
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Family values new theme in election<\/STRONG><\/P> News media have been seeking out political scientist Robert MacDermid<\/B>, of York\u2019s Faculty of Arts, to comment on the Ontario election campaign. Here are some of his comments:<\/P> Campaign promises could be difficult to keep<\/P><\/B> Ontario parties are making election pledges that run into the billions while Ontario's economy is suffering, reported Canadian Press Sept. 9. As for the NDP's platform, \"there are a lot of things in there that sound really great but nowhere does it say how these things will be paid for,'' said Bernie Wolf<\/B>, an economics professor at York\u2019s Schulich School of Business.<\/P> Cracking down on plagiarism<\/P><\/B> This fall, some of Canada's top universities are requiring students to hand in their essays to an American company so it can scan its electronic database for duplicate passages, reported Regina\u2019s Leader-Post <\/I>Sept. 10. Turnitin.com then spits out an \"originality report\" to their professors along with the electronic copy of the papers. The underlying assumption \u2013 guilty until proven innocent \u2013 changes the nature of the battle against plagiarism, a growing problem at university as class sizes balloon and personal contact with professors diminishes. In the past, professors went to turnitin.com only if they were suspicious of a paper's authenticity. The University of Toronto, McGill University and the University of British Columbia are among those testing out this more aggressive tactic. Most clients start out with more limited use of the service. <\/FONT>Other Canadian university clients include York<\/STRONG>, Simon Fraser, McMaster, Brock, Ryerson and Western Ontario, said the newspaper.<\/P> Math whizzes plot fight against SARS<\/P><\/B> If SARS makes an unwelcome return this coming winter, Canada's mathematicians will be ready, reported The Hamilton Spectator <\/I>Sept. 9. <\/I>The Canadian Press story said mathematicians from Canada, China, Taiwan, Australia and the US Centers for Disease Control gathered in Banff, Alberta, the weekend of Sept. 5-6 to try to coordinate ways to use the power of mathematical modelling to fight severe acute respiratory syndrome. \"The optimal design of the quarantine period is one of the major issues...we're discussing here,\" explained conference organizer Jianhong Wu<\/B>, mathematics professor in York\u2019s Faculty of Arts and Canada Research Chair in Applied Mathematics. \"If it's too long, then the possibility that some people will not obey the order is high. If it's too short, of course the potential is that some symptomatic person might come back into the community and again spread the disease.\"<\/P> Fixed mortgages offer certainty<\/P> Moshe Milevsky<\/B>, a professor of finance at York\u2019s Schulich School of Business, says fixed rates are almost always higher than variable rates because they include a premium for protecting borrowers from fluctuations of short-term rates, reported CP Sept. 9 in a story about lower mortgage interest rates. The real question isn't \"Where are interest rates headed?'' but \"How important is it to have certainty in your personal budgeting?'' \"There are very few things that are as certain as the payments on a five-year mortgage,'' Milevsky said. \"A lot of us don't need that certainty.''<\/P> On air<\/P> York Region's rapid transit committee is expected today to call for a $539-million commitment to build a $1.6-billion rapid transit network \u2013 with links to York University...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"yfileauthor":[],"qualifier":[],"yfile-author":[],"tags-to-show":[],"workflow":[],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-york-in-the-media"],"acf":{"internal_publish_date":null,"original_image":null},"yoast_head":"\n
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