In spite of a controversy over the use of municipal e-mail addresses for election purposes, few Newmarket politicians see it as an abuse of public office, reported the Newmarket Era Banner<\/I> Nov. 2. A York expert in political ethics, however, disagrees, saying the practice is highly problematic. \"If they're using their own [home] e-mail address, that's OK,\" said David Shugarman<\/B>, a political science professor in the Faculty of Arts and director of York\u2019s Centre for Practical Ethics. \"But using their town e-mail address is like saying, 'come on by my office when I'm working for the region or the municipality and we'll talk about what I can do when you re-elect me.' It's equivalent to an MP or MPP using office stationery or their office at Queen's Park or Ottawa to campaign and that would be regarded as quite improper.\"<\/P>
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The Schulich School of Business<\/B> at York University and the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary were singled out in a recent survey of Canadian business schools for their efforts to champion corporate responsibility through a wide array of course offerings and specializations, reported Montreal\u2019s Gazette<\/I> Nov. 6. A survey of 27 of the country's 31 business schools by Imagine, part of the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy, revealed that students, faculty and the business sector are all clamouring to have ethics integrated into the core curriculum as a result of Enron, WorldCom and other financial scandals that have rocked the business world in the last three years.<\/P>
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York University students who are running for seats on Toronto's city council and school board in the Nov. 10 municipal election were mentioned the Toronto Star<\/I> Nov. 6.<\/P> The Argos' new owners<\/P><\/B> The announcement that developer Howard Sokolowski and partner David Cynamon are the new owners of the homeless Toronto Argonauts made headlines in media outlets in Toronto and across the country Nov. 5 and 6. Sokolowski is CEO of Tribute Communities, which is building a housing development on property purchased from York University<\/STRONG>. Cynamon used to play football for the former York University Yeomen <\/STRONG>(now the York Lions). The Toronto Star <\/EM>noted that Cynamon never finished his York degree, striking out to develop his own businesses instead \u2013 first, a pedicab outfit, then high-tech company NHC and finally, in 1995, KIK Corporation, a private-label household products manufacturer. The news was also carried by The Toronto Sun<\/I>, the Calgary Herald<\/I>, Canadian Press and CBC Radio\u2019s \"Metro Morning.\"<\/P> On air<\/P> Professor David Shugarman questions the use of municipal e-mail accounts for election purposes...<\/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-2033","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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