\"The global village has been wrongly portrayed as one global culture, with everyone living in harmony. Our genetic coding doesn't allow us to trust billions of people. We only have about 150 relationships and we only have a strong trust for about 20 of those,\" said Paul Hoffert, a professor and director of the CulTech Research Centre at York University and Sheridan College, reports the Era-Banner<\/i> Feb. 22. \"Online, you don't know if you're speaking to a 13-year-old girl or a 63-year-old man.\" Hoffert was speaking at the launch of the Smart Newmarket campaign for an online community.<\/p>\n
York grad new environment deputy minister<\/b><\/p>\n
Effective Jan. 21, Virginia West became the new Ontario deputy minister of the environment, reports Solid Waste & Recycling <\/i>magazine Feb. 1. West has an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School.<\/p>\n
Marijuana marches toward mainstream<\/strong><\/p>\n When someone's mom or dad comes into the Friendly Stranger, a boutique that specializes in pot-smoking paraphernalia, it can only mean one thing: the times, they are a-changin' once again, reports Canadian Press<\/i> in a wire story Feb. 27. It's all very exciting for lawyer, cannabis crusader and Osgoode Hall Law School Prof. Alan Young, who represented participants in Canada's medical-marijuana program during their successful court challenge late last year. \"Something changed in the 1990s,\" said Young. \"What changed, I don\u2019t know. But something definitely did.\"<\/p>\n Distinguished alumnus known for service<\/strong><\/p>\n John H. (Jack) Yocom, recipient of York University's Schulich School of Business Distinguished Alumni Award, died on Feb. 22 after a lengthy career in education, journalism, corporate communications and community service, says an obituary in The Globe and Mail<\/i> Feb. 25.<\/p>\n On air<\/strong><\/p>\n \"The global village has been wrongly portrayed as one global culture, with everyone living in harmony...<\/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-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-york-in-the-media"],"acf":{"internal_publish_date":null,"original_image":null},"yoast_head":"\n\n