Slowing it down: the benefits of experiencing slow travel
Faculty and travellers alike explain how slow travel benefits their experiences, the environment, and what exactly slow travel means.
Tag: International
How Canada can “make the shift” to change the youth impacted by homelessness
A group of activists are providing grants for project proposals to combat youth homelessness and poverty.
York and Qatar University create first International Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Registry
Dr Sherry Grace of York and Dr Karam Turk-Adawi of Qatar University have teamed up with the International Council of Cardiovascular and Prevention and Rehabilitation to create the first global cardiovascular rehabilitation registry.
York establishes Toronto Centre of Excellence on Youth Homelessness Prevention
A York professor along with the president of A Way Home Canada are collaborating to prevent and put an end to youth homelessness in Canada.
York shows meaningful progress towards UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
As part of their commitments to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals initiative, York released a report detailing their progress towards bringing positive change on a local and global scale.
Indigenous literature and why it’s important
Faculty and Indigenous authors discuss the importance of reading Indigenous literature and the responsibilities of readers.
Protests successfully shoot down harmful lithium mine in Serbia
Environmental protests halt Rio Tinto’s lithium mine project in Jadar after concerns raised that excavation will cause irreversible ecological damage.
Professor’s research extracts eDNA out of the air
Professor Elizabeth Clare and her team have devised a method to successfully pull eDNA from the air within controlled environments.
What will 2022 mean in Canada’s fight against climate change?
With the aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement climate-resilient measures,
Canada attempts to gain the upper-hand in its battle against climate change in 2022.
New advisory against non-essential travel reinforces uncertainty for international students’ education
The Omicron variant continues to complicate decisions surrounding airborne travel just as a new semester approaches, leaving international students with the uncertainty of possible learning barriers.