Simon Black discusses the NDP position on the minimum wage in Canada. Andrea Horwath’s stance on the minimum wage suggests that Ontario’s New Democrats are no longer on the side of some of the most vulnerable workers in our economy, writes Simon Black. Full Story Here.
Professor Stephen Gaetz comments on homeless in Canada and says homeless youth are thrust into adult roles before their time and the transition is often traumatic. Full Story Here.
“The Enabling City and Goethe-Institut co-publish a new tool kit”. CITY’s pop-up democracy panel in 2012 got credited in being instrumental for Chiara Camponeschi's second edition of Enabling City. Full Document Available Here
February 17 - The “Re-imagining our Cities” event on February 7 with the federal NDP party and Matthew Kellway were featured in a Toronto Star article. Full Story Here. (Source: The Toronto Star)
The City Institute presents: “Social Justice and the City: Exploring the vexed nature of the relationship between the academy and activism” In this day-long event, we will feature panels and workshops on how an engagement with artist-activists in the city might speak to modes of academic activism and production that promote urban social justice. We […]
The City Institute is co-sponsoring a lecture titled 'Troubling Territories: Poetics, Politics and the Queerness of Place.' As part of its on-going Equity Seminar Series, the Faculty of Environmental Studies and Accessibility, Community and Equity@York proudly present: Troubling Territories: Poetics, politics and the queerness of place A lecture & dialogue on racialized geographies, visual and performance art, […]
Roger Keil is featured in the February 12, 2014 edition of Novae Res Urbis for his discussion at the recent CUI event, "Good Density: The Elusive Search for Good Density. The Global Conversation."
York and Ryerson Universities are pleased to announce “Searching for New Imaginings: Facing Challenges for Activism and Justice in the University,” a series of three events with Sarah Schulman, Distinguished Professor of English at The City University of New York (College of Staten Island). The series opens on Saturday, 8 February 2014 from 8:00–10:00 p.m. with an evening panel […]
The City Institute at York University and the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies in cooperation with FES and the Department of Geography offer one or two study abroad opportunities to spend one or two semesters during the 2014-15 academic year at the Department of Human Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany). While there is […]
REGISTER HERE for the Canadian Urban Institute's (CUI) Place Maker event "Good Density: The Elusive Search for Good Density. A Cure for What Divides Us?" will be hosted on February 11 from 7:30am - 9:30am at Innis College (2 Sussex Ave. Toronto, ON). Description: Suburbs hold the answers to many unanswered questions about urban design, community connectivity, housing affordability […]