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Learn about Indigenous peoples and sample bannock bread

Boozhoo, sekon, tansi, greetings. The Centre for Aboriginal Student Services (CASS) will be in Vari Hall Monday with a table providing samples of three sisters soup and bannock bread, as a way to promote awareness of Indigenous peoples and of the upcoming National Aboriginal Day – June 21. CASS will hand out samples in Vari […]

Students present research recommendations to federal Task Force on Financial Literacy

How can we improve the financial literacy of Canadians? It’s a question three York University students were eager to answer when they presented their research findings on May 11 to the federal government’s Task Force on Financial Literacy at the Fairmont Royal York hotel in Toronto. The task force is charged with consulting Canadians from […]

Author Wayson Choy to deliver Asian Heritage Month Lecture at York on May 25

Acclaimed author Wayson Choy will deliver this year’s Asian Heritage Month Lecture at York next Tuesday. In his lecture, “Asian Identity: Becoming Canadian”, Choy will review his personal insights into life as an in-between citizen, living as a hyphenated Chinese-Canadian for most of his life. Choy – born in Canada in 1939 – will explore how […]