For Barbara Turnbull, experiencing the challenges and possibilities of the medical system has been a reality for the past 29 years, since age 18, when she was left a high-level quadriplegic after she was shot during a robbery attempt at the convenience store where she worked. Despite the devastation of her injury, the experiences and […]
Theatre @ York wraps its 2011-2012 season with Restoration, a play by visionary English playwright Edward Bond, directed by David Storch. The play opened March 18 and will continue until March 24 at York University. Bond’s biting and witty play strips away the genteel veneer of life in 18th-century England to expose the brutal truth beneath. The […]
Crisis of Capital, Crisis of Theory is the first in a series of student-organized conferences on heterodox political economy, seeking to develop new ways of understanding capitalism and power. The conference, to be held Oct. 29 to 31 at York, will have a dual theme: to investigate the global financial crisis and to use the […]
In last week’s Globe and Mail, there was a disturbing story about how passengers failed to help a 79-year-old man who was being mugged on a Toronto subway car, despite his cries for help, wrote Wendy Craig of Queen’s University, Tracy Vaillancourt of the University of Ottawa and Debra Pepler, Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology […]