The John Sopinka Courthouse has to prepare for the largest human trafficking case in Canadian history – and it’s going to cost big dollars, wrote the Hamilton Spectator Jan. 27. “It’s millions and millions and millions of taxpayer dollars,” said...

Talk to just about any Canadian business leader eyeing Brazil these days, and an unexpected theme emerges: optimism, wrote The Globe and Mail Jan. 26…. And increasingly, Canadians want in. Brazil is not without some serious challenges, however. It’s ranked...

The government must go beyond mere window dressing and pursue tangible outcomes that address the needs of Aboriginal Canadians, wrote political scientist and legal scholar Jennifer Dalton, a faculty member in York’s Department of Political Science in the Faculty of Liberal Arts...

York University students will begin a 10-day campus occupation on Monday in protest of rising tuition costs for postsecondary education in Canada, reported CTV Toronto, Global Toronto and other Toronto-area TV and radio news shows Jan. 23. The York Federation...

A newly published study says alien plants and animals are already invading Canada through doors opened by climate change, and research and policy lag far behind, wrote The Canadian Press Jan. 20. Neither Ottawa nor any of the provinces are...

In a controversial editorial on sex selection in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, interim editor-in-chief Rajendra Kale identified female feticide as an “evil” that “devalues women”, wrote Roxanne Mykitiuk, professor in York’s Osgoode Hall Law School, in The Globe and...

With his career at a crossroads, Sidney Crosby is on his way to Atlanta to visit a specialist as he continues to experience post-concussion symptoms, wrote thedailyplanet.com Jan. 17. “I just hope they’re not looking for just any solution,” said...

Mayor Rob Ford put his image on the line on Monday as he stepped on a very public scale to kick off the Cut The Waist challenge – a charitable campaign to shed excess pounds across the city, wrote Global...

Even as dust storms rolled over Phoenix, fires ravaged Texas, tornadoes flattened towns like Goderich, Ont., and rivers flooded many regions, mentions of climate change in newspapers and on broadcast media in North America decreased substantially, wrote the Toronto Star...

A 1972 [Canadian] law designed to crack down on tax abuses prevented golfing, yachting and hunting lodges in particular from being tax-deductible, so that the wealthy could not put personal luxuries on expenses, wrote The Economist Jan. 14. Discriminating against golf...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government isn’t overstepping its authority by aggressively promoting the Northern Gateway pipeline and attacking the mega-project’s opponents while it is before a quasi-judicial tribunal, wrote the Vancouver Sun Jan. 12, in a story that cited comments...

York University has ranked first among Canadian universities for the second year in a row in a global campus sustainability survey, wrote The Canadian Press Jan. 10, in a story that was carried in newspapers and broadcast media across the...