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Month: January 2012

A font fit for a founder

A font fit for a founder

You know Ian Brignell’s work, even if you don’t know Ian Brignell. During the course of a nearly three-decade career, the Toronto-based lettering and logo designer has worked with some of the biggest names in the corporate world – Bell and Boston Pi …

Senior-driving study eyes safer roadways

For some, a GPS is an invaluable part of a lengthy commute, helping drivers navigate unfamiliar cities. For others – and seniors, in particular – a GPS, along with a number of other automotive gadgets, often proves a distraction, doing more harm than good.

Funding supports HIV/AIDS vaccine trials

Funding supports HIV/AIDS vaccine trials

The National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) awarded Sumagen Canada Inc. $728,000 to support human clinical trials for a preventative HIV vaccine developed by Dr. Chil-Yong Kang and his team at The University of Western Ontario.

Campus Digest, Jan. 12

Campus Digest, Jan. 12

Sustainability workshop targets faculty, PhD students For Richard Ivey School of Business professor Tima Bansal, sustainability requires collaboration between academics and business. “We need to do this together,” she says. “No one individual can move the system.” For...

Winders: Let’s go shopping south of the border

Winders: Let’s go shopping south of the border

It’s time to go shopping, Canada. I know that’s unusual advice just a week after the holiday season, and days before the credit card bills that fueled it start rolling in. But now is the time to go shopping, because your neighbours to the south are offering incredible values.

Traister: Credit to the true ‘Negotiators’

Traister: Credit to the true ‘Negotiators’

I am pleased to see Western News draw attention in its year-end Newsmakers edition (Dec. 8) to the historic negotiation and strike of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association-Librarians and Archivists (UWOFA-LA).

Small: Look beyond lies-by-omission

Small: Look beyond lies-by-omission

Thanks for the article on Western professor David Heap’s efforts (“The man who won’t go away,” Nov. 24). However, one omission is troubling.

Avola: Occupy movement all about love

Avola: Occupy movement all about love

The Occupy movement is a protest against those whose actions attack love. The Occupy protestors are screaming for the recognition of all humans. It is a call to our elite to stop profiting off of the backs of the poor and marginalized people whose countries we have engulfed with war and terror. It is a call to stop pulling funds from our public and social services to feed corporate imperialism. This protest is for love. Our world needs to change; otherwise we will ultimately destroy ourselves.

Rito: Read, then make up mind on Occupy

Rito: Read, then make up mind on Occupy

Heinz Klatt’s portrayal of the Occupy movement was a less realistic representation of the actual protesters than Snooki is of people from New Jersey (“Occupy movement may be most vapid of all,” Heinz Klatt, Nov. 24).

Senior-driving study eyes safer roadways

For some, a GPS is an invaluable part of a lengthy commute, helping drivers navigate unfamiliar cities. For others – and seniors, in particular – a GPS, along with a number of other automotive gadgets, often proves a distraction, doing more harm than good.

Funding supports HIV/AIDS vaccine trials

Funding supports HIV/AIDS vaccine trials

The National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) awarded Sumagen Canada Inc. $728,000 to support human clinical trials for a preventative HIV vaccine developed by Dr. Chil-Yong Kang and his team at The University of Western Ontario.

Campus Digest, Jan. 12

Campus Digest, Jan. 12

Sustainability workshop targets faculty, PhD students For Richard Ivey School of Business professor Tima Bansal, sustainability requires collaboration between academics and business. “We need to do this together,” she says. “No one individual can move the system.” For...

Winders: Let’s go shopping south of the border

Winders: Let’s go shopping south of the border

It’s time to go shopping, Canada. I know that’s unusual advice just a week after the holiday season, and days before the credit card bills that fueled it start rolling in. But now is the time to go shopping, because your neighbours to the south are offering incredible values.

Traister: Credit to the true ‘Negotiators’

Traister: Credit to the true ‘Negotiators’

I am pleased to see Western News draw attention in its year-end Newsmakers edition (Dec. 8) to the historic negotiation and strike of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association-Librarians and Archivists (UWOFA-LA).

Small: Look beyond lies-by-omission

Small: Look beyond lies-by-omission

Thanks for the article on Western professor David Heap’s efforts (“The man who won’t go away,” Nov. 24). However, one omission is troubling.

Avola: Occupy movement all about love

Avola: Occupy movement all about love

The Occupy movement is a protest against those whose actions attack love. The Occupy protestors are screaming for the recognition of all humans. It is a call to our elite to stop profiting off of the backs of the poor and marginalized people whose countries we have engulfed with war and terror. It is a call to stop pulling funds from our public and social services to feed corporate imperialism. This protest is for love. Our world needs to change; otherwise we will ultimately destroy ourselves.

Rito: Read, then make up mind on Occupy

Rito: Read, then make up mind on Occupy

Heinz Klatt’s portrayal of the Occupy movement was a less realistic representation of the actual protesters than Snooki is of people from New Jersey (“Occupy movement may be most vapid of all,” Heinz Klatt, Nov. 24).