Senate discussion may have centred on the 2014-15 budget last week, however, all eyes were on the challenges of the following four years. “I am not preaching doom and gloom here,” said Janice Deakin, provost and vice-president (academic), who presente …
As a child growing up in Holland, Auke van Holst watched as more than 10,000 skaters passed on the canal behind his home during the famous 200-kilometre Eleven Cities Skating Tour. Decades later, the former Western professor has combined his love of skating with his artistic talents, as a way to say ‘thank you’ to the Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic.
Standing between you and the online world is a faceless group of people who either protect or prevent, depending on your perspective, certain content from seeing the light of day. That work, according to one professor, needs to be unmasked to better understand a budding, yet evolving industry, one which houses workers whose job is essential, but whose nuanced needs are not adequately considered.
Six winners from four faculties have been awarded Western’s highest honour for the “highest calling.”
Three Western teams hope to drive away with a national campus competition’s top prize.
An unplayable instrument has never looked so good. And now, you can bring it home and help out students from Western’s Piano Technology Program at the same time.
I first encountered the literature on informed consent a decade ago when teaching professionalism to McMaster University medical students.
On Oct. 18, 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada released its judgment in the case of Hassan Rasouli. The court stressed its ruling applied only in Ontario. The main implication of the ruling is physicians in Ontario seeking to withdraw life support, over the wishes of substitute decision-makers, have no other choice but to apply to the province’s Consent and Capacity Board, regardless of whether they feel ongoing treatment falls within the standard of medical care.
Two, eight-hour videotapes – both of unimaginable poor quality – were my windows to the universe.
Ruslana, a Ukrainian pop star-turned-activist, sat facing Wolf Blitzer in CNN’s Situation Room. She had spent three months in Kiev’s Independence Square, Maidan Nezalezhnosti, singing and making speeches in support of Ukraine’s right to democracy and free speech. In the middle of the night on Dec. 10, when riot police attacked the unarmed protesters, her voice could be heard from the stage and live streaming on television, calling out: “Wake up, anyone who can hear me, come out and help.”
Having lived in India and Singapore as a child, Western Economics professor Terry Sicular was always fascinated by Asia. Five decades later, that passion prevails.
An inexpensive tool for assessing arteries inside the head may detect a potentially dangerous hole within the heart of some patients with an unexplained stroke, according to a Western researcher.
As a fourth-year Medical Sciences student, Jonathan Besney never expected to spend his days making crafts. And he certainly didn’t expect to have much company doing it.
As a child growing up in Holland, Auke van Holst watched as more than 10,000 skaters passed on the canal behind his home during the famous 200-kilometre Eleven Cities Skating Tour. Decades later, the former Western professor has combined his love of skating with his artistic talents, as a way to say ‘thank you’ to the Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic.
Standing between you and the online world is a faceless group of people who either protect or prevent, depending on your perspective, certain content from seeing the light of day. That work, according to one professor, needs to be unmasked to better understand a budding, yet evolving industry, one which houses workers whose job is essential, but whose nuanced needs are not adequately considered.
Six winners from four faculties have been awarded Western’s highest honour for the “highest calling.”
Three Western teams hope to drive away with a national campus competition’s top prize.
An unplayable instrument has never looked so good. And now, you can bring it home and help out students from Western’s Piano Technology Program at the same time.
I first encountered the literature on informed consent a decade ago when teaching professionalism to McMaster University medical students.
On Oct. 18, 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada released its judgment in the case of Hassan Rasouli. The court stressed its ruling applied only in Ontario. The main implication of the ruling is physicians in Ontario seeking to withdraw life support, over the wishes of substitute decision-makers, have no other choice but to apply to the province’s Consent and Capacity Board, regardless of whether they feel ongoing treatment falls within the standard of medical care.
Two, eight-hour videotapes – both of unimaginable poor quality – were my windows to the universe.
Ruslana, a Ukrainian pop star-turned-activist, sat facing Wolf Blitzer in CNN’s Situation Room. She had spent three months in Kiev’s Independence Square, Maidan Nezalezhnosti, singing and making speeches in support of Ukraine’s right to democracy and free speech. In the middle of the night on Dec. 10, when riot police attacked the unarmed protesters, her voice could be heard from the stage and live streaming on television, calling out: “Wake up, anyone who can hear me, come out and help.”
Having lived in India and Singapore as a child, Western Economics professor Terry Sicular was always fascinated by Asia. Five decades later, that passion prevails.
An inexpensive tool for assessing arteries inside the head may detect a potentially dangerous hole within the heart of some patients with an unexplained stroke, according to a Western researcher.
As a fourth-year Medical Sciences student, Jonathan Besney never expected to spend his days making crafts. And he certainly didn’t expect to have much company doing it.