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Month: March 2018

Presidential search seeks community input

Presidential search seeks community input

What should be the priorities of Western’s next president? What challenges need to be tackled? What opportunities need to be seized? What kind of experience and personal characteristics must this person process to thrive in the position? Members of the Presidential...

Opera fundraiser floats cash to dragon boat team

Opera fundraiser floats cash to dragon boat team

Karen Shelstad never thought she’d be in the gym six days a week, much less be part of a world-champion dragon boat racing team heading to Hungary and Italy this July for an international competition. She also never thought she’d have breast cancer. But it was that...

Clinic success spotlights dire need for help for children

Clinic success spotlights dire need for help for children

Four months after a Western child-and-youth clinic opened as a safety valve for backlogs in mental health services, the centre is working through a waiting list as long as 10 weeks. The new interdisciplinary Child and Youth Development Clinic helps children work...

Study says Internet troll toll not always negative

Study says Internet troll toll not always negative

Yimin Chen’s first experience with Internet trolls was in the early days of the worldwide web. Interested in “fairly nerdy and geeky stuff like comic books and video games” in chat rooms and forums, he found an online community where people shared interests, inside...

Attack ads become a double negative

Attack ads become a double negative

With a provincial election just months away, expect the gloves to come off and the rhetoric to ramp up. But negative campaigning – candidates trying to improve their odds with ads slamming their opponents – may not be the best way to win an Ontario election, according...

Play your role in protecting our fair-dealing rights

Play your role in protecting our fair-dealing rights

The federal government is currently conducting a five-year review of the Copyright Act. While there are several important policies that will be discussed, the most significant for the educational community is fair dealing. It is also likely to be the most contentious....

Opera fundraiser floats cash to dragon boat team

Opera fundraiser floats cash to dragon boat team

Karen Shelstad never thought she’d be in the gym six days a week, much less be part of a world-champion dragon boat racing team heading to Hungary and Italy this July for an international competition. She also never thought she’d have breast cancer. But it was that...

Clinic success spotlights dire need for help for children

Clinic success spotlights dire need for help for children

Four months after a Western child-and-youth clinic opened as a safety valve for backlogs in mental health services, the centre is working through a waiting list as long as 10 weeks. The new interdisciplinary Child and Youth Development Clinic helps children work...

Study says Internet troll toll not always negative

Study says Internet troll toll not always negative

Yimin Chen’s first experience with Internet trolls was in the early days of the worldwide web. Interested in “fairly nerdy and geeky stuff like comic books and video games” in chat rooms and forums, he found an online community where people shared interests, inside...

Attack ads become a double negative

Attack ads become a double negative

With a provincial election just months away, expect the gloves to come off and the rhetoric to ramp up. But negative campaigning – candidates trying to improve their odds with ads slamming their opponents – may not be the best way to win an Ontario election, according...

Play your role in protecting our fair-dealing rights

Play your role in protecting our fair-dealing rights

The federal government is currently conducting a five-year review of the Copyright Act. While there are several important policies that will be discussed, the most significant for the educational community is fair dealing. It is also likely to be the most contentious....