A collaborative effort is making strides towards providing vital primary health care services to those at risk of or experiencing homelessness in Windsor, Ont. The collaboration includes the City of Windsor, Hotel Dieu Grace Healthcare, the Canadian Mental …
Robert the Bruce was a warrior-king, hero, champion of Scottish independence. And not a leper. For almost seven centuries, the Scots have endured taunts that Robert the Bruce had leprosy, a disease that until recently, held a stigma unlike any other. Now, thanks to...
Raised in a rural farming community, Brad Hiebert knows full well accessing health-care services and general health information can sometimes be a challenge. Hospitals are shutting down; doctors are leaving town and local health clinics – should a rural community be...
Paul Benedetti’s columns – in his view – are about nothing. They’re also about everything. For the past eight years, the Western Journalism instructor has penned a Saturday column for the Hamilton Spectator, garnering awards and praise with readers, authors and fellow...
There is a need for supervised injection sites, and research has shown that to be the case in some of Canada’s largest cities, including Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. But there is also a need in London, according to a recent study that took a close look at...
Three women, with ties to Western, joined Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump Monday in a roundtable discussion on the importance of women business leaders to economic prosperity. Carol Stephenson, a member of General Motors...
The questions came in “fast and furious” for Samantha Brennan. When the Western Philosophy professor set out to host an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit last month, she was amused by the range and the amount of questions, and how fast they came in. In an...
Two members of the Western community are among eight honourees named by The YMCA of Western Ontario as 2017 Women of Excellence. Dr. Marina Salvadori, a faculty member in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, is a provincial, national and international...
When it comes to addressing mental-health issues in developing countries and marginalized communities, the solution needs to reflect the multi-faceted nature of the problem, according to one Western researcher. Asking students for input is one way Dr. Arlene...
In November 2011, Glen Canning’s daughter, Rehtaeh, was sexually assaulted by four males at a house party near Halifax. The assault was photographed and shared on social media. Rehtaeh was subsequently harassed and bullied for months. In 2013, suffering from...
Calling the Ontario government’s answer to the growing concern of painkiller addiction and overdose problems a “knee-jerk move,” one Western researcher said it’s likely to create more problems than the provincial solution hopes to solve. As of Jan. 31, the province...
Joy Spear Chief-Morris admits she can sometimes be a bit stubborn. And single minded. But those traits have served the elite athlete, and member of the Mustangs Track and Field team, well – in life and in sport. The fifth-year History and First Nations Studies student...
Western’s web development team recently rolled out a small change in its Cascade web content management system. If you’re working on – or visiting – one of Western’s staff listing pages, the team hopes you take notice. Western staff listing pages frequently have...
Robert the Bruce was a warrior-king, hero, champion of Scottish independence. And not a leper. For almost seven centuries, the Scots have endured taunts that Robert the Bruce had leprosy, a disease that until recently, held a stigma unlike any other. Now, thanks to...
Raised in a rural farming community, Brad Hiebert knows full well accessing health-care services and general health information can sometimes be a challenge. Hospitals are shutting down; doctors are leaving town and local health clinics – should a rural community be...
Paul Benedetti’s columns – in his view – are about nothing. They’re also about everything. For the past eight years, the Western Journalism instructor has penned a Saturday column for the Hamilton Spectator, garnering awards and praise with readers, authors and fellow...
There is a need for supervised injection sites, and research has shown that to be the case in some of Canada’s largest cities, including Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. But there is also a need in London, according to a recent study that took a close look at...
Three women, with ties to Western, joined Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump Monday in a roundtable discussion on the importance of women business leaders to economic prosperity. Carol Stephenson, a member of General Motors...
The questions came in “fast and furious” for Samantha Brennan. When the Western Philosophy professor set out to host an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit last month, she was amused by the range and the amount of questions, and how fast they came in. In an...
Two members of the Western community are among eight honourees named by The YMCA of Western Ontario as 2017 Women of Excellence. Dr. Marina Salvadori, a faculty member in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, is a provincial, national and international...
When it comes to addressing mental-health issues in developing countries and marginalized communities, the solution needs to reflect the multi-faceted nature of the problem, according to one Western researcher. Asking students for input is one way Dr. Arlene...
In November 2011, Glen Canning’s daughter, Rehtaeh, was sexually assaulted by four males at a house party near Halifax. The assault was photographed and shared on social media. Rehtaeh was subsequently harassed and bullied for months. In 2013, suffering from...
Calling the Ontario government’s answer to the growing concern of painkiller addiction and overdose problems a “knee-jerk move,” one Western researcher said it’s likely to create more problems than the provincial solution hopes to solve. As of Jan. 31, the province...
Joy Spear Chief-Morris admits she can sometimes be a bit stubborn. And single minded. But those traits have served the elite athlete, and member of the Mustangs Track and Field team, well – in life and in sport. The fifth-year History and First Nations Studies student...
Western’s web development team recently rolled out a small change in its Cascade web content management system. If you’re working on – or visiting – one of Western’s staff listing pages, the team hopes you take notice. Western staff listing pages frequently have...