York University, Canada

York University is a modern, multi-campus, urban university located in Toronto, Ontario. Backed by a diverse group of students, faculty, staff, alumni and partners, we bring a uniquely global perspective to help solve societal challenges, drive positive change and prepare our students for success. York’s fully bilingual Glendon Campus is home to Southern Ontario’s Centre of Excellence for French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education. York’s campuses in Costa Rica and India offer students exceptional transnational learning opportunities and innovative programs. Together, we can make things right for our communities, our planet, and our future.

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The Canadian Medical Association’s revised Code of Ethics and Professionalism calls on physicians to respect Indigenous knowledge, worldviews and healing practices as part of a wider commitment to reconciliation, and addressing discrimination and racism in health care. Elders smudge as Residential School and Sixties Scoop survivors are honoured for a Healing Walk through downtown Winnipeg on the National Day for Truth And Reconciliation, Sept. 30, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods

Canada’s Indigenous health obligations can’t be separated from rights and reconciliation

Commitments to Indigenous health research cannot be clawed back as part of proposed dismantling of equity, diversity and inclusion criteria for federal research funding.
Many people continue working while managing chronic pain, often adapting their tasks and environments to reduce its impact. (Unsplash+_)

Living with chronic pain at work: Supportive managers can help, but they can’t solve everything

New research shows supportive supervisors may help protect employees’ psychological well-being, but meaningful support requires workplaces that can adapt to changing needs.
While government policy and media critique has focussed on higher education and international students in Canada, secondary schools have attracted far less attention. (Getty Images/Unsplash+)

The private school market serving international secondary students in Ontario has grown

A lack of regulation raises concern about educational quality as well as children’s safety.
There is life after death: digitally speaking thanabots prove this by virtually recreating loved ones who have passed away. It’s a money-spinning, potentially heart-wrenching and largely unregulated business. AI generated image

How grief became a subscription service

Two researchers navigate the mind-boggling and often sinister, parallel universe that is known as the digital afterlife industry and chatbots specifically designed to help people grieve.
Organizations pushing for gender equity often point to parental leave as part of the solution. But these policies can simultaneously advance men’s careers and leave women’s unchanged. (Getty Images/Unsplash+)

When men take parental leave, their careers may benefit — but women’s do not

New research using Canadian workplace data finds that men who take six months or more of parental leave are seen as warmer and more leadership-ready by colleagues.
Police clear the campus of Brooklyn College on May 8, 2025, after students established an encampment to protest the Gaza war. Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

Chilling effects of Trump’s war on free speech extend far beyond campus walls – and that’s the point

A persistent government strategy to sow fear through punitive measures has corroded freedom and democracy.
The petrodollar arrangement has underpinned the dollar’s global dominance since the 1970s. The U.S.-Israel war on Iran is straining that arrangement in ways emergency liquidity tools may not be able to fix. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

How the U.S.‑Israel war against Iran is exposing the limits of the petrodollar system

The Iran war is now testing whether the Gulf states that have long recycled their oil revenues into American markets will keep doing so.
A Canadian privacy investigation has forced the World Anti-Doping Agency to restrict how it uses athletes’ data. A lab technician shows a sample to be tested for doping at the lab that did drug testing for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2015. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

How our research led to a privacy complaint that pushed the World Anti‑Doping Agency to change its rules

International sport organizations must stop ignoring athletes’ data protection rights when regulating sport, including eligibility in the women’s category
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks to members and guests of The Harvard Club in New York on March 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Fact check: Pierre Poilievre’s misinformation on Joe Rogan’s podcast disrespects Canadians

By promoting politically expedient misinformation on a show like Joe Rogan’s, Pierre Poilievre appears intent on pushing dangerous and misleading claims that resonate only with his base.
A study found that educators and students in Ontario schools self-censored related to Palestine, fearing punitive measures if they voiced their views freely. (Pexels/Beyzaa Yurtkuran)

People studying to become teachers speak about Islamophobia and anti‑Palestinian racism in Ontario schools

Interviews with people studying to become teachers in Ontario point to the need for systemic changes in schools to better reflect cultural and religious diversity.
Health Canada has begun consultations about using the decisions of foreign drug regulators, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to approve new drugs in Canada. (Unsplash+/Hal Gatewood)

Why drug approval in Canada should not rely on foreign regulators

Before Canada decides to rely on foreign drug regulators to approve new medicines, Health Canada needs to show that it will improve public health.
Research ethics boards are supposed to ensure that, among other things, patients understand the nature of the research and have given informed consent. (Unsplash/Nappy)

In drug trials, lack of oversight of research ethics boards could put Canadian patients at risk

Canada has no accreditation or inspection system for research ethics boards for clinical drug trials, and no oversight mechanism for the way that they undertake reviews.
A fisherman walks across a dry patch of land in the marshes of southern Iraq which has suffered dire consequences from back to back drought and rising salinity levels in Dhi Qar province on Sept. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)

The disasters we talk about shape our priorities and determine our preparedness

From drought to soil degradation and environmental pollution, why does society overlook the most impactful disasters?

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