This article is about the Canadian university. For the British university, see University of York. York University 106,
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Viva Orange from
Downsview Other routes York University (
French:
Université York), located in
Toronto,
Ontario, is
Canada's third-largest university and has produced several of the country's top leaders in the fields of law, politics, business, space sciences, and fine arts. York supports a student population of approximately 50,000 and staff of 7,000, as well as 200,000 alumni worldwide. It is home to 11 faculties, including the
Schulich School of Business,
Osgoode Hall Law School and the
Faculty of Environmental Studies, as well as 23 research centres. A young university, it has been growing over time and gaining international recognition in several fields most notably law and management as reflected by the joint programs it now has with
New York University and
Northwestern University respectively. York University has always enjoyed a strong participation in the Canadian Space Program and the Faculty of Science and Engineering has designed several space research instruments and applications currently used by
NASA.
History York University attracts and grooms some of the most promising students of Canada and has produced the current directors and
CEOs of almost all the major banks in Canada (
Royal Bank of Canada,
Scotiabank,
TD Bank,
BMO), the largest and most prominent media networks in Canada (
CTV,
Rogers Communications,
CBC), and numerous
judges,
diplomats, and senior
politicians including the current
Chief Justice of the
Federal Court of Appeal of Canada, the
Minister of Finance of Canada, the
Attorney General of Ontario, the President of the
Privy Council of Canada and the
Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations.
Astronaut
Steve MacLean was educated at York University in the
physics department and later taught there before going to work at
NASA.
Canada's youngest billionaire,
Alex Shnaider, is also a graduate of York University.
York's approximately 1,350 full-time faculty and academic
librarians are represented by the
York University Faculty Association. Contract faculty, teaching assistants, and graduate assistants are represented by
CUPE Local 3903. Academics York University has eleven faculties. Several of these faculties' programs overlap. The Faculties of
Arts,
Science &
Engineering, Liberal & Professional Studies (Atkinson), and
Glendon College, for instance, each house separate mathematics departments, although some of these are being merged; the
Schulich School of Business (which ranked
1st among Canadian business schools in 2006 by The Economist, The Financial Times, and Forbes and 3rd in the world in a global ranking of
MBA programs conducted by the Aspen and World Resources Institutes, two US think tanks) offers undergraduate and graduate International Business Administration programmes, but the Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies' School of Administrative Studies acts as a completely separate business school, nevertheless both Atkinson and Schulich share many full time professors. Also, Atkinson, Glendon, and Schulich units are offering or are in the processing of preparing to offer degrees in public policy and administration. The University administration has, however, taken steps in some cases to unify departments in separate faculties, in part to support York's efforts to brand itself as a university focused on interdisciplinarity. For example, the Faculty of Health, opened on
1 July 2006, houses the School of Health Policy & Management, School of
Kinesiology and Health Science, School of Nursing, and the Department of
Psychology (one of the largest in North America).
The
Osgoode Hall Law School is one of Canada's oldest and most prestigious law schools, having moved from a downtown location to the York campus in 1969 following the requirement that every law school affiliate with a university. The law school is a top tier internationally recognized institution with several flexible degrees available including the Osgoode-NYU JD/LLB degree in conjunction with
New York University School of Law.
York University offers the first and largest
Graphic Design program in
Ontario (Bachelor of Design Honours degree)
[1]. It is a four-year University degree delivered jointly by the two leading educational institutions of design in Canada, York University and
Sheridan College and recognized throughout North America for maintaining the highest academic and professional standards. The alumni demonstrate the excellence of the program through their placements into top design firms, national and international graduate study programs and their high rate of self-employment. The student's talent and dedication reflects itself at every opportunity. Students have received much recognition in regional, national and international competitions, and with private and government agencies in Canada, the USA and Europe. Retention is the highest in the university, in the mid 90s. Many students have received multiple offers to the leading graduate programs throughout the world in the fields of
Design,
Architecture,
Business,
Law,
Environmental Studies and
Education.
York University's Faculty of
Graduate Studies offers graduate degrees in a variety of disciplines, and there are several joint graduate programs with the
University of Toronto and
Ryerson University.
The
Ph.D. program at York in Social and Political Thought consistently ranks as one of Canada's best PhD programs as reflected by the number of times York U students in this program have won the award for best PhD thesis in Canada. The
School of Women's Studies at York University offers a large array of courses in the field, some of which are offered in French. The
Canadian Centre for Germanic and European Studiesis co-housed at York University and Université de Montréal. The Centre is funded by the
German Academic Exchange Service.
Research Centres & Institutes:
Canadian Centre for German and European Studies, Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry,
Centre for Feminist Research, Centre for International and Security Studies,
Centre for Jewish Studies, Centre for Practical Ethics,
Centre for Public Law and Public Policy, Centre for Refugee Studies,
Centre for Research in Earth and Space Science, Centre for Research in Mass Spectrometry, Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, Centre for Research on Work and Society, Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability, Institute for Research on Learning Technologies,
York Institute for Social Research, The Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption, LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence and Conflict Resolution,
Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York Centre for Asian Research, York Centre for Vision Research, York Institute for Health Research.
York is the only university in Canada to make
Fine Arts its own faculty and has a world class art gallery (
Art Gallery of York University at www.yorku.ca/agyu).The
Faculty of Fine Arts is one of the most competitive in Canada, offering programs such as ethnomusicology and
cultural studies as well as visual arts and music as well as dance and theatre. York's
jazz department is particularly well-reputed and was once overseen by jazz great
Oscar Peterson. York also has a joint Bachelor of Design program with
Sheridan College. York's Departments of Film, Theatre and Creative Writing offer highly competitive programs in
film production/directing, acting, and writing respectively, producing many award-winning graduates. The founder's of Toronto's critically acclaimed
Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival and
CineACTION film theory magazine were graduates of York's Faculty of Fine Arts.
York offers a Space & Communication Sciences undergraduate degree. York's
Centre for Vision Research has developed a '
virtual reality room' called IVY (Immersive Virtual Environment at York) in order to study spatial orientation and
perception of
gravity and
motion. The
Canadian Space Agency and National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) use this room to strengthen astronauts' sense of 'up' and 'down' in zero-gravity environments. The room is a six-sided immersive environment made of the glass used in the
CN Tower's observation deck and includes walls, ceiling, and a floor comprised of computer-generated
pixel maps. York's Faculty of Science and Engineering most recently took part in the 2007
NASA Phoenix Mission to Mars.
York is also the only university in Canada with specialized programs in
meteorological sciences at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
Faculties York's
six libraries contain more than six-and-a-half million items including more than two million books and subscriptions to over 13,000 electronic journals. Scott Library is the largest of these and houses collections in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts. Science-related items are at the Steacie Science Library, while the
Osgoode Hall Law School houses the largest law library in the
Commonwealth. The Leslie Frost library is located at
Glendon College and houses collections in all disciplines with a significant proportion of research materials in the French language. The Peter F. Bronfman Business Library, in addition to print materials, gives access to dozens of e-resources such as the
Bloomberg Terminal. Finally, the
Clara Thomas Archives contains the literary and personal papers of many notable Canadian cultural figures such as
Margaret Laurence,
Rohinton Mistry,
Adele Wiseman,
bill bissett, and others. The
Government of Ontario announced in December 2006 that it would relocate the
Archives of Ontario from rented facilities on Grenville Street to the Keele campus. A new building will house the archives and provide room for university researchers. The building is scheduled for completion in 2009.
Libraries The University is represented in
Canadian Interuniversity Sport by the
York Lions. Beginning in 1968 York's sporting teams were known as the "
Yeomen", after the
Yeomen Warders, the guardians of the fortress and palace at the
Tower of London, otherwise known as Beefeaters. Later, the name "Yeowomen" was introduced to encourage women to participate in sports, as "Yeomen" was deemed to be gender-specific. Popular sentiment ran against this name scheme, however, as many students were fond of noting that a "Yeowoman" was fictitious, neither a real word nor having any historical merit. In 2003, after conducting an extensive internal study, the University replaced both names with the "Lions", as part of a larger re-branding effort, and a new logo, now a white and red lion, was brought into line with the university's new visual scheme. The name change also brought York University in line with the 92% of other Canadian universities which use a single name for both genders' sports teams. Ironically, students often refer to the female Lions teams as the "York Lionesses", despite the fact that the name "Lion" is intended to apply to both genders.
[2] SportYork offers 29 interuniversity sport teams, 12 sport clubs, 35 intramural sport leagues, special events and 10 pick-up sport activities offered daily.
York U has several athletic facilities, some of which are used for major tournaments. These include a football stadium, 4 gymnasia, 5 sport playing fields, 4 softball fields, 9 outdoor tennis courts, 5 squash courts, 3 dance/aerobic studios, an ice arena, a swimming pool, an expanding fitness centre and the new
Rexall Centre (home of the
Rogers Tennis Cup).
In 2005, plans were made to build a new football and soccer stadium to host the
Toronto Argonauts of the
Canadian Football League as well as future football tournaments. These plans were scuttled, however, when a deal was signed by the Argos to remain at the
Rogers Centre. York's proximity to many of Toronto's cricket-playing communities and role as host of an annual "
York is U" cricket tournament has led to speculation that the university might act as a permanent home for
Canada's cricket program.
Athletics Keele Campus, York's primary campus, is located in
North York and most of the University's faculties reside here. The Schulich School of Business and Osgoode Hall Law School each have a satellite campus in the business district of Toronto, however. That of Schulich is the Miles S. Nadal Management Centre, and that of Osgoode Hall Law School is the Professional Development Centre and is located in the Dundas West Tower at the
Toronto Eaton Centre.
Glendon College, a bilingual liberal arts faculty which conducts its own recruitment and admissions and hosts its own academic programs, is also housed on its own campus on Bayview Avenue in North Toronto. Glendon is the only university-level institution in Southern Ontario that offers university courses in both
French and
English; others elsewhere in Ontario include the
University of Ottawa and
Laurentian University in
Sudbury. A shuttle bus runs regularly between the Glendon and the Keele campuses.
Campuses 
Major buildings (Keele Campus) The Accolade Project comprises two new buildings, Accolade East and Accolade West, which frame the existing Fine Arts complex on the south side of The Common at the heart of York University's Keele campus. The new structures offer a wide range of academic, exhibition and performance facilities for teaching, learning, research, creative work and public presentation. The Accolade Project offers state-of-the-art facilities for Canada's future artists and performers, and has been billed as the new flagship centre for fine arts education in the GTA. Complementing the facilities of the Faculty of Fine Arts in the Joan & Martin Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts, Burton Auditorium, the Centre for Film and Theatre, and the Technology-Enhanced Learning Building, Accolade brings all seven fine arts departments together in one dynamic cluster as the cultural hub of the campus.
Accolade East and West Both the Department of Music and the Department of Dance have a new home with dedicated, state-of-the-art facilities in Accolade East. The celebrated Art Gallery of York University has also moved into Accolade East. Located east of the Centre for Film and Theatre, facing the Schulich School of Business, Accolade East features extensive exhibition and performing arts facilities, The Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre, and The Recital Hall, including the main box office, as well as classrooms and an open-access, 24-hour computer lab serving the entire university.
Accolade East Located north of the Joan & Martin Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts and adjacent to Burton Auditorium, Accolade West is used by students from across the university. A four-storey building dedicated primarily to academic studies, the building houses a full roster of 'smart' classrooms, seminar rooms and computer labs ranging in capacity from 40 to 400 seats, all featuring a full complement of cutting-edge technology, clear sightlines and accessible seating. The spacious main floor lobby, enhanced by a soaring atrium spanning the entire height of the building, offers a welcoming entrance into the Fine Arts complex. It houses the student-run gallery of the Department of Visual Arts as well as two new studios for the Fine Arts Cultural Studies program in the Faculty of Fine Arts.
Accolade West The Curtis Lecture Halls and Ross Building was once the entrance or main door of York University from the 1960s until the opening of
Vari Hall in 1992.
Curtis Lecture Halls is a 3-4 floor complex of lecture halls of varying sizes built in 1971. Connected through a hallway, to the east of the halls is the Ross Building, containing offices of professors, faculty offices and the Senate. Curtis Lecture Halls was named for Air Vice-Marshal Wilfrid A. Curtis, founding organizing committee and first Chancellor of York (1959-1968).
The Ross building opened in 1966 is named for the late
Dr. Murray G. Ross, founding president of York (1960-1970) and law professor at the
University of Toronto. It was originally called Humanities and Social Sciences building .
Curtis Lecture Halls and the Ross Building Vari Hall is a building primarily containing lecture rooms. Built in 1992 by
Raymond Moriyama, a $2 million donation and other cost were covered by George and Helen Vari, Hungarian refugees and businesspersons. The 3 storey rotunda of the hall has become a meeting place for students and, occasionally, protestors.
The building looks out towards the
York Commons, a park at the university. Prior to the Hall's construction, a massive ramp provided access to the Ross Building from the Commons. York's crest adorns the outer face of the rotunda.
Vari Hall York Commons is a park enclosed by the main buildings at York, including:
A roadway circulating the park and the buildings serves solely for use by TTC, VIVA, YRT and GO buses. In the future, the commons will feature a subway stop from the new Spadina subway line extension. A shallow pool, often the temporary home to Canada Geese and ducks, and a fountain are also located in the tree-lined park.
Student Centre Vari Hall
York University Student Centre (for which the architect received a Governor General's award and the Award of Excellence from The Canadian Architect)
York Lanes - retail mall, book store and office space for teaching staff
Centre for Film and Theatre
Accolade East and Accolade West
York Commons York Lanes is a two storey mall at the Keele campus of York University in
Toronto, Ontario.
The lower level has restaurants and retail stores including the York University Bookstore at the East end. Also housed in the mall is the Campus Cove (an arcade/
LAN gaming centre/pool hall) and the on-campus medical office. Offices for faculty of various departments as well as various student groups are located on the second floor.
The layout of the mall is rectangular (long in the East-West direction). It is divided into three sections (arbitrarily based on the bends of the corridor, and not on any other difference between the sections or their contents). One main corridor runs along its length. Slightly diagonal towards the South-West corner at the start (the West Market), then East-West (The Main Wing), and finally turning south for a short span at the East end (the East Market). There is one branch off to a North exit where the West Market meets the Main Wing (where the corridor bends), and there is also a door to a narrow passageway at the West end (just adjacent to the bookstore and opposite the main East exit) to another back exit to the North.
York Lanes Prior to 1989, membership in a
fraternity or sorority at York University was forbidden. In 1989, the related senate resolution was revoked and replaced with
Presidential Regulation Number 5 which does not forbid membership but rather denies official status to fraternities and sororities at York University. The reasons given in this regulation are that fraternities and sororities deflect students from participation in the College system, that their commitment to exclusivity is in conflict with York's principles of inclusivity (no student club is allowed to deny membership except on the grounds of major, for those organisations with representation to their department), and are often associated with inappropriate conduct. Over the years, however, four fraternities and three sororities have operated, unofficially, on campus:
Fraternities: Sororities: Phi Delta Phi (ΦΔΦ) international legal fraternity, at
Osgoode Law School, was given special dispensation when the law school became part of the university, as the fraternity's history with the law school dated back to 1896, and is recognized at York.
Alpha Epsilon Pi (ΑΕΠ) -
(Eta Pi Chapter - York University) Phi Delta Theta (ΦΔΘ) -
(Ontario Delta Chapter - York University) Phi Kappa Pi (ΦΚΠ) -
(Sigma Pi Chapter - York University) Sigma Alpha Mu (ΣΑΜ) -
(Gamma Omicron Chapter - York University) Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ) -
[3] Delta Pi (ΔΠ) -
(Local) Sigma Delta Tau (ΣΔΤ) - Gamma Omicron Chapter (inactive)
Fraternities and Sororities York is Canada's largest university, with over 50,000 students enrolled. Most students come from the Greater Toronto Area, but there is a sizeable population of students from across Canada and abroad. To serve this large population, there are 225 student clubs and organisations; two student-run publications and three broadcast programs; six art galleries; 33 on-campus eateries; and a retail mall. Undergraduate students at York are represented by the
York Federation of Students, a student-elected body that sponsors most of the clubs and engages in lobbying with the university administration and the
provincial and
federal governments. While the YFS is one of the largest student associations in Canada (by virtue of York's large undergraduate population), it has often come under fire for being too political rather than focusing on student specific issues.
Students York has nine undergraduate
residential colleges:
--Also, for a bit of trivia, the different houses that make up Founders Residence are actually named after the Group of Seven (Varley House, Harris House, etc.), or as the plaque at the building says, 'The Founders of Canadian Art."
Atkinson 1961- named after
The Toronto Star founding publisher
Joseph E. Atkinson Bethune 1970 - named after Dr.
Norman Bethune Calumet 1970 - a native nations word for "Peacepipe"
Founders 1965 - named after the founders of the university
Glendon 1966 - a combination of "glen", meaning "valley", and "Don" for the Don River.
McLaughlin 1968 - after
Samuel McLaughlin, patron and manufacturer. (The affiliated residence, Tatham Hall, is named for a former Master of the College and Professor
George Tatham.
[4].)
Stong 1970 - named after the family on whose land is the main campus
Vanier 1965 - named after Governor General
Georges Vanier Winters 1968 - named after former federal
cabinet Minister Robert Winters Colleges Arts (AS)
[5] Atkinson Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies (AK)
[6] Education (ED)
Environmental Studies (ES)
[7] Fine Arts (FA)
[8] Glendon College (GL)
Graduate Studies (GS)
Health (HH)
[9] Osgoode Hall Law School (OS)
Schulich School of Business (SB)
Science and Engineering (SC)
[10] York University &
Sheridan College Bachelors of Design Honours (YSDN)
[11] Faculties and abbreviations The Keele campus is host to a satellite facility of Seneca College,
Seneca@York, and York University offers a number of joint programs with Seneca College:
School of Communication Arts
Computer Studies
Biological Science and Applied Chemistry
Corporate and Technical Communications
Seneca@York Main articles: York University (YRT), York University (GO Station), and York University (TTC) Transit A tradition of activist politics on campus has resulted in vocal demonstrations, particularly concerning issues relating to the
Middle East and economic
globalization. There have been criticisms of both activist groups by the administration and media, for disrupting classes and provoking confrontations between students, and of the university administration for its response to demonstrators and activists, including expulsion and alleged police misconduct against activists.
As well, a controversy arose in 2005 regarding the sale of university land for a nearby townhouse development, and whether the developer, Tribute Communities, paid the full market price for the land. York University maintained that it was the best overall proposal. An independent investigation conducted by retired judge Edward Saunders verified that there had been no misconduct.
In October 2005, Professor
David F. Noble, in opposition to York's practice of cancelling classes on the Jewish
High Holidays, which originated in 1974 in deference to the university's large proportion of Jewish students and faculty members at that time, applied to the university's
senate body for review of the policy. Upon the York senate's affirmation of the policy, he pledged that he would teach on those days anyway, but later decided to instead poll students in his courses, asking if they wished future classes to be cancelled out of respect for other religious holidays.
On
March 31,
2006, in the case of
Freeman-Maloy v. Marsden, the
Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that the University, and its President Dr.
Lorna Marsden could be sued by plaintiff Daniel Freeman-Maloy for "misfeasance in public office."
[12] Additional controversies are published in the official memoir of Murray Ross, the university's first president. (See 'References' section below.)
Controversies Murray G. Ross 1959-1970
David Slater 1970-1973
H. Ian Macdonald 1973-1984
Harry W. Arthurs 1985-1992
Susan Mann 1993-1997
Lorna Marsden 1997 - 2007
Mamdouh Shoukri 2007 - present
Presidents Wilfred A. Curtis, RCAF air marshal, 1959-1968
Floyd S. Chalmers, publisher, 1968-1973
Walter L. Gordon, federal cabinet minister, 1973-1977
John P. Robarts, premier of Ontario, 1977-1982
John S. Proctor, banker, 1982-1983
J. Tuzo Wilson, geophysicist, 1983-1986
Larry Clarke, founder of SPAR Aerospace, 1986-1991
Oscar Peterson, jazz piano great, 1991-1994
Arden Haynes, businessman, 1994-1998
Avie J. Bennett, businessman, 1998-2004
Peter deCarteret Cory, jurist, 2004-Present
Chancellors This list includes graduates of Osgoode Hall Law School prior to its affiliation with York University.
Noted alumni John Black Aird - former
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Maurizio Bevilacqua - former federal Minister and
Secretary of State for Canada
Marion Boyd - former
Attorney General of Ontario Michael Bryant - Attorney-General of Ontario
David Collenette - former senior federal cabinet minister
George Drew - 14th
Premier of Ontario Bill Davis - 18th Premier of Ontario
Ernie Eves - 23rd Premier of Ontario
Gordon O'Connor -
Minister of National Defence of Canada
Jim Flaherty -
Minister of Finance of Canada
Herb Gray - former
Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, former
Solicitor General of Canada Barbara Hall - former Mayor of Toronto, current Chief Commissioner of the
Ontario Human Rights Commission Charles Harnick - former Attorney General of Ontario
Ron Irwin - former Federal Cabinet Minister, former Ambassador to Ireland, current Consul to Boston
Jack Layton - Leader of the federal
New Democratic Party Floyd Laughren - former Ontario NDP MPP and finance minister
John Robarts - 17th Premier of Ontario
William Ross Macdonald - former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
Roy McMurtry - former Attorney General of Ontario
Ian Scott - former Attorney General of Ontario
Greg Sorbara -
Ontario Minister of Finance Karen Sloan Kroft - former
United Nations Ambassador of the environment
Robert Stanley Welch - former Deputy Premier of Ontario, Former Attorney General of Ontario
John Tory - Leader of the
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario Michael Tziretas - Toronto city councillor
Peter Van Loan -
President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
David Young - former Attorney General of Ontario
John McNee - Canadian
ambassador to
United Nations Politicians Colonel Kim Carter - Chief Military Judge, National Defence Canada
Peter Cory - former puisne judge of the
Supreme Court of Canada and current Chancellor of the university
Frank Joseph Hughes - former puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Canada
Wilfred Judson - former puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Canada
Patrick Kerwin - former
Chief Justice of Canada Bora Laskin - former Chief Justice of Canada
John Robert Cartwright - former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Wishart Spence - former puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Canada
Roy McMurtry -
Chief Justice of Ontario Frederick E. Gibson - Federal Court judge
James O'Reilly - Federal Court judge
John D. Richard - Chief Justice of the
Federal Court of Appeal of Canada
Allen Linden - Federal Court of Appeal judge
Dennis O'Connor - of the
Ontario Court of Appeal and Associate Chief Justice of Ontario
Judges Rob McEwen - President and CEO of
US Gold Corporation Ivan Fecan - President and
Chief Executive Officer,
CTV Richard E. Waugh - President and Chief Executive Officer,
Scotiabank Ellis Jacob - President and CEO,
Cineplex Entertainment Moya Greene - President and Chief Executive Officer of
Canada Post Edward Samuel Rogers - business tycoon, President and CEO
Rogers Communications Michael Eisen - Chief Legal Officer,
Microsoft Canada
Janice Fukausa - Chief Financial Officer,
Royal Bank of Canada Bernd Christmas - Board of Directors,
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Arthur R.A. Scace,
QC - Board of Directors,
Scotiabank Kathleen Taylor - President, Worldwide Business Operations,
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts Bill Hatanaka - Group Head Wealth Management & Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
TD Waterhouse,
TD Bank Financial Group Paul Tsaparis, President of
Hewlett - Packard Canada
Roma Khanna - named to Canada's "
Top 40 Under 40", VP
Chum Television Toronto, MBA York (Schulich)
Colleen Johnston - Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer,
TD Bank Financial Group Bharat Masrani - Vice Chair and Chief Risk Officer,
TD Bank Financial Group Dina Palozzi - Executive Vice-President,
BMO Nesbitt Burns and Senior Vice-President & Chief Privacy Officer,
BMO Financial Group Larry Organ - Chief Executive Officer,
ConsumerBase LLC, Founder of
FastWeb and JobsOnline
Paul Alofs - President and CEO of Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation
Peter Currie - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer,
Nortel Mark Guibert - Vice-President, Corporate Marketing,
Research In Motion Alex Shnaider - Chairman of Royal Laser Corp. and co-founder of Midland Group
Midland Group, Canada's youngest billionaire
Jordan Banks - Managing Director of
e-Bay Canada, named to Canada's Top 40 Under 40 (LL.B. Osgoode)
Lucianna Furtado - Vice-President, Controller International Operations,
Citigroup Inc. Phillip Gestrin - Executive Director, Global Equities,
Lehman Brothers Priscila David - Vice-President of Systems Engineering,
Cisco Systems Canada
Linda Krieger - Vice-President, Compensation Design and Services,
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Dennis Fotinos - President and CEO,
Enwave Engergy Corporation Rajan Ariyur - Director of Securitization,
CIBC World Markets
Isabel Bassett - former
MPP and
Chief Executive Officer of
TVOntario Business Leaders Murat Akser - film director, cultural historian
Christian Bök - poet
Debra Brown - head choreographer for the
Cirque de Soleil Amnon Buchbinder - filmmaker
Rudy Buttignol - former Chair of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, founder of International
Hot Docs film festival, former creative head of
TVO Joel Cohen - writer for
The Simpsons Michael Davey - sculptor and faculty member
Robert Duncan - composer
Mark Irwin - cinematographer (
Me, Myself & Irene,
Scream,
There's Something About Mary)
Michael Sparaga - filmmaker
Kardinal Offishall -
Canadian Musician
k-os (Kheaven Brereton) -
Canadian musician
Ringo Lam -
Hong Kong action director, inspired
Quentin Tarantino's
Reservoir Dogs Orville Lloyd Douglas - poet/writer
Peter Lynch - filmmaker (
Project Grizzly)
Rachel McAdams - actress (
Mean Girls,
The Wedding Crashers)
Steve McCaffery - poet
Paul P. - visual artist (homoerotic drawings inspired
Hedi Slimane's Dior Homme ad campaign)
Steven Page - musician, lead singer for the
Barenaked Ladies Mark Penney - film director
Keanu Reeves - actor (part-time student)
Nino Ricci - writer,
Governor General's Award for Fiction
Spencer Rice - actor/director (
Kenny vs. Spenny)
Peter Robinson -
English-born Canadian-based detective novelist
Albert Schultz - actor
Sarah Slean - singer-songwriter
Ron Sparks - comedian/actor/writer, (
Video on Trial)
Scott Thompson - comedian/actor, (
The Kids in the Hall,
The Larry Sanders Show,
My Fabulous Gay Wedding)
Bruce LaBruce - Underground Filmmaker and icon of the gay arts community (JD's, Vinyl)
Scientists Karen Cockburn - Olympic Medallist, trampoline (Silver in 2004, Bronze in 2000)
Mathieu Turgeon - Olympic Medallist, trampoline (Bronze in 2000)
Richard Van Huizen - Olympic volleyball player
Trish Stratus - Former professional
World Wrestling Entertainment wrestler
Jeff Johnson - Professional Football Player (Currently playing for the CFL's
Toronto Argonauts)
Carlos Newton - Mixed Martial Artist
Athletes Barbara Budd - award-winning senior journalist with the
CBC Nancy Durham -
journalist and foreign corespondent for the
CBC, married to Oxford philosopher Bill Newton-Smith
Ken Daniels - former
Hockey Night in Canada host, current
Detroit Red Wings commentator on
FSN Detroit Melissa DiMarco - tv personality and actress. has her own show and a role on
Degrassi Brian Milner - senior columnist for the
Globe and Mail Jian Ghomeshi -
CBC host, musician, writer and producer
Hazel Mae, news anchor and personality on
NESN in
Boston, Massachusetts.
Beatrice Politi - political specialist on
CP24 in
Ottawa Sandie Rinaldo - award-winning
CTV news anchor for all of Canada
Mike Sheerin -
Gemini nominated documentary producer and director,
Secret Mulroney Tapes Paula Todd - award-winning
journalist and host of
TVOntario's
Person to Person and
CTV's The Verdict
Chantal Hebert - award-winning
journalist for The Toronto Star as well as Le Devoir and National Post among others, and commentator on Canadian politics, appears often on
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Michael Jenkinson - feature film executive for
Telefilm Canada, former Hollywood producer
Jacintha Wesselingh - reporter for
CTV News Toronto
Michael Hirsh and
Patrick Loubert - founders of
Nelvana international animation company based in Toronto (
Babar,
Hergé's Adventures of Tintin,
Bob and Margaret)
Other Irving Abella, history
Louise Arbour, professor of Law, currently
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Christopher Armstrong (professor), history
Harry Arthurs,
law and former President of York University
Paul Axelrod,
education Joel Bakan, law, author of
The Corporation Heather Monroe-Blum, currently the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of
McGill University Hédi Bouraoui,
French and
English literature Rob Bowman,
ethnomusicology Castelo Branco, Professor of
Theology Ed Broadbent (1960s) - former leader of the federal
New Democratic Party Jean-Gabriel Castel - Professor Emeritus of Law
Jerome Ch'en - Professor Emeritus of History
Lorraine Code - Professor of Philosophy
G. Ramsay Cook - Professor Emeritus of History
Robert W. Cox - political scientist, founder of
Neo-Gramscianism Andrea Davis - Professor of Humanities, Latin American Caribbean Studies, History, English
Christopher Dewdney - author, Professor of English Literature
Bernie Frolic - Professor, Chinese Studies, noted China Theorist
Stephen Gill - Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, theorist of
International Political Economy R. Darren Gobert - Professor of Drama in the Department of English.
Barbara Godard - Professor of English and the Avie Bennett Historica Chair in Canadian Literature.
Jack Granatstein - Professor Emeritus of History
Leslie Green, Professor, Law, Philosophy, and Social and Political Thought, also holds permanent Chair in Jurisprudence at the
University of Oxford Christopher D. Green, Professor of Psychology and Philosophy, President-elect of the
Society for the History of Psychology (
APA Division 26)
John Greyson - film director
Stephen Hellman - author, Professor of European Politics
Phil Hoffman - independent experimental filmmaker
Peter Hogg - Professor Emeritus of Law , constitutional expert, former Dean of Osgoode
Michiel Horn - Professor Emeritus of History, University Historian
Ian P. Howard - Founder of the Centre for Vision Research, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Biology
Carl E. James - Professor, Faculty of Education
John Katz - professor of film, film ethicist, organizer of
Toronto Jewish Film Festival Ali Kazimi - filmmaker
Gabriel Kolko - Professor Emeritus of History
Paul Laurendeau - Professor, Department of French Studies, linguist and language philosopher
James Laxer - author, columnist and commentator, Professor of Canadian Politics
Jack Layton - leader of the
New Democratic Party Lee Lorch - Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, civil rights activist
Bernard Luk - Professor of History and Vice-President of
Hong Kong Institute of Education Edelgard Mahant, political science
Tom McElroy - Senior Research Scientist and Head of Space Research Section at
Environment Canada, also professor of Physics & Astronomy at York University, winner of several science awards and developer of atmospheric instruments used by
NASA Kenneth McRoberts - Professor of Political Science and current Principal of
Glendon College Patrick J. Monahan - Professor of Law
H. Vivian Nelles - Professor Emeritus of History
Jonathan Nitzan - Professor of Political Economy
David F. Noble - Historian of Technology
Michael Ondaatje - author and filmmaker, Professor of English Literature
Ferdinand Ouellet - Professor Emeritus of History
John O'Neill - Distinguished Research Professor, Sociology
Michael D. Ornstein - Professor of Sociology
Leo Panitch - Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, editor of the
Socialist Register Andreas Papandreou - Greek Prime Minister, Economics Professor (1969-1974)
Sergei M. Plekhanov - Professor of Political Science, member of Soviet Academy of Sciences
B. W. Powe - Professor of English
Fahim Quadir - Professor of International Development Studies
Anthony Richmond - Professor Emeritus of Sociology
John Ridpath - Objectivist philosopher and retired Associate Professor of Economics and Intellectual History
Paul Roazen - Professor Emeritus of Social and Political Science, founder of meta-psychotherapy
L. S. Rosen - Professor Emeritus of Accounting, one of Canada's leading forensic accountants
J.T. Saywell - Professor Emeritus of History
Paul Stevens - Professor of History
Orest Subtelny Professor of History
John K. Tsotsos - Director, Centre for Vision Research, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Canada Research Chair in Computational Vision
Livio (Livy) Visano - Associate Professor of Sociology
Ellen Wood - historian and critic of political theory
Neal Wood - historian
Robin Wood - Professor Emeritus of Film and Video, famous film critic
Alan Young - Professor of Law (LL.B. Osgoode, LL.M. Harvard)
Edward Hagerman - Military Historian
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