A baby in neonatal intensive care, a mother receiving treatment for cancer, a grandfather recovering from a stroke – the Hats on for Healthcare program helps them all, says Pat Roberts.
An administrative assistant in Facility Services, she will join people all across the city wearing hats of all kinds on February 15 to solicit donations to the Windsor Regional Hospital Foundation. The foundation supports programs from paediatrics to oncology, mental health to surgery.
The English Undergraduate Student Association and Generation magazine are looking for submissions for their upcoming zine, Salt.
Think of blood, sweat, tears, oceans, salt mines and table shakers; anything your mind can create!
The editors will accept up to five pages double-spaced of prose, poetry or artwork on the theme and especially encourage submissions from new Canadian writers of all ages and backgrounds.
Do you know students who go the extra mile for others? Perhaps one has shown sincere empathy and support for one or more students during difficult times – or just gives to others in an on-going way.
AfroFest, the African Diaspora Festival, continues Thursday and Friday with events to stimulate all the senses.
Thursday at 4 p.m. in the CAW Student Centre Commons, the festival will feature a series of performances – from story-telling to music, dance and African drumming.
On Friday, February 10, organizers offer Taste of the Diaspora, a chance to sample foods from around the world sharing a common African heritage. Starts at 4 p.m., also in the CAW Student Centre Commons.
While there is variation between regions, overall Arab women remain near the bottom globally on a variety of indicators, says Adrien Wing.
She will discuss civil and political rights as well as economic, social and cultural rights in her free public lecture, “The Arab Season: The Future of Women’s Rights,” Friday, February 10, at 1 p.m. in the law building’s Moot Court.
The Bessie Dutton Murray Professor at the University of Iowa’s College of Law, Wing will focus on the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.
The School of Music is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win two free tickets to the faculty concert “Chamber Ensembles and Electronics,” Saturday, February 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Assumption University Chapel.
Admission is $15, with a student rate of $5. Tickets are available at the door or in advance by phone at 519-253-3000, ext. 4212, or online at www.uwindsor.ca/music. Find more information on the music Web site.
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit remains in the vanguard of civilian oversight of police in Canada, says outreach coordinator Jasbir Brar.
When police officers are involved in incidents where someone has been seriously injured, dies or alleges sexual assault, the SIU has the statutory mandate to conduct independent investigations to determine whether a criminal offence took place.
Artists work in a number of capacities – as educators, administrators, organizers and activists to list just a few.
A panel of three leading Canadian artists will speak about their experiences juggling multiple roles and maintaining their art practices while building community and mobilizing discussions through their “day jobs” as cultural workers and organizers.
The Humanities Research Group presents Domenico Pietropaolo delivering a free public lecture entitled “Text and the Impromptu Tradition,” Thursday, February 9, at 7 p.m. in Assumption University’s Freed-Orman Centre.
Dr. Pietropaolo is principal of St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto, holds the Goggio Chair in Italian Studies and is chair of the Italian studies department. He is also a professor of drama and is cross-appointed to the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, the Centre for Comparative Literature and the Centre for Medieval Studies.
A PhD student who came to Canada in 1883 was so inspired by how settlers were dealing with Aboriginal peoples in the west that he travelled home to Germany to convince authorities there to use the same methods with Poles who had settled in the eastern part of their country, according to History professor Rob Nelson.
