Ontario Tech Faculty of Social Science and Humanities
55 Bond Street East L1G 0A5 Oshawa, ON, Canada

Students: Our next Connection Cafe hosted by Ontario Tech University - SSH Academic Advising is entitled, "Racial discrimination: Defining it, detecting it, and reducing it." Join Ontario Tech University Associate Teaching Professor Dr. Tim MacNeill as he discusses privilege, his research involving marginalized communities and provides opportunities for open dialogue about this important topic. Here are all topics by date and Google Meet links: https://bit.ly/3m4pHhw

Our virtual event in collaboration with Oshawa Public Library is one week from today! Hear Dr. Steven Hayle discuss innovative practices used abroad to address the opioid crisis and what Canadian support programs can learn as we watch the opioid overdose death rate rise during the COVID-19 pandemic. Have you registered yet?

Discover your home away from home at Ontario Tech’s Virtual Open House on Saturday November 21. Join us from 1 to 4 p.m. to meet and chat with faculty and students from our Communication and Digital Media Studies, Criminology and Justice, Psychology (General and Forensic), Legal Studies, Liberal Studies and Political Science programs. You can also chat with us about:... First year courses Experiential learning opportunities Labs We can’t wait to connect with you! Register to receive the link to join at www.ontariotechu.ca/openhouse

Dr. Andrea Braithwaite's work defining a new kind of detective in pop culture -- the "chick" detective -- is one of the articles selected for the very first issue of Mean Streets: A Journal of American Crime and Detective Fiction. In her piece, "Janet Evanovich and the Rise of the Chick Detective," Dr. Braithwaite looks at what happens when chick lit meets the hardboiled mystery, and what this tells us about gender, genre, and crime. Check it out here: https://press.pace.edu/journals/mean-streets/

Broken Hearts, Empty Shoes/Cœurs brisés, chaussures vides Canadians for Long-Term Care Standards, a day to honour those we have lost and support the federal government in creating national standards with the provinces and territories. We will have a small group (no more than 25 people in person) attending at Parliament Hill in Ottawa on November 19, 2020 for a demonstration in support of national standards for long-term care, and to honour those we have lost in long-term care... across Canada. The event will begin at 11:30 and will be live streamed for safety reasons due to COVID-19 (details to follow), ending between 12:30 and 1:00. We will be laying out thousands of empty shoes across the lawn of Parliament Hill to honour those we have lost due to COVID-19 in Canadian long-term care homes. We know that many people across Canada have experienced systemic issues in long-term care for much longer than this pandemic, but we have seen COVID-19 ravage our long-term care homes in a big way, bringing these issues front and centre. We need better care for the most vulnerable members of our population. The time is now. You can livestream the event on facebook: https://fb.me/e/2ZO2kf

Students: This week's Connection Cafe is about exam preparation strategies! Join via Google Meet this Thursday at 2PM. View the full schedule of Connection Cafe topics with links here: https://bit.ly/3m4pHhw

Another panelist has been added to this event that takes place in an hour. To register, email them at [email protected].