It is my pleasure to congratulate Ms. Karen Schucher on successfully defending her dissertation “Coercing Justice? Exploring the ‘Aspirations and Practice’ of Law as a Tool in Struggles against Social Inequalities” on October 29th. 2014. Karen is a full-time faculty member who teaches in both our Paralegal diploma and degree programs.

Karen’s dissertation explores the history of human rights legislation and its enforcement in Ontario, from the fair practices statutes passed in the 1940s and 1950s through the 2006 overhaul of the enforcement system. This overhaul established “direct access” to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and eliminated the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s complaints-resolution role. The dissertation focuses on questions about the role of legislated norms and legal enforcement processes as tools in struggles against social inequality, in general, and discrimination, in particular.

Karen’s supervisor is Prof. Mary Jane Mossman, who is a Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School. Prof. Mossman is a leading scholar in a number of law and social inequality areas, including access to justice and legal aid, feminist legal theory, and women and the law/legal professions. Prof. Mossman has also been involved in a wide range of professional and community activities, including on a variety of issues relating to legal aid and access to justice. She has been awarded an honorary doctorate of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Medal of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Award of Excellence of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers, a Canadian Bar Association (Ontario) Distinguished Service Award, and the annual award of the Advocacy Resource Centre for the Handicapped.

Karen’s PhD is in Law from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. Not surprising, Karen’s dissertation was passed with no revisions, and with a recommendation that it be this year’s Osgoode Hall Law School nomination for a York University dissertation prize.

Karen is a passionate professor who has taught in the Business School since 2003. Congratulations Karen on successfully defending your dissertation.

Alvina Cassiani, Ph.D.
Dean, The Business School

Dear Humber Stakeholder,

The North Campus Backfill space request and planning process is now starting!

The goal is to develop a Backfill Plan that describes how the College will reallocate approximately 100,000 square feet of space that will become vacant once existing functions and services re-locate to the new LRC Building and F Building addition.

The Backfill Plan represents a significant opportunity for the College to create a better North Campus in terms of meeting growing needs for space, and, in particular, in terms of re-allocating existing spaces to uses that foster synergies, visibility or efficiencies in existing buildings that in some cases have not changed since they were built.

You will receive communication shortly from your Vice President with detailed information on the Backfill planning process, application procedures and forms, and coordination of submissions within your division.

Thank you for your support!
Backfill Steering Committee Co-Chairs

Elaine Popp, Associate Vice President, Academic
416 675 6622 ext.4570
Elaine.Popp@humber.ca

Jane Rowbotham, Director of Facilities
416 675 6622 ext.4275
Jane.Rowbotham@humber.ca

HUMBER INTERFAITH CALENDAR
MULTIFAITH HOLY DAYS & FESTIVALS
NOVEMBER 2014 :CALENDAR & DESCRIPTIONS

In the spirit of diversity and inclusion, we provide the following Multifaith Holy Days & Festivals realizing that it is not exhaustive. Should you wish your faith’s days to be included, please contact the Chaplain at x 4427 or chaplain@humber.ca for due consideration.

01 Saturday 
November: National Native Month (Canada); 
Aboriginal Education Month (Humber College)
November = Bashkakodini-Giizis (Aboriginal-Ojibwe)
Water Freezing Moon 
All Saints’ Day (Christianity) 
Honours known and unknown saints throughout the history of Christianity.

02 Sunday
End of Daylight Savings Time (Canada)
All Souls Day (Christianity-Catholicism) 
A day for prayers of intercession by the living faithful to help cleanse the souls of those departed.

03 Monday
Ashura (Islam)
Commemorates the martyrdom of Husain (Prophet Mohammad’s grandson) observed by Shi’ites on the 10th day of Muharram.

04 Tuesday
Qudrat (Power) (Baha’i) 
Qudrat, meaning Power, is the thirteenth month of the Baha’i year.

06 Thursday
Full Moon The moon is at its greatest visibility.
Birth of Guru Nanak Dev Ji (Sikhism-Bikarami) 
The founder of the Sikh faith and the first of the Ten Gurus, was born in 1469 CE. An accomplished poet, 974 of his hymns are in the Sikh scriptures, the Guru Granth Sahib.

Lokasha Jayanti (Jainism) 
The full moon of the calendar’s first month is a time to celebrate the births of revered and scholarly persons, the most famous of whom is the 15th Century reformer Lonka Saha whose opposition to temple worship and the use of images led to the founding of the Sthanakavasi sect, which emphasizes scholarship.

11 Tuesday
Remembrance Day ceremonies (Humber College campuses)
Ceremonies are held at each main campus to honour Canadian soldiers who fought in the two World Wars and other conflicts. This Memorial day is observed in Commonwealth countries, since the end of World War I, to remember the members of their armed forces who died in the line of duty.

12 Wednesday
Birth of Baha'u'llah (Baha'i) 
The birth of the founder of the Baha’i faith; Baha’is suspend work on this day.

15 Saturday
Shichi-Go-San (Shinto) 
Prayers are offered for the growth and long life of younger children. They dress up and their parents take them to a shrine to visit a guardian deity.

22 Saturday
New Moon The moon is at its least visibility.

23 Sunday
Qawl (Speech) (Baha’i)
Qawl, meaning Speech, is the fourteenth month of the Baha’i year.

24 Monday
Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur (Sikhism) 
Commemorates the death of the ninth Guru who is remembered for his defense of the Sikh faith and also of Hinduism and religious liberty.

25 Tuesday
St. Catherine's Day (Christianity-Catholic) 
Commemorates a Christian martyr of Alexandria in the 4th century A.D.

26 Wednesday
The Day of the Covenant (Baha’i) 
Anniversary of the appointment of Abdul-Baha, the son of Baha’u’llah, as the Centre of the Covenant.

28 Friday
The Ascension of ‘Abdul-Baha (Baha’i)
Commemorates the death of ‘Abdul-Baha who guarded the unity of the Baha’I faith.

30 Sunday
First Sunday of Advent (Christianity-Western) 
Begins the four-week preparation for Christmas (Advent refers to the coming birth, or arrival, of Christ).