Jessica Klein, research assistant at the Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Lab, speaks to Verywell Health about how masking behaviours to avoid uncomfortable social situations and stigma leads to long-term burnout for many autistic women. 鈥淎 pretty consistent finding across the board is that many ," says Klein.

Federal and provincial politicians across Canada are discussing ramping up policies that would allow the detention and treatment of addicted and mentally ill people against their will in psychiatric institutions. Professor Marina Morrow, who has , speaks to The Globe and Mail about her findings.

Professor Valerio de Stefano talks to Financial Post about how AI is poised to change the way job vacancies are filled. The main goal of using AI as part of a hiring process is to cut costs. 鈥淩emoving bias is a secondary objective," says De Stefano. 鈥�.鈥� It can't be easily removed because software is developed based on past practices. "In order to build any of these programs, you have to have a database and a benchmark that informs how they are going to work," he says. "If that database or data set includes discrimination 鈥� and, historically, we have discrimination in many jobs 鈥� it's not so easy to root out." De Stefano doesn't believe companies are intentionally seeking to discriminate against candidates but says that even with a concerted efffort, removing biases from algorithms can't be done. "The idea that we can use technology as a magic wand to eliminate discrimination is just delusional," he says. "Tech is a reflection of what we do and value."

Discrimination is always going to creep into the ways you build the algorithm

de Stefano speaking to Financial Post

Professor Thomas Klassen speaks with a Toronto Star columnist about how baby boomers benefited 鈥斅燼nd were shaped by 鈥斅爐heir generation's good timing and vast numbers. 鈥溾�� says Klassen.

After seasons of forest fires, floods and heat waves, there鈥檚 a real need to build resilient food systems that can withstand the impacts of climate change and extreme weather events. But puts all our apples in one basket, Sheila Colla tells The Narwhal. 鈥淲here did the disconnect happen 鈥� why do we all of a sudden value the honeybee as our main pollinator?鈥� Colla asks.

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TORONTO, Oct. 2, 2023 鈥� Just how welcoming Toronto and other global cities are to migrants can play a large role in their success at navigating physical and social barriers to reestablish their careers, found 91亚色 researchers.

The researchers wanted to know how big cities, such as Toronto, one of the largest international, financial, and business centres attracting skilled migrants from all around the world, enables or constrains migrant careers and integration. The answer, they say, is important for cities and organizations serving the migrant population as well as employers, policymakers, and even migrants.

Local customs, educational job requirements, learning opportunities and the availability of social connections all form boundaries that can help or hinder the ability to navigate a new city. The recent study by 91亚色 Professor of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies and former 91亚色 PhD candidate Viktoriya Voloshyna, now an Assistant professor at Thompson Rivers University, completed an in-depth study of migrants鈥� lived-work experiences, across time and space to discover how cities and their artifacts, including the built cityscape, customs and practices, affect newcomers鈥� capacities to learn and flourish in their careers.

Skilled migrants need to navigate the city鈥檚 boundary objects, visual ones such as buildings like the Toronto Reference Library and layout of city streets, as well as non-visual ones including educational opportunities, degree accreditation requirements or certificates, to adapt, bridge or transfer their skills, and accumulate new knowledge to access local labour markets.

鈥淏oundary objects can not only bridge but can accentuate boundaries between different groups and communities in the city,鈥� says Zikic. 鈥淯nlike locals who may easily navigate a city in search of opportunities, new migrants must quickly acquire 鈥榟ost city know-how鈥� to navigate local work opportunities. The study found three specific strategies that assist migrants both in finding work locally but more importantly in integrating into local society.鈥�

Big cities like Toronto are often chosen by skilled migrants as they are perceived to offer better career opportunities and environments conducive to social and family life, but once here, there can be many barriers to success.

鈥淚n Toronto, initial visual, spatial, and social experiences played a powerful role in migrant belongingness and in facilitating the search for local career opportunities,鈥� says Zikic. 鈥淐ity planning and migrant infrastructure, creating a more relatable and welcoming city, both socially and visually, not only impacts immediate settlement and navigation needs but can also impact migrant readiness for career action and integration.鈥�

The researchers found negative or unwelcoming experiences of settlement and job searching in the new city can have a lasting impact on migrants鈥� relationships locally, and on how they choose to integrate. Migrants experiencing the city in negative or unwelcome ways can make them less inclined to connect socially and give back to the local society, and instead focus more on achieving personal career goals.

However, those with more positive initial work and social experiences may be much more externally focused and play a major role in giving back to their new local community.

In addition, the researchers found migrants recontextualize their careers through career orienting, cross-boundary career adaptation, and creative career action, which could include developing solutions or objects that build bridges, such as creating a phone directory of names and numbers of all the people from their country of origin.

The study looked at skilled migrants from a wide range of different countries, including Japan, Romania, Ukraine, India and Philippines.

The paper, , was published in the journal Academy of Management.

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