Professor Dennis Pilon weighs in on the sudden resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland who clashed with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the appropriate response to stiff tariffs threatened by President Donald Trump. The crisis has prompted questions over the appropriate diplomatic response for Canada and other countries bracing for a second Trump term. " The more he gets, the more he wants. He doesn鈥檛 respect people who give into him, he only respects absolutely loyal followers," Pilon tells The Guardian.

Professor Mark Winfield writes about Canada's response to Donald Trump's threat to impose 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican exports to the U.S. in an op-ed for The Conversation. "," writes Winfield. "Canada's premiers would be smarter to focus on engaging with their sub-national counterparts in neighbouring states rather than conducting their own freelance diplomacy."

In an op-ed for The Globe and Mail, Professor Michael Barutciski writes about why Canada should look at closing a loophole in its border agreement with the U.S. that could be incentivizing illegal migration. Barutciski says the inclusion of the 14-day rule (or loophole) in the amended Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) is an example of Ottawa鈥檚 tendency to favour laxness and administrative expediency. "," writes Barutciski.

Associate Director of the Refugee Law Lab Petra Molnar comments on Canada and the U.S. turning to technology to keep migrants out. Canada will soon boost investments in drones, sensors, and other tech, including its own surveillance towers. Advocates and experts say the deployment of new technologies risks endangering migrants. "... where Canada perhaps feels like it has to acquiesce to what the United States is asking for," Molnar tells CBC. She says the technology being deployed on borders dehumanizes people who are trying to cross the border as well as posing privacy concerns about data collection for those who live or travel near borders.

Professor Palma Paciocco talks to CTV News about legal delays making it increasingly difficult for people to have their day in court. Judicial and court staff vacancies, limited courtroom space and increasingly complicated legal processes all contribute to delays in the justice system. "," says Paciocco.

Professor David Doorey weighs in on the federal government directing the Canadian Industrial Relations Board to order Canada Post workers back to their jobs and to extend their existing collective agreement until May of 2025. Doorey says that the degree of power that a union holds might have determined the speed of government intervention in a strike. "," says Doorey, speaking to The Globe and Mail.

Professor Sapna Sharma talks to CBC about cities losing weeks' worth of winter ski, skate, and snow days each year due to climate change. In Canada, some cities and regions have lost more than two weeks of winter weather. Sharma's research has found that, leading to problems such as toxic algae blooms that follow in the summer.

Professor Zac Spicer comments on eastern Ontario mayors pointing out that recent provincial funding to help cover policing costs has left municipalities with their own police forces searching for financial support. The year-over-year increase in OPP billing was between 20 and 30 per cent and, in response, the provincial government announced $77 million to ease policing costs in those communities. , and they don't have any provincial support to show for it.

Professor Vijay Setlur talks to Global News about the owners of the Vancouver Whitecaps FC announcing that they have started the process to sell the club. This has left local soccer fans that just celebrated its 50th anniversary.

Professor Emeritus Paul Delaney weighs in on the Geminid meteor shower that peaked Friday night, bringing bright shooting star-like streaks to the sky in one of the best displays of the year. Delaney says the debris ranged from the size of a grain of sand to the size of a basketball. " with this material hitting the Earth's atmosphere and disintegrating," Delaney tells Toronto Star.

Recent research by Professor Ela Veresiu and co-authors reveals a complex moral landscape underlying everyday consumption practices. They discovered that people often unknowingly hold different meanings for concepts central to their consumption such as "self" and "care," reports Florida State University News. The study identified four primary strategies consumers use to justify their self-care choices: .

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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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TORONTO, March 9, 2020 鈥� When Central American families, men, women and children attempt to cross into the U.S., they鈥檙e faced with hardened U.S. immigration policies meant to stop unauthorized entry 鈥� even though many of these migrants are just desperate to flee violence and poverty in their homelands.

The transit experiences of migrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border will be the focus of a lecture, , hosted by 91亚色鈥檚 Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), with assistance from the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS). The Winter 2020 Michael Baptista Lecture will be held at the Toronto Reference Library on Wednesday, March 11.

鈥淟arge scale migration of Central American asylum seekers is one of the biggest humanitarian crises in the Americas today,鈥� said Associate Professor Sean Rehaag at Osgoode Hall Law School, who serves as Director of CRS.

But does this impact Canadians? And what about those Canadians who feel removed from televised images of Central American migrants being taken into federal custody, and children separated from their families and housed in crowded U.S. border facilities? Canadians should care, said Rehaag.

鈥淧eople are fleeing massive and sustained human rights violations, as well as serious economic hardship,鈥� he said. 鈥淯nfortunately, the United States has responded to this humanitarian crisis through harsh border control measures and penalties imposed on asylum seekers,鈥� said Rehaag. 鈥淭he Canadian government has failed to call out repeated U.S. breaches of international refugee law.鈥�

The event will feature three speakers working in Mexico, Guatemala, and the Mexico-U.S. border region: researcher Gio B'atz' (Giovanni Batz), of New Mexico State University; researcher Elizabeth Oglesby of University of Arizona; and activist Adalberto Ramos of Centro de Recursos para Migrantes. Rehaag will introduce the speakers, along with Associate Professor Alan T. Durston, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, who serves as Director of CERLAC. The discussion will be led by Francisco Rico-Martinez of FCJ Refugee Centre.

WHAT: The Winter 2020 Michael Baptista Lecture on Central American Migrants in Limbo: Transit Experiences and Grassroots Responses

WHEN: Wednesday, March 11 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

WHERE: Toronto Reference Library - Beeton Hall, 789 Yonge Street, Toronto

NOTE:聽Members of the media should RSVP to the contact below.

91亚色 champions new ways of thinking that drive teaching and research excellence. Our students receive the education they need to create big ideas that make an impact on the world. Meaningful and sometimes unexpected careers result from cross-disciplinary programming, innovative course design and diverse experiential learning opportunities. 91亚色 students and graduates push limits, achieve goals and find solutions to the world鈥檚 most pressing social challenges, empowered by a strong community that opens minds. 91亚色 U is an internationally recognized research university 鈥� our 11 faculties and 25 research centres have partnerships with 200+ leading universities worldwide. Located in Toronto, 91亚色 is the third largest university in Canada, with a strong community of 53,000 students, 7,000 faculty and administrative staff, and more than 300,000 alumni.

91亚色 U's fully bilingual Glendon Campus is home to Southern Ontario's Centre of Excellence for French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education.

Media Contact: Vanessa Thompson, 91亚色 Media Relations, 647-654-9452, vthomps@yorku.ca

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TORONTO, March 9, 2020 鈥� When Central American families, men, women and children attempt to cross into the U.S., they鈥檙e faced with hardened U.S. immigration policies meant to stop unauthorized entry 鈥� even though many of these migrants are just desperate to flee violence and poverty in their homelands.

The transit experiences of migrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border will be the focus of a lecture, , hosted by 91亚色鈥檚 Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), with assistance from the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS). The Winter 2020 Michael Baptista Lecture will be held at the Toronto Reference Library on Wednesday, March 11.

鈥淟arge scale migration of Central American asylum seekers is one of the biggest humanitarian crises in the Americas today,鈥� said Associate Professor Sean Rehaag at Osgoode Hall Law School, who serves as Director of CRS.

But does this impact Canadians? And what about those Canadians who feel removed from televised images of Central American migrants being taken into federal custody, and children separated from their families and housed in crowded U.S. border facilities? Canadians should care, said Rehaag.

鈥淧eople are fleeing massive and sustained human rights violations, as well as serious economic hardship,鈥� he said. 鈥淯nfortunately, the United States has responded to this humanitarian crisis through harsh border control measures and penalties imposed on asylum seekers,鈥� said Rehaag. 鈥淭he Canadian government has failed to call out repeated U.S. breaches of international refugee law.鈥�

The event will feature three speakers working in Mexico, Guatemala, and the Mexico-U.S. border region: researcher Gio B'atz' (Giovanni Batz), of New Mexico State University; researcher Elizabeth Oglesby of University of Arizona; and activist Adalberto Ramos of Centro de Recursos para Migrantes. Rehaag will introduce the speakers, along with Associate Professor Alan T. Durston, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, who serves as Director of CERLAC. The discussion will be led by Francisco Rico-Martinez of FCJ Refugee Centre.

WHAT: The Winter 2020 Michael Baptista Lecture on Central American Migrants in Limbo: Transit Experiences and Grassroots Responses

WHEN: Wednesday, March 11 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

WHERE: Toronto Reference Library - Beeton Hall, 789 Yonge Street, Toronto

NOTE:聽Members of the media should RSVP to the contact below.

91亚色 champions new ways of thinking that drive teaching and research excellence. Our students receive the education they need to create big ideas that make an impact on the world. Meaningful and sometimes unexpected careers result from cross-disciplinary programming, innovative course design and diverse experiential learning opportunities. 91亚色 students and graduates push limits, achieve goals and find solutions to the world鈥檚 most pressing social challenges, empowered by a strong community that opens minds. 91亚色 U is an internationally recognized research university 鈥� our 11 faculties and 25 research centres have partnerships with 200+ leading universities worldwide. Located in Toronto, 91亚色 is the third largest university in Canada, with a strong community of 53,000 students, 7,000 faculty and administrative staff, and more than 300,000 alumni.

91亚色 U's fully bilingual Glendon Campus is home to Southern Ontario's Centre of Excellence for French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education.

Media Contact: Vanessa Thompson, 91亚色 Media Relations, 647-654-9452, vthomps@yorku.ca

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