91亚色 Professor Nick Cercone is leading a research team that has received $294,000 from the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to study the expression of sentiment, affect, influence and emotions in social media, blogs and e-mails, which are provided by the organizations the researchers are partnering with, reported Metro Feb. 17. .
A satellite monitoring Arctic and Antarctic ice cover changes has produced its first validated Arctic ice thickness maps showing widespread sea ice thinning, according to a new study co-authored by 91亚色 researchers鈥.鈥淒ata are urgently required to better understand the causes of Arctic Ocean change and to better predict the ice鈥檚 future fate,鈥 said 91亚色 Professor and study co-author Christian Haas in the North 91亚色 Mirror Feb. 15. .
On Friday, asteroid 2012 DA14 came within a celestial blink of smashing into the Earth.聽But for a growing group of prospectors with an intense and entrepreneurial interest in such orbiting space rocks, this relatively tiny traveller 鈥 around 45 m in diameter 鈥 wasn鈥檛 worth a passing glance.鈥︹淵ou start digging into a 50-m rock and before you know it, you鈥檙e out the other side,鈥 said 91亚色 Astronomer Paul Delaney in the Toronto Star Feb. 15. 鈥淭o mine (asteroids) profitably, I think you鈥檝e got to be talking hundreds of metres in diameter to have enough raw materials once you鈥檝e established yourself on the surface.鈥 .
Dr. Romina Mizrahi, research scientist and psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, cited three factors that dissuade many women from pursuing research careers: Timing, the nature of academic evaluation, and, eventually, burnout if a scientist is a parent too鈥.Lorna Marsden, president emerita of 91亚色 and the chair of the Council of Canadian Academies expert panel, said women scientists shouldn鈥檛 be given the task of solving this dilemma. 鈥淢y response is: 鈥業t鈥檚 not your obligation,鈥欌 Marsden said in The Globe and Mail Feb. 18. 鈥淚t鈥檚 the obligation of large organizations[鈥to think about how you can get there. Not: 鈥榊ou have to fix it.鈥欌 .
A Toronto District School Board memo to staff that included gender and race among qualifications that could win a candidate an interview for a teaching position has outraged some female teachers鈥.But experts on discrimination said the memo met proper hiring practices. 鈥淕iving preference to designated groups who are underrepresented in the TDSB teacher complement could not only be non-discriminatory and legal but could also be part of an effort to stay within the law in terms of their staffing and hiring,鈥 said Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Sonia Lawrence in The Globe and Mail Feb. 19. .
Multiple Grammy winner Adele has admitted to anxiety about performing the Oscar-nominated James Bond theme 鈥淪kyfall鈥 at the Feb. 24 ceremony鈥.Sports psychologist and 91亚色 Professor Paul Dennis says there鈥檚 no difference between stage fright and what鈥檚 clinically known as pre-competitive performance anxiety鈥.鈥淚t could strike a seasoned performer with no previous exposure to it and quite often it鈥檚 a result of them overthinking the situation,鈥 said Dennis in the Toronto Star Feb. 15鈥.Pianist and 91亚色 music Professor Christina Petrowska Quilico says performance anxieties are multiplied thanks to social media. .
Jim Balsillie, the hard-driving former co-chief executive and major shareholder of BlackBerry Ltd. liquidated his substantial ownership stake in the struggling smartphone maker within 12 months of his departure last year after a radical management overhaul.鈥he Canadian Coalition on Good Governance doesn鈥檛 prescribe precisely how much time should elapse before a senior executive like Balsillie could unload shares, but the principle is predicated on keeping some skin in the game. 鈥淵ou shouldn鈥檛 be allowed to just quit and cash out,鈥 said 91亚色 Professor Richard Leblanc in the Financial Post Feb. 15. 鈥淭he board let him jettison all his shares rather than have a staggered period of containment for the sake of the company.鈥 .
鈥淥ver the past two days, we've had the good fortune to hear up close what Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever, has to say about responsible capitalism and the role of Unilever in making the world a better place. Polman has been in Toronto speaking in the Bata Lecture Series on Responsible Capitalism hosted by the Schulich School of Business,鈥 co-wrote Schulich Professors Andrew Crane and Dirk Matten in the聽Sustainable Business Forum Feb. 16. 鈥淎nd from what we've heard, Polman is in a different league to most of the other identi-kit CEOs out there. He really gets that business has to do things differently if it is to succeed and prosper in the future.鈥 .
91亚色 Region鈥檚 front-line social service workers and school board administrators launched the first of seven learning sessions focused on youth homelessness Tuesday, reported the Newmarket Era Feb. 15. Hosted by United Way 91亚色 Region and 91亚色 at the Markham Convergence Centre, the series seeks to develop an integrated response to the growing number of young people dropping off the social radar. The programs feature far-flung keynote speakers sharing their strategies and successes. .