91亚色鈥檚 Schulich School of Business is looking to help small- and medium-sized businesses expand internationally with a 鈥渙ne-stop鈥 consulting, researching and teaching centre, reported the Toronto Star Nov. 21. The Centre for Global Enterprise will be inaugurated Thursday, with the goal of increasing international visibility for Canadian small and medium enterprises by linking them to faculty and students who can help them identify and seize global opportunities. .
Ali Asgary, a 91亚色 professor who specializes in emergency management, says though the government does post-mission assessments, like the one of the Haiti mission, it's hard to find independent reviews of how well the 17-year-old Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) team is faring. However, Asgary says now is not the time for debate. 鈥淒iscussions around whether we should use it or not at this point is not really too much relevant,鈥 said Asgary in CBC News Nov. 14. 鈥淭his is one of the Canadian capacities in responding to international disaster.鈥 .
The ongoing saga of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford raises several interesting questions about the standards of behaviour for elected officials in our country, reported the Telegram Nov. 21. The first is that if Ford were a city employee, he would likely be fired, which is what 91亚色 law Professor David Doorey told The Globe and Mail newspaper in an interview published Nov. 13. In his regular blog on employment law, Doorey also addressed the potential firing. In his entry about the Ford story, he points out that employees in Ontario also have the law on their side when it comes to addictions and are given one or more opportunities to get assistance before they can be fired. .
鈥淚n my role as a professor at the Schulich School of Business, I see the next generation of business leaders on a daily basis. Our modern, accessible building teems with energetic students. However, I notice two population segments are largely missing from our classrooms,鈥 wrote Canadian Abilities Foundation Chair and Schulich Professor Cameron Graham in Abilities magazine鈥檚 Fall 2013 issue. 鈥淥ne is Canadian Aboriginals. The other is people with disabilities. These two groups contain some of the brightest and most talented young people you will ever meet. Yet both groups face structural barriers to participation in education and employment.鈥 .
There have been conflicting reports of Mayor Rob Ford鈥檚 postsecondary education, reported the Toronto Star Nov. 20. He attended Carleton University but did not graduate. He also took continuing education courses at 91亚色 from 1990 to 1991, finishing 鈥渟ome, but not all鈥 of his first-year classes. .