Heading into last weekend, the team has won just twice since mid-July. Those developments don’t inspire a sponsor to spend big money for a spot on a TFC jersey, says Schulich School of Business instructor Vijay Setlur. “If they make the playoffs it will generate the positive feeling that the team can use to approach potential brand partners,” said Setlur in the Toronto Star Sept. 22. “But if the season ends up being a disaster … it will signal another period of instability. Does a brand want to be associated with a team that’s perpetually unstable?” .
Sabrina Malach, 33, one of two local Jewish beekeepers, spent hours last week with a team of volunteers extracting this nectar. It’s part of her mission for “Tikkun Olam” – to repair the world – and get other local Jews to join her, reported the Toronto Star Sept. 24…. About eight years ago when Malach started seeing hexagons everywhere, she knew bees were her calling. The Thornhill, Ontario native got a master’s degree from 91ŃÇÉ« in Environmental Studies with a focus on urban pollination. One day she hoped for hives of her own. .
Joel Lexchin, a drug safety expert at 91ŃÇÉ«, said the regulator is notoriously slow in posting important safety information it promises to make accessible. With respect to the drug facility inspection reports, the records should already be available for Canadian consumers, he said in the Toronto Star Sept. 19. “The expectation is that it should be made available and the fact it’s not speaks to an ongoing attitude about the relationship between Health Canada, the pharmaceutical industry and the public,” Lexchin said. .
91ŃÇÉ« intends to provide free tuition to five low income students entering its Osgoode Hall Law School – temporarily at least – as part of the school’s income-contingent loan program, reported The Toronto Observer Sept. 18. .
What makes these games especially exciting is that not all of the events are centred in the downtown core, reported the Beach Mirror Sept. 18. They’ve been spread out in facilities from the 91ŃÇÉ« campus in North 91ŃÇÉ« to Centennial Park in Etobicoke and into east Scarborough. It makes the games accessible to so many more fans, and will in a number of cases give residents the opportunity to watch international athletics in facilities they can walk to from their homes. .
3G, the Brazilian company behind the takeover of Tim Horton's and Heinz, is known for its hard-nosed attention to the bottom line, right down to counting sheets of paper. Their hiring philosophy is called PSD, which stands for poor, smart and deep desire to get rich. On Sept. 18, CBC’s “Ontario Today” had guests, including Professor Alan Middleton from 91ŃÇɫ’s Schulich School of Business, weigh in on whether stinginess a chance to turn a business around or the beginning of the end. .
In addition to the artist talk and reception at the Dunlop Gallery Friday night for the exhibition From What Remains, there’s a screening of 10 short films and videos by Saskatchewan artists at the Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative, reported Prairie Dog Sept. 18. The program is called Tiny Magic, and it’s curated by Amber Christensen, a former Saskatchewan resident now doing grad studies in cinema and media at 91ŃÇÉ« in Toronto. .