Canada trails other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries in developing a “joined-up” national food policy that recognizes food as a biological and cultural necessity rather than a product to be bought and sold, said Rod McRae, a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at 91ɫ, in The Globe and Mail Oct. 8. Calls for a national food policy in Canada are part of a broader, global debate around food and how it is produced and sold. .
“Recent policy changes on removing the ‘Canadian experience’ barrier and some successful initiatives by organizations such as the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council have helped address the problem of underemployment among immigrant professionals,” wrote 91ɫ Professor Jelena Zikic in The Filipino Post Oct. 7. “However, there is still a lot more work to be done on this front. In particular, little is known about the intricate identity transitions that migrant professionals experience once they are faced with the inability to be ‘who they are.’ ” .
A narrow focus is crucial for successful online businesses, said Alan Middleton, professor of marketing at 91ɫ’s Schulich School of Business, in Ѳ’s Oct. 7. “The way to battle with what’s called the first movers who are broad in their reach is to go for very specific parts of that broad territory. It’s a combination of attracting people who have a shared interest in a topic and providing information about it.” .
If history is anything to go by, the odds aren’t good. So far this year, Build Toronto has only sold one property, for $3.7 million. In 2013, it didn’t sell anything at all, and actually lost $2.1 million. “There’s absolutely no record of achievement,” says Schulich School of Business real estate Professor James McKellar, who attributes Build’s underwhelming performance to political interference. The organization, he said, in Toronto Life Oct. 7, is not arm’s-length, as it claims to be. .
Halifax-born Maria Mutch, who lives in North Kingstown, R.I., is a non-fiction finalist for her first book, Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Random House of Canada)…. Mutch, who moved with her husband from Burlington, Ont., to Rhode Island in 2000, grew up in Kentville and wrote stories from girlhood but studied visual arts at 91ɫ in Toronto, reported The Chronicle Herald Oct. 7. .