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Toronto Metropolitan University

Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University)

Toronto Metropolitan University is Canada’s leader in innovative, career-oriented education and a university clearly on the move. With a mission to serve societal need, and a long-standing commitment to engaging its community, the university offers more than 100 undergraduate and graduate programs. Distinctly urban, culturally diverse and inclusive, the university is home to more than 45,000 students, including 2,400 master’s and PhD students, 3,200 faculty and staff, and nearly 170,000 alumni worldwide. Research at the university is on a trajectory of success and growth: externally funded research has doubled in the past five years. The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education is Canada’s leading provider of university-based adult education.

The Centre for Communicating Knowledge (CCK) located within The Creative School at the university will play a key role in The Conversation and work with all Toronto Metropolitan University faculties to develop new ways to communicate research, assist in the development of multiple media platforms and create innovative outputs. The CCK’s aim is to find new ways to explore knowledge mobilization. Engaging students, the CCK will conceptualize and develop various communication assets such as infographics, videos, and animations to enhance our faculty members’ stories.

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Social media posts featuring unhealthy foods get more likes and engagement. But there are ways to change that. (Borzoo Moazami, Unsplash)

Food for thought: How your mindset can make healthy food more alluring on social media

Ethan Pancer, Saint Mary’s University; Matthew Philp, Toronto Metropolitan University, and Theo Noseworthy, York University, Canada

New research finds that switching to a more thoughtful mindset can increase engagement with healthier food options on social media.
Many women who are incarcerated were just trying to make ends meet for their families. Here an image from a rally to demand the release of people held in jails, outside the Riverside Correctional Facility in Philadelphia, May 2020. Joe Piette/Flickr

More than 60 per cent of incarcerated women are mothers — Listen

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation and Boké Saisi, The Conversation

For Mother’s Day, we look at the fastest growing prison population in Canada — racialized women, many of whom are mothers. Experts connect the trend to rising poverty and the attempts to cope with it.
Sheila Flaherty, the Nunavut director of the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada in Iqaluit, Nvt. Sustainable tourism connects people to the planet and their culture while providing them with livelihoods. (Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada)

Indigenous women in Northern Canada creating sustainable livelihoods through tourism

Sonya Graci, Toronto Metropolitan University and Yvette Rasmussen

Indigenous women are using sustainable tourism to overcome generational challenges and as an entrepreneurial means of generating income.
Environmental, social and governance investing, a form of responsible investing that aligns financial returns with positive environmental and social ones, has gained exponential popularity in recent years. (Shutterstock)

How environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing controversies can impact fossil fuels

Sibo Chen, Toronto Metropolitan University

The criticisms faced by ESG projects are indicative of the growing polarization in the future profitability of the fossil fuel sector.
Research shows that uninsured people are more likely to get care later in pregnancy, and less care overall. This increases risks for mothers and babies. (Shutterstock)

An emergency in the making: Ending pandemic prenatal health coverage for uninsured people is both costly and dangerous

Manavi Handa, Toronto Metropolitan University

Discontinuing expanded health-care funding will result in less prenatal care for uninsured patients, more health risks, higher costs to the health system, and moral distress for health-care providers.
Roads require de-icing strategies in northern regions, but this practice has negative effects on aquatic biodiversity.

Freshwater ecosystems are becoming increasingly salty. Here’s why this is a concern

Alison Derry, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM); Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles, Universitat de Barcelona, and Stephanie J Melles, Toronto Metropolitan University

Although it has been considerably less studied than other environmental problems, salinization presents major challenges for biodiversity in freshwater and coastal areas.
Les routes nécessitent des stratégies de déglaçage dans les régions tempérées du nord, mais cette pratique a des effets négatifs sur la biodiversité aquatique. (Alison Derry)

Les écosystèmes d’eau douce deviennent de plus en plus salés. Voici pourquoi c’est inquiétant

Alison Derry, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM); Miguel Cañedo-Argüelles, Universitat de Barcelona, and Stephanie J Melles, Toronto Metropolitan University

Bien qu’elle ait été considérablement moins étudiée que d’autres problèmes environnementaux, la salinisation présente des défis majeurs pour la biodiversité des eaux douces et des zones côtières.
Students organize a walkout to protest sexual violence on campuses and to support survivors of sexual assault, in Kingston, Ont., at Queen’s University, in September 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg

Addressing campus sexual violence: New risk assessment tool can help administrators make difficult decisions

Sandy Jung, MacEwan University and Jesmen Mendoza, Toronto Metropolitan University

A national framework to address and prevent sexual and gender-based violence at post-secondary institutions includes a tool to guide responses to victims, alleged perpetrators and the community.
Women sew a quilt at the Quilting Bee Demonstration at the Canadian National Exhibition circa 1940. (Canadian National Exhibition Archives)

Quilts from the Second World War tell the stories of the Canadian women who sewed them

Irene Gammel, Toronto Metropolitan University and Joanna Dermenjian, Toronto Metropolitan University

Canadian women made an estimated 400,000 quilts during the Second World War. The quilts represent the forgotten story of Canadian women’s efforts during the war.
Immigrant women working in the care sector do the essential work many Canadians rely on, but low wages mean many need to work past retirement age. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

Working more and making less: Canada needs to protect immigrant women care workers as they age

Naomi Lightman, Toronto Metropolitan University and Hamid Akbary, University of Calgary

Immigrant care workers are having to work into retirement age to make ends meet. The Canadian government must do more to support them.
Justice Paul Rouleau, who headed the Public Order Emergency Commission last year, tables his report on Monday about the inquiry’s findings into national security issues and the so-called Freedom Convoy. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Emergencies Act inquiry report should tackle the racist origins of national security

Reem Bahdi, University of Windsor; Fahad Ahmad, Toronto Metropolitan University; Jeffrey Monaghan, Carleton University, and Yasmeen Abu-Laban, University of Alberta

Approaches to security issues in Canada today need to learn from the dire histories of what happens under the banner of national security.
Investing in non-profit programs that provide culturally-relevant education is important to children and families.

‘Child care’ or education? Words matter in how we envision living well with children

Nicole Land, Toronto Metropolitan University and Kathleen Kummen, Capilano University

Early childhood education isn’t about warehousing children so adults can go to work. There is an ethical imperative to support a paradigm shift in how our society values educating young children.

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