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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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Employees and supervisors are more likely to rate their job satisfaction high while working remotely compared to when working in-person. (Shutterstock)

Working one day a week in person might be the key to happier, more productive employees

Sam Andrey, Toronto Metropolitan University; Cory Searcy, Toronto Metropolitan University, and Patrick Neumann, Toronto Metropolitan University

In this new world of hybrid work, managers need to create working conditions that build and maintain interpersonal connections, while allowing for both high productivity and superior job satisfaction.
Will precarious alternative forms of work, like gig platform jobs, become the norm for immigrant care workers? (Shutterstock)

Gig platforms help immigrant care workers find jobs, but they are only a temporary solution

Laura Lam, University of Toronto and Anna Triandafyllidou, Toronto Metropolitan University

Alternative working arrangements like gig platforms might help immigrant workers find temporary work, but many care professionals are still unable to find permanent jobs in their industry.
The pandemic posed serious challenges to Canada’s immigration system, but it also provides an opportunity to start creating a system that is fairer for all. (Shutterstock)

The pandemic created challenges and opportunities for Canadian immigration

Ashika Niraula, Toronto Metropolitan University and Rica Agnes Castaneda, Toronto Metropolitan University

As Canada plans to welcome 500,000 new permanent residents a year by 2025, the government must make changes to make the immigration system more fair and transparent.
Sejumlah faktor telah berkontribusi terhadap kenaikan inflasi baru-baru ini, termasuk gangguan rantai pasokan, invasi Rusia ke Ukraina, dan kurangnya tenaga kerja. (Shutterstock)

Ahli ekonomi jelaskan apa yang perlu diketahui tentang inflasi

Nicholas Li, Toronto Metropolitan University

Ahli ekonomi memberikan wawasan tentang pengukuran inflasi, penyebab, dan pengaruhnya terhadap pengaruhnya terhadap masyarakat secara luas.
Duncan McCue, left, walks with Rocky James, a podcast guest on CBC’s ‘Kuper Island.’ (Evan Aagaard/CBC Podcasts)

How to decolonize journalism — Podcast

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation

Canadian journalist institutions have failed to address their ongoing colonialism and that has meant that urgent Indigenous issues have been ignored or sensationalized.
La députée libérale Marwah Rizqy n compagnie de Dominique Anglade, en août 2022, à Saint-Agapit. Les menaces de mort répétées dont a fait l’objet Mme Rizqy ont entraîné l’arrestation d’un homme. La Presse Canadienne / Jacques Boissinot

Pour en finir avec le harcèlement contre les femmes en politique

Tracey Raney, Toronto Metropolitan University

Lorsque le harcèlement est dirigé contre des femmes politiques, des militantes et des journalistes parce qu’elles sont des femmes, il constitue une menace pour la démocratie.
Québec Liberal Marwah Rizqy speaks at a news conference while Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade, left, looks on, in August 2022 in St-Agapit, Que. Rizqy received repeated death threats, resulting in a man’s arrest. THE CANADIAN PRESS / Jacques Boissinot

#MeToo turns 5: Taking stock of gender-based violence in Canadian politics

Tracey Raney, Toronto Metropolitan University

When harassment is directed at women politicians, staffers, activists and journalists because they are women, it poses a threat to democracy.
The pilot of a Greek fighter jet F-16 Viper checks the aircraft before the takeoff at Tanagra north of Athens, Greece in September 2022. Greece has bolstered its air force amid increasing tensions with neighbouring Turkey. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Could tensions between Greece and Turkey lead to a second European war?

Yasar Bukan, Toronto Metropolitan University

Tensions between Greece and Turkey are nothing new, but the future cannot be built on the grievances of the past. For greater regional stability, both countries must de-escalate.
TikTok’s popularity continues to rise, while other social media networks have seen a decline. (Shutterstock)

As pandemic measures are lifted, social media use has declined with the exception of TikTok

Philip Mai, Toronto Metropolitan University and Anatoliy Gruzd, Toronto Metropolitan University

The Chinese-owned app TikTok continues its growth as one of the most popular social media networks. After pandemic health measures were lifted, other social media networks saw a decline in use.
After the death of Queen Elizabeth, questions arise about whose life gets mourned and who does not. Here is the Queen with the Guards of Honour in Nigeria, Dec. 3, 2003, for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

About the Queen and the Crown’s crimes (or how to talk about the unmourned) — Podcast

Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation

In the middle of the tremendous outpouring of love and grief for the Queen and the monarchy she represented, not everyone wants to take a moment of silence. And there are a lot of reasons why.
A building under construction in Toronto. According to Canada’s national housing agency, Ontario needs to build 1.8 million new homes to alleviate the housing crisis. (Shutterstock)

Ontario’s Growth Plan is reducing housing affordability

Frank Clayton, Toronto Metropolitan University

Ontario’s first Growth Plan won awards that recognized the province as a leader in the field. But since then, successive changes to the policy have sabotaged the original plan’s progress.
QAnon members participate in a protest against the counting of electoral votes in Washington, DC, which affirmed President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Mothers of the movement: Leadership by alt-right women paves the way for violence

Sandra Jeppesen, Lakehead University and iowyth hezel ulthiin, Toronto Metropolitan University

Women have assumed different roles in alt-right movements, including organizing protests, spreading misinformation and organizing militias.
A number of factors have contributed to the recent rise in inflation, including supply chain disruptions, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and labour shortages. (Shutterstock)

An economist explains: What you need to know about inflation

Nicholas Li, Toronto Metropolitan University

An economist provides insight into how inflation is measured, where it comes from and how it is impacting Canadians and the economy at large.

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