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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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By only focusing on how to keep food costs low, we risk ignoring the underlying causes of why people cannot afford food in the first place. (Ashley Jean MacDonald)

The true cost of food: High grocery prices are not the root issue

Monika Korzun, Dalhousie University; Ashley Jean MacDonald, Dalhousie University, and Donna Appavoo, Toronto Metropolitan University

Many people are experiencing the sticker shock of higher prices at grocery stores. But the amount we pay for food often does not reflect the real social, environmental and human costs of production.
Deinfluencing involves influencers discouraging their followers from buying overpriced or otherwise ineffective products. (Shutterstock)

The deinfluencing trend reflects a growing desire for authenticity online

Omar H. Fares, Toronto Metropolitan University

Deinfluencers prioritize genuine content and real engagement over the meticulously curated content and commercial partnerships that are common in traditional influencer culture.
The peace arch monument on the Canadian side of the Canada-U.S. border crossing, in Surrey, B.C. Several provinces will no longer allow the CBSA to detain immigrants in provincial jails. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Immigration detention continues in Canada despite the end of provincial agreements

Linda Mussell, University of Canterbury and Jessica Evans, Toronto Metropolitan University

Several Canadian provinces are terminating their immigration detention agreements with the CBSA. While that signals a move in the right direction, the federal government must also take action.
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

Mothers desperate to make ends meet sometimes end up behind bars

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.

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