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Canada trails other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries in developing a \u201cjoined-up\u201d national food policy that recognizes food as a biological and cultural necessity rather than a product to be bought and sold, said Rod McRae<\/strong>, a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, in The Globe and Mail <\/em>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.\u00a0Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cRecent policy changes on removing the \u2018Canadian experience\u2019 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,\u201d wrote York University Professor Jelena Zikic<\/strong> in The Filipino Post <\/em>Oct. 7. \u201cHowever, 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 \u2018who they are.\u2019 \u201d Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How to succeed at e-commerce: Own your lane<\/a>
\nA narrow focus is crucial for successful online businesses, said Alan Middleton<\/strong>, professor of marketing at York University\u2019s Schulich School of Business, in Maclean\u2019s<\/em> Oct. 7. \u201cThe way to battle with what\u2019s called the first movers who are broad in their reach is to go for very specific parts of that broad territory. It\u2019s a combination of attracting people who have a shared interest in a topic and providing information about it.\u201d Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Could Doug Ford really sell city real estate to fund his subway plan?<\/a>
\nIf history is anything to go by, the odds aren\u2019t good. So far this year, Build Toronto has only sold one property, for $3.7 million. In 2013, it didn\u2019t sell anything at all, and actually lost $2.1 million. \u201cThere\u2019s absolutely no record of achievement,\u201d says Schulich School of Business real estate Professor James McKellar<\/strong>, who attributes Build\u2019s underwhelming performance to political interference. The organization, he said, in Toronto Life <\/em>Oct. 7, is not arm\u2019s-length, as it claims to be. Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nHalifax-born Maria Mutch<\/strong>, 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<\/em> (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Random House of Canada)\u2026. 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 York University in Toronto, reported The Chronicle Herald<\/em> Oct. 7. Read full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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