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Justice-Impacted Entrepreneurs Launch New Businesses in Toronto
On Saturday, September 12, new businesses created by graduates of Street Entrepreneurs 3.0 will open their doors to the public at the University of Toronto Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus, 108 College Street. The founders are graduates of a sixteen-week business incubator run by Toronto’s Urban Rez Solutions Social Enterprise for formerly incarcerated and justice-impacted persons and their families. Every founder is now open for business.
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Why more new grads are skipping entry-level gigs to start their own business
When Jaiya Varshney graduated with a commerce degree from the University of British Columbia in 2023, she dutifully sent out resumes, hoping to land a job working in sustainability.
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Indigenous Peoples in the Workplace: Examining Employment, Discrimination, Training and Artificial Intelligence Use Report
The Indigenous Peoples in the Workplace: Examining Employment, Discrimination, Training and Artificial Intelligence Use Report builds on previous Diversity Institute research by using data from Wave 8 of the Survey on Employment and Skills, which was conducted by the Environics Institute for Survey Research, in partnership with the Future Skills Centre and the Diversity Institute at Toronto Metropolitan University.
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Nunavut does not have its own immigration pathway, despite acute labour shortages
Every other Canadian province and two of the three territories select their own economic immigrants. Nunavut doesn't — and the reasons have more to do with Inuit employment and a small, strained labour market.
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AI skills gap in Canada widens as worker confidence fails to keep pace
New TD research exposes critical AI skills gap in Canada, with one in three workers admitting to overstating abilities
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Is the AI training gap dulling your transformation edge?
Canadian organizations are deploying artificial intelligence (AI) faster than they’re preparing their people to use it – and the cost of that gap is becoming impossible to ignore, according to a report.
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Justice-Impacted Entrepreneurs Launch New Businesses in Toronto
On Saturday, September 12, new businesses created by graduates of Street Entrepreneurs 3.0 will open their doors to the public at the University of Toronto Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus, 108 College Street. The founders are graduates of a sixteen-week business incubator run by Toronto’s Urban Rez Solutions Social Enterprise for formerly incarcerated and justice-impacted persons and their families. Every founder is now open for business.
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Why more new grads are skipping entry-level gigs to start their own business
When Jaiya Varshney graduated with a commerce degree from the University of British Columbia in 2023, she dutifully sent out resumes, hoping to land a job working in sustainability.
Presse
Indigenous Peoples in the Workplace: Examining Employment, Discrimination, Training and Artificial Intelligence Use Report
The Indigenous Peoples in the Workplace: Examining Employment, Discrimination, Training and Artificial Intelligence Use Report builds on previous Diversity Institute research by using data from Wave 8 of the Survey on Employment and Skills, which was conducted by the Environics Institute for Survey Research, in partnership with the Future Skills Centre and the Diversity Institute at Toronto Metropolitan University.




