Media Releases
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New IMFG paper makes case for new taxes for Canada’s largest cities
Toronto, ON – The new IMFG paper, More Tax Sources for Canada’s Largest Cities: Why, What, and How?, released today by the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, examines a dilemma that many large Canadian cities face: how should they pay for growing expenditure challenges and deteriorating infrastructure with a tax base that has remained largely the same for many decades? Contrary to the view of many city councillors and local…
Online privacy tool Access My Info now empowers Canadians to learn how dating and fitness apps use their data
Toronto, ON – Do you ever wonder if your cell phone provider is logging your location? Or if your online dating app is sharing your sexual preferences with marketers? Does your fitness tracker know more about you than it needs to? A revamped online tool called Access My Info is launching today and will help Canadians ask these questions directly of the companies they do business with, with the power of the law behind them. “Access My Info empowers individual Canadians to…
Canada Should Remove Mexico from Refugee ‘Safe’ List
Toronto, ON – Canada should remove Mexico from its refugee ‘safe’ list because of the country’s serious human rights abuses, the University of Toronto’s International Human Rights Program (IHRP) said in a new report released today. Failure to do so could place Canada in violation of its international legal obligations. The 54-page report, “‘Unsafe’ and on the Margins: Canada’s Response to Mexico’s Mistreatment of Sexual Minorities and People Living with HIV,” is based on IHRP field research in Mexico, including interviews…
World expert on machine learning and genomic medicine to speak at BizSkule
Sunnyvale, CA – Deep learning will transform medicine, but not in the way that many advocates think. Biological complexity, rare mutations and confounding factors work against us, so that even if we sequence 100,000 genomes, it won’t be enough. Brendan Frey is engineering the future of personalized medicine. A professor in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, he and his research group combine world-leading expertise in machine learning with more than a decade of experience in genomic…
New lizard found in Dominican Republic
Toronto, ON – A University of Toronto-led team has reported the discovery of a new lizard in the middle of the most- visited island in the Caribbean, strengthening a long-held theory that communities of lizards can evolve almost identically on separate islands. The chameleon-like lizard – a Greater Antillean anole dubbed Anolis landestoyi for the naturalist who first spotted and photographed it – is one of the first new anole species found in the Dominican Republic in decades. “As soon…
University of Toronto-led research suggests some major changes to geology textbooks
Toronto, ON – Super-computer modelling of Earth's crust and upper-mantle suggests that ancient geologic events may have left deep 'scars' that can come to life to play a role in earthquakes, mountain formation, and other ongoing processes on our planet. This changes the widespread view that only interactions at the boundaries between continent-sized tectonic plates could be responsible for such events. A team of researchers from the University of Toronto and the University of Aberdeen have created models indicating that…
New Principals Launch New Year of Consulting Services for the Rotman School’s Impact Consulting Group
Toronto, ON – A new team of talented MBA students has begun to provide premium consulting services at competitive rates with Impact Consulting Group at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. The team is already working with clients in a wide range of industries from corporate governance to technology services. Since 1972, Impact Consulting Group has been providing innovative and customized consulting services to clients. Each year, a new team of five Rotman MBA students is selected to lead…
UofT’s Rotman School of Management Joins Business School Alliance for Healthcare Management
Toronto, ON – The University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management has joined a prestigious alliance working to transform the health sector by advancing education, research and practice in schools of management. The Rotman School is the first Canadian school and second non-U.S. school to become a member of the Business School Alliance for Healthcare Management (BAHM). Other members include Harvard Business School, Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley, and Indian School of Business. “BAHM is a…
Rotman Faculty and PhD Students Honoured For Research Activities
Toronto, ON – Four faculty members at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management along with a PhD student have received honours recently for their achievements in research. Three Rotman faculty members were honoured by the Society for Financial Studies at their annual conference which was held at the Rotman School in May. A paper co-authored by Redouane Elkamhi, an assistant professor of finance, and Mike Simutin, an assistant professor of finance, was honoured as the best paper published…
University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering announces establishment of the Foundation CMG Research Chair in Fundamental Petroleum Rock Physics and Rock Mechanics
Toronto, ON – University of Toronto Professor Giovanni Grasselli, of the Department of Civil Engineering, has been named the inaugural holder of the Foundation CMG Industrial Research Chair in Fundamental Petroleum Rock Physics and Rock Mechanics. Professor Grasselli is joining 12 chairs at 12 universities, including Penn State and the University of Texas in Austin, in 6 countries that are funded by the Canadian non-profit organization to investigate leading edge research and innovation in oil and gas reservoir modelling. In…