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How are you answering the TRC Calls to Action?
You are now in the main content area Share your reconciliation efforts through the First 10/Next 10 poster series To mark the 10th anniversary of the TRC report, the First 10/Next 10 campaign launched with an information session inviting the TMU community to reflect, respond and take action. This year marks 10 years since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its Final Report and (PDF file) 94 Calls to Action (external link) .
Inside the teaching philosophies of TMU’s 2025 Provost Award recipients
TMU’s 2025 Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence winners highlight how hands-on, innovative and inclusive teaching turns classrooms into spaces for critical thought, connection and meaningful change. This year’s award winners, Jennifer Poole, Janelle Brady and Angela Misri, each empower students to challenge assumptions and shape the world beyond the classroom.
Toronto Met Awards celebrates exceptional faculty and staff
The 2025 team recipient of the President’s Blue and Gold Award of Staff Excellence is the Innovation Boost Zone Team, from left (behind L2M sign): Tabitha Grant, Tarek Sadek, Eden Jing, Wesley Kosiba, Torrey Sirdevan, Ashu Syal, Dan Tim and (in front of L2M sign) Grace Lee. The pursuit of innovation is at the heart of Toronto Metropolitan University’s mission.
Pemberton author Katherine Fawcett releases new book
Author Katherine Fawcett imagines she feels like Paris Hilton after the hotel heiress’s infamous sex tape was released. “It’s out there and it’s in the public,” Fawcett said.
Corn: International Production Benchmarks from 5 Top Exporters
Harvested corn pouring into grain truck. Photo: University of Tennessee Examining the competitiveness of corn production in different regions of the world is often difficult due to lack of comparable data and agreement regarding what needs to be measured. To be useful, international data needs to be expressed in common production units and converted to a common currency. Also, production and cost measures need to be consistently defined across production regions or farms.
Global Wheat Production: 7 Countries Compared - Yield, Gross Revenue, Cost
Examining the competitiveness of wheat production in different regions of the world is often difficult due to lack of comparable data and consensus regarding what needs to be measured. To be useful, international data needs to be expressed in common production units and converted to a common currency. Also, production and cost measures need to be consistently defined across production regions or farms.
International Benchmarks for Wheat Production
By Rachel Purdy and Michael LangemeierCenter for Commercial AgriculturePurdue University Examining the competitiveness of wheat production in different regions of the world is often difficult due to lack of comparable data and consensus regarding what needs to be measured. To be useful, international data needs to be expressed in common production units and converted to a common currency. Also, production and cost measures need to be consistently defined across production regions or farms.
International Benchmarks for Wheat Production
Examining the competitiveness of wheat production in different regions of the world is often difficult due to lack of comparable data and consensus regarding what needs to be measured. To be useful, international data needs to be expressed in common production units and converted to a common currency. Also, production and cost measures need to be consistently defined across production regions or farms.
International Benchmarks for Soybean Production
By Rachel Purdy and Michael LangemeierCenter for Commercial AgriculturePurdue University Examining the competitiveness of soybean production in different regions of the world is often difficult due to lack of comparable data and agreement regarding what needs to be measured. To be useful, international data needs to be expressed in common production units and converted to a common currency. Also, production and cost measures need to be consistently defined across production regions or farms.
Soybeans: Who Makes a Profit? 7 Farms Compared - U.S., Argentina, Brazil, Russia, Ukraine
Examining the competitiveness of soybean production in different regions of the world is often difficult due to lack of comparable data and agreement regarding what needs to be measured. To be useful, international data needs to be expressed in common production units and converted to a common currency. Also, production and cost measures need to be consistently defined across production regions or farms.
International benchmarks for corn production
By Rachel Purdy and Michael Langemeier, Center for Commercial Agriculture Purdue University Source: Purdue University Examining the competitiveness of corn production in different regions of the world is often difficult due to lack of comparable data and agreement regarding what needs to be measured. To be useful, international data needs to be expressed in common production units and converted to a common currency.
International Benchmarks for Corn Production
By Rachel Purdy and Michael Langemeier Center for Commercial AgriculturePurdue University Examining the competitiveness of corn production in different regions of the world is often difficult due to lack of comparable data and agreement regarding what needs to be measured. To be useful, international data needs to be expressed in common production units and converted to a common currency. Also, production and cost measures need to be consistently defined across production regions or farms.
Corn Production: How Competitive is the U.S. vs. Argentina, Brazil, Russia, Ukraine?
Examining the competitiveness of corn production in different regions of the world is often difficult due to lack of comparable data and agreement regarding what needs to be measured. To be useful, international data needs to be expressed in common production units and converted to a common currency. Also, production and cost measures need to be consistently defined across production regions or farms.
A new beginning? | Feature Story | Pique Newsmagazine | Whistler, CANADA
The long-anticipated powder has overtaken Whistler and Blackcomb mountains. From the community below, the line of snow accumulation has been gradually descending the slopes as temperatures drop, invigorating locals and tourists alike in the annual excitement that marks each ski season. This season brings a major difference with the recent sale of Whistler Blackcomb Holdings Inc. (WB) to Vail Resorts.
Stuart Rempel of Whistler Blackcomb looks to the future | Feature Story | Pique Newsmagazine | Whistler, CANADA
When the strategic combination of Whistler Blackcomb (WB) and Vail Resorts was announced last August, WB's senior VP of marketing and sales Stuart Rempel was already intending to retire after the upcoming ski season. "I just turned 64 a little while ago, and I was actually thinking I was going to leave the company maybe last fall," Rempel said over coffee on Nov. 21. "I want to travel.
Whistler's Brothers in Arms | Feature Story | Pique Newsmagazine | Whistler, CANADA
A farmer's field, close to an area once known as the 'Ypres Salient.' It's impossible not to remember. In the clear cool spring night, thousands of kilometres from home, Frazer McGaw can feel his dark tartan kilt swaying in the breeze. Up above, the Big Dipper patterns the dark sky, giving pause for a moment of solitary reflection. Alone... and yet all around him, McGaw can sense the brotherhood of the Canadian Scottish Regiment, past and present, standing by his side.
Brainy Whistler | Feature Story | Pique Newsmagazine | Whistler, CANADA
What do the following have in common: a walrus, a brewmaster, the guy who coined the word "cleantech," and the Australian tree-hugger who got Harry Potter novels to be printed on environmentally friendly paper? The answer is the desire and capacity to innovate when the world stands in your way; a fearless intent to change the status quo. So heard some 200 people sitting in the packed Maury Young Arts Centre (formerly known as Millennium Place) on Oct.
On thin ice | Feature Story | Pique Newsmagazine | Whistler, CANADA
The photos of the first complete circumnavigation of Ellesmere Island by Jon Turk and Erik Boomer don't show the true picture. Those freeze-frame moments of the glass-like Arctic ocean with the azure backdrop were captured as circumstances permitted, and not when the two kayakers were trying to make their way through the narrow bottleneck of rumbling, grinding, smashing ice between Ellesmere Island and Greenland.
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