How are changes to Ontario’s education system going to impact students longer term?
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Ontario is home to some of the lushest farmland in Canada. Yet, even when local produce is in season, imported tomatoes and cucumbers dominate store shelves. Nationally, we import over 50 per cent of our vegetables and 95 percent of our fruit. How can locally grown food become more accessible and affordable?
Join us Monday September 19th at the Madison Pub for a talk about the economics of local eating, featuring farmer’s market Manager Cookie Roscoe and Carolyn Young, Program Coordinator at Sustain Ontario.
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The rapid rise of the “sharing economy” (services like Uber, Airbnb) is revolutionizing the way we satisfy our daily needs and completely transforming traditional markets. With customers happily pocketing savings, policy makers are having to respond to these changes. The discussion has slowly shifted from “should we ban Uber?” to “how should we regulate the sharing economy?”
Join us WSIC Uptown on November 11th as we welcome four special guests to share their opinions on the implications of the sharing economy and suggest how policy makers should respond to this economic …
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This past Monday, April 28th, our WSIC audience benefitted from Gord Miller, Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, and Debbie de Lange, Business Strategy Advisor and professor at Ryerson University provide an outlook on Ontario’s Green Economy, why it’s important, and where it is headed.
Mr. Milller began the evening by addressing the key dominant environmental factors we should be aware of today, and which will affect us going forwards:
(i) Burning of fossil fuels and climate change. Weather events in Toronto have become more severe recently and will …
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On Monday, 21 October, WSIC audience members participated in a powerful debate on information privacy in Canada and discussed the level of protection to be afforded to whistleblowers that expose information to the public. WSIC was proud to host Stephen McCammon, counsel to the Ontario Privacy and Information Commissioner, David W. Hutton, Executive Director of FAIR (Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform), and Joanna Gualtieri, the founder of FAIR and a whistleblower who suffered years of harassment as a result of exposing waste of public funds …
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There was a large and lively crowd on Monday to hear a strong discussion about the Toronto Casino proposal.
Rosario Marchese, MPP of Trinity-Spadina (a downtown riding often proposed as a location for the casino), started the evening off with some arguments against a putting a casino so close to residential neighbourhoods. Residents of Liberty Village are worried that a casino at the Ex would “suck the life out” of the area. While Casinos themselves are often vibrant, businesses around them do not remain so. Over …
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On Monday August 29th, join Tim Grant, Rosario Marchese, Sarah Thomson, and Mike Yen for a discussion about the issues surrounding the upcoming election. We will be meeting at the DUKE OF YORK PUB on 39 PRINCE ARTHUR AVE
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