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CAMH redevelopment

CAMH turns its main Toronto campus into a community to help mental health patients recover quicker

Naheed Mustafa Wednesday, September 15, 2010
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) embarks on a bold new plan for quicker mental health recovery by bringing patients and community together in a redesign of their main Toronto site on Queen West that aims to break down barriers. It's the first of its kind in Canada too.
Double Double Land

Seeing Double Double -- keeping Toronto's lo-fi art scene growing

Nadja Sayej Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Double Double Land in Kensington Market blurs the lines between art gallery, event venue, community hub and soon enough, international artist residency. How one second-floor studio apartment changed the face of the Toronto art scene, one Pay-What-You-Can event at a time.
Bill Young, of Social Capital Partners

Toronto-based company Social Capital Partners is changing Canadian recruitment practices.

Alexandra Shimo Wednesday, September 08, 2010
What would it take to change hiring practices around the world and bring the most disadvantaged, at risk populations back into the workforce? Ten years ago, Bill Young, then a highly successful CEO, started to wonder that question. The result is Social Capital Partners, which in its short life has already greatly changed the world of work.
Bamiyan Kabob

Bamiyan Kabob's Afghan cusine empire grows in and around Toronto

Sarah Elton Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Adrian Joseph of Steam Whistle Brewing Co

Steam Whistle's commitment to hiring new immigrants

Piali Roy Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Toronto's Steam Whistle Brewing has an unusual hiring policy: choose the best person for the job, with or without Canadian experience. In doing so, they say they've made their company and brand stronger.
Mary Gordon of Roots of Empathy

Roots of Empathy, the worldwide program that teaches compassion, has its own roots in Toronto

Carla Lucchetta Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Roots of Empathy, a little school program that began in Toronto with a mission to "change the world one child at a time," has grown into an internationally successful program backed by no less than the Dalai Lama.
Ghassan Halazon of TeamBuy

What's the Deal? Toronto companies are part of the group buying phenomenon

Jaclyn Law Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Group buying sites are popping up in Toronto faster than you can say "half-price sushi rolls." Here's how deal-hunting became a team sport.
David Stein of Rypple

Overthrowing the performance review: Toronto's Rypple makes waves in the HR department

Paul Gallant Wednesday, August 18, 2010
If Facebook can make you feel good about your relationships, why can't Rypple make you feel good about your workplace? This Toronto company is applying social media to the office.
Hadi Mahabadi of the Xerox Research Centre of Canada

Hadi Mahabadi of Xerox Canada explains how skilled immigrants help push innovation

Edward Keenan Wednesday, August 18, 2010
With researchers from 37 countries, the Xerox Research Centre of Canada's "diversity of thought" strategy, adopted in 2004, has resulted in a 17 per cent year-over-year increase in the number of its patent ideas.
Mongrel Media

Toronto's film industry: Mongrel Media and Hussain Amarshi Score Again at TIFF

Marc Glassman Wednesday, August 11, 2010
The founder of multicultural Toronto-based and internationally successful film distribution company Mongrel Media is a practical idealist whose newest feature, Score, will open the Toronto International Film Festival next month.
Farm in the Village

Farming in the city: how urban agriculture is slowly growing in Toronto

Anna Olejarczyk Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Interest in cultivating organic vegetables is growing around the GTA and is both a choice for entrepreneurs looking for a new career and a way to teach youth new skills. Yonge Street talks to one of those new farmers as well as Justin Di Ciano, who runs the "Farm-in-the-Village" program.
Wexford Heights

There's a village in that stripmall: a slideshow and essay wandering Wexford's main strip

Bert Archer Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Wexford used to be a village and though now found in the middle of Scarborough, it still is, but it might not look like you expect it to. Part of our series on neighbourhood strips, take a tour of a Wexford stripmall with Yonge Street's Bert Archer and Tanja Tiziana in words and pictures.
Ken Sun

Anatomy of a Chinese restaurant: how Sun's Kitchen in Markham's Pacific Mall started and evolved

Alexandra Shimo Wednesday, August 04, 2010
After years of serving western style food to please their customers, a Markham chef wows the city with his traditional "la main" noodles, and passes on the thousand-year tradition. Pacific Mall, an informal incubator for new immigrant businesses, is a perfect location.
Jeremy Friedberg of Spongelab Interactive

"No ma, this game is helping me learn" - Toronto's serious gaming companies have kids thinking

Joseph Wilson Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Imagine Guitar Hero for your brain: Toronto companies Wero Creative and Spongelab Interactive are creating computer games that are both fun and get kids learning too.
Erich Shih

Not all resumes are treated equally: how Toronto's skilled immigrants are getting hired

Paul Gallant Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Toronto is tapping into its skilled immigrant talent by, in part, training human resources professionals to recognize and hire from this neglected pool of smart and ready-to-work people.
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