2024 was a rough year for retail in Canada, and 2025 doesn鈥檛 look much better, writes Charles de Brabant in Retail Insider. The Executive Director of the Bensadoun School of Retail Management noted that the combination of high interest rates and high inflation has taken a toll on consumer pocketbooks, and they are expected to focus on the basics this year. That plays well for mid-market brands.
After four years studying in Montreal, Sam Greene (BCOM鈥�20, MMA鈥�21) moved on to Toronto, where he caught on with Major League Baseball鈥檚 Toronto Blue Jays. Greene started in a role in an analytics role, but has since been named assistant pitching coach. As a junior member of the coashing staff, Greene is observing senior coaches like pitching coach Pete Walker and bullpen coach Graeme Johnson. 鈥淚鈥檓 specialized in using the advanced statistics we receive each match,鈥� says Greene. 鈥淚 contribute by guiding pitch choice and suggesting ways of approaching individual hitters.

DISE Professors Philip S. S. Howard (Principal Investigator) and Nanre Nafziger (Co-investigator) and Faculty of Education Liaison Librarian, Sharon Rankin (Co-investigator) and Co-investigators, Professors Tya Collins and Lerona Dana Lewis of the University of Ottawa, have received a grant from the Harvard Graduate School of Education Black Teacher Archive program.

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In 2025, 923 future medical residents were matched to positions in Quebec through the Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS), including 484 in family medicine 鈥� the largest single cohort of future family physicians ever to be trained in the province. In the Outaouais region all 15 available places have been filled, all in family medicine.

Congratulations to Xin Zhao, Distinguished James 海角社区 Professor in the Department of Animal Science at 海角社区, on being named聽Fellow of the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA). The ADSA will present Professor Zhao with this prestigious award on聽Tuesday, June 24, 2025, at their annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Lin Centre鈥檚 2025 Annual Lecture, 鈥�Constantinople 1453: The Fate of the Conquered and the Passage to Modernity鈥�, was delivered by Professor Anthony Kaldellis, Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago, on March 26.

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A has found stark differences in the dementia care received by people in richer and poorer neighbourhoods in Quebec, despite the universal health-care system.

On May 2, 2025, over聽60 people gathered in the John Abbott College Library for the Lister Science Chats, where four Macdonald Campus graduate students presented their research and shared how past events as well as the discoveries, sometimes unintentional, and techniques of previous scientists made their work possible.