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Homelessness Interventions Needed For Older People

The Horizons Tracker

Research from Simon Fraser University highlights how better support is desperately needed for this vulnerable group. The research builds on a pilot study that examined the impact of interventions targeted at people over 50 in a number of Canadian cities that have experienced a significant rise in homelessness among older people.

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Low Wages Resulted In Women Leaving The Workforce During Covid

The Horizons Tracker

The Covid pandemic has had a profound impact on the workforce, with recent research from Simon Fraser University highlighting how many people have left the workforce. The study reveals that around 350,000 Canadian women have lost their job during Covid and have yet to return to work.

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New Game Aims To Improve Understanding Of The Causes Of Poverty

The Horizons Tracker

New research from Simon Fraser University highlights the potential for games to improve matters. Poverty is a hugely complex topic that is ripe for misunderstanding, both among policy makers and the general public, with this misunderstanding leading to bungled attempts to tackle it successfully.

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Pre-Print Studies Not Labelled As Such During Covid

The Horizons Tracker

New research from Simon Fraser University highlights how seldom the media document such papers as preprint when covering them. The normal publishing process would not allow sufficient expediency to this process, so many papers have been published as preprint research that has not been peer-reviewed.

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Building Emotional Competencies In Our Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

The impact these two neurological factors have on our employees can be best appreciated in the findings made by researchers from Simon Fraser University.

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Fortune Favors the Prepared, and Hiring Managers Favor the Fortunate

Harvard Business Review

Simone Foxman of Quartz tells the story of a couple whose son committed suicide at age 21; Facebook gave them limited rights to their son’s content, but only after a months-long legal nightmare. Now Ackman is out too , and Fraser P. The executor of your will (you had a will, right?)

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How Beacons Are Changing the Shopping Experience

Harvard Business Review

in the House of Fraser, Hawes & Curtis, Bentalls, and Jaeger, and will soon come to stores in the U.S. Simon Malls. For beacon recognition, the mall owner is using its own Simon Malls app, which already contains mall information ranging from maps to dining options. The beaconed-mannequins are in the U.K. Regent Street.

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