Posts in Education
Corporate Real Estate (CRE): Advancing the profession in a rapidly shifting environment

Corporate real estate (CRE) professionals from across North America will come together in Anaheim, California, October 27 to 29, for the 2025 CoreNet Global Summit, North America. These CRE practitioners will be sharing strategies for preparing for the future during a time of significant change. A key theme will be driving innovation amid shifting workforce needs, new economic pressures, and the heightened focus on sustainability and inclusivity in the buildings and other facilities in which employees work.

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Innovative partnership approach catalyzing climate resiliency

When areas in Bedford, Nova Scotia, experienced more than 250 millimetres of rain in just days in July 2023, the resulting devastation caused country-wide alarm. Considered one of the highest impact flash floods in Canadian history, the incident served as a stark reminder how extreme weather events increasingly place communities at risk.

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Roots of tomorrow: Canada’s forests need our support

On this Earth Day, the significance of forests for conservation, community benefits and human health has never been more urgent to acknowledge. Forests play many critical roles for nature and people: they provide habitat for hundreds of species, act as water filters, reduce air pollution, and are places of community connection, recreation and refuge. They regulate temperature and weather patterns, and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Bridging the gap between university and practice

Students entering a law degree program have already proven their considerable intellectual capacity by obtaining a first degree, achieving a high grade-point average and passing the LSAT.

What awaits them at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) is a rigorous three-year, 60-credit course, where a strong foundation of knowledge of the law is complemented by ample opportunity to practise skills and competencies outside the classroom, says Daleen Millard, dean of TRU’s Faculty of Law.

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Ramping up momentum with policies and mindset changes


How is the building materials industry preparing for a low-carbon future?

There has been a push to improve the environmental performance of the built environment, for example, through reducing embodied carbon in buildings as well as reducing the emissions associated with materials production. Our goal is to make buildings sustainable, so we offer lots of low-carbon solutions, including the world’s broadest range of green cement.

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