...Case 3: Warehousing Strategy at Volkswagen Group Canada Inc. (VGCA) 6/10/2013 In the article, Volkswagen Groups try to implement an aggressive growth plan. They want to develop a plan to increase their warehousing requirements. Volkswagen Group Canada operated one Parts Distribution Center (PDC) which responsible for storing spare parts, located in Toronto, Ontario. VGCA 2016 Growth Plans included four new model and four new facelifts each year for the next three years for a total of 12 new vehicles and 12 facelifts. 12 new vehicles * 3000 SKU’s = 36,000 12 new facelifts * 1000 SKU’s = 12,000 (36,000+12,000) *75% = 36,000 36,000 new SKU’s in next 5 years. The problem of Volkswagen Groups Canada is that the Toronto Ontario Parts Distribution Center has space for an estimated 16,000 new SKU’s in inventory. During the next 5 years the division of VGCA’s warehouse will need to manage an additional 36,000 SKU’s. There are at least four factors: Timing, Minimize disruptions to the existing facility, Geographic Region and Inventory levels and the cost-effective. They have three alternatives: expanding the existing warehouse, building and leasing a new warehouse and outsource warehousing to a third party. The advantage of the expanding the existing warehouse is the cost is lower than the other two and the time of expanding the warehouse is not too long. It also has the high management control. However, the geography is the most disadvantages for expanding existing...
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...contexts d. Explain the spatial “Outcome” with examples iv. Ex1. a community in Markham (news article) v. Social ecology in this article is described through the changes that occur in this community, and the outcomes of poverty ( drugs, violence etc) <http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2012/06/30/a_markham_street_reveals_much_about_gta_ethnic_enclaves.html> vi. Ex 2. Poverty in canada ‘s top cities “Visible minorities make up roughly the same proportion of the population in the Vancouver CMA as in the Toronto CMA. Yet, Vancouver is slightly less segmented than Toronto, by virtue of having a smaller proportion of its population living in both isolated and mixed/polarized tracts in 2001 (Table 8). The growth of visible minority populations has also translated into increasing minority concentration in Vancouver, except that the trend is towards polarized rather than mixed tracts. As in Toronto, it is South Asians that are more likely to live in both polarized and mixed neighbourhoods, followed by all East Asians and then Filipinos. Other visible minority groups, including blacks,Arabs/West Asians and Aboriginals, were disproportionatelylikely to live in isolated and nonisolated...
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...Share Thanksgiving in Canada This article tells us a new program in Canada which is called “Share Thanksgiving”, launched in Toronto in 2012 by Engineers Without Borders Canada co-founder Parker Mitchell. As everybody knows, Canada is a country of immigrants, and according to Statistics Canada, 1.2 million people immigrated to Canada between 2006 and 2011. One in five people in this country are foreign born. For this great number of recent immigrant families, thanksgiving tradition of Canada seems still unfamiliar. Parker Mitchell, who has traveled around the world and received a lot of generosity in homes abroad, founded this event to bring this to Canada to bridge that gap, by connecting new Canadians with established families to break bread and give thanks. Since last year, also the first year of this program, a lot of original Canadian families joined into this big event, some of them share those stories of the Thanksgiving Day with those new arrivals in this article. By spending a Thanksgiving Day with the established families, the new Canadians feel like they are one part of the country, and those established families think that being a Canadian, they should also share Thanksgiving with a new Canadian. As far as we know, Thanksgiving Day has been a national public holiday in Canada on the second Monday of October since 1957. It is a chance for people to give thanks for a good harvest and other fortunes in the past year. People often use the three-day Thanksgiving weekend...
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...Social services Actions speak louder than words Wherever we live and work around the world, we give back to our communities and reach out to those who need our help. In 2009, Sun Life was proud to contribute more than $2 million to make life a little easier for thousands facing disaster, hunger and economic hardship. Of that amount, more than $1 million was distributed in Canada, made up of corporate donations and matching gifts. These dollar amounts were augmented by thousands of hours of employees and advisors’ volunteer activities. Highlights of their contributions can be found on pages 18 and 19. CAnAdIAn rEd CroSS – dISAStEr rELIEF yWCA toronto – WomEn oF dIStInCtIon AWArdS The Canadian Red Cross is renowned and respected as the first-response agency in disaster relief, at home and abroad. Following a disaster, the Red Cross arrives on the scene, often within hours, and works with governments and other humanitarian organizations to provide survivors with the basics of life: food, clothing, shelter, first aid, emotional support and family reunification. Red Cross services are based on the specific need of the moment and the role it is asked to take in the local disaster response plan. Sun Life has been a financial supporter of the Canadian Red Cross since 1927, and has been proud to contribute to the widespread good it brings wherever it steps in to help. In 2005, we established the Sun Life Financial International Response Fund with the Canadian Red Cross, the first-ever...
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...Q3 2014 | INVESTMENT Colliers International Canada Cap Rate Report New construction Across North America, High Tech firms are migrating to downtown, centrilized regions rather than suburban areas. Historically, technology firms across North America have tended to locate outside of the downtown core, particularly to more suburban regions. This stemmed from less expensive rental rates, lower taxes, large parcels of space, free parking and an industry that had an endless supply of workers more willing to commute. The 1990s saw the creation of technology regions, such as Silicon Valley (California), the Kanata North Business Park (Ontario) and Discovery Parks (British Columbia). As technology has changed, the space requirements and talent working within the industry have evolved. In more recent years, technology companies, particularly web design, program design and e-commerce firms that rely less on hardware and more on software, have begun to move from suburban office parks to established downtowns or up and coming urban neighbourhoods. Although this trend is at quite different stages in various cities across North America, there are a few patterns that are consistently present. Most importantly, a shift has occurred in which the majority of business is conducted through the web, so space needs now focus predominantly on employees and company branding. Many high-tech firms are striving for stimulating, accessible spaces which promote creativity, inspiration...
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...City of Toronto Grants Department Date: November 15, 2011 To: Mayor Rob Ford, Mayor of Toronto cc: Toronto City Council From: Senior Grants Officer Subject: Ford City Grants Fund Application from Toronto Arts Council The Toronto Arts Council has applied to a new fund, the Ford City Grants Fund, which was created for granting funding to non-profit organizations. Successful bidders will receive up to a $50,000 grant to offset costs from their operations and expenditures. This report serves to critically evaluate the Toronto Arts Council and determine whether it is worthy of receiving funding from the new Ford City Grants Fund. It will begin by providing a brief overview of the Toronto Arts Council and its activities, followed by evaluating how the Toronto Arts Council impacts Toronto's society and the need for the organization’s services. Lastly, the memo will conclude by deciding whether to grant the Ford City Grants Fund to the organization. This report is important as the Ford City Grants Fund has limited funds available and up to $50,000 may be granted to the organization, which is a hefty sum considering that money is tight. Furthermore, many organizations are applying for grants due to recent cuts in funding. It is therefore important that only the organizations most deserving of the grant should receive it. A. Overview of Toronto Arts Council 1. Background The Toronto Arts Council is mainly a volunteer-run organization with a small group...
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...Recargables $40 a $100 millones en 5 años Crecimiento compuesto anual del 20% en Canadá. No hay un líder de la categoría. Los Grandes competidores parecen poco interesados en competir en este segmento. La estrategia Product(( Shot( Tecnología NiMH (Híbrido de Metal de Níquel) Duran más de 3 veces más que las alcalinas Recargables hasta 500 veces No tóxicas, mejores para el medio ambiente Cargadores multiformato y baterías recargables Código de color Verde Garantía de satisfacción Precargadas A quién + Dónde + Cuánto + Cómo A quién Buscamos a los usuarios fuertes Hevy Users Los Smith Son muy organizados con sus gastos. Mamá controla el presupuesto y procura no gastar de más. Viven en Woodvine, Toronto, un barrio residencial Papá trabaja. Gana cerca de CAD $60.000 / año Muchas cosas en casa requieren baterías, como el control de la TV, o los cepillos de dientes. Compran pilas cada vez que se acaban Sus compras frecuentes las hacen en Walmart, o en la tienda de conveniencia de su barrio Hevy Users Kevin Viven en Waterfront, Vancouver, Cerca de su universidad...
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...The importance of the Labour movement in Nova Scotia Canadians have experienced low wages, unsafe working conditions and just not having any rights in the workplace. The Toronto Typographical Union went on strike in 1872, which led to the legalization of unions and it gave us the national holiday know as Labour Day. In the 1900’s the Federal Department of Labour was established. The first Minister of Labour, William Lyon Mackenzie King was responsible for making decisions and to know what was going on in each department. Growing up as an African Canadian Black student, I have heard a about a lot of History about Unions and discriminations in the Black communities. Black Canadians have fought hard to have equal rights in the workforce, with having equal pay and having the same opportunities as what their co-workers have. When we talk about racism in the workplace, discrimination of blacks cannot be ignored. Racism is alive and well in Canada, but it is not openly discussed and kept subtle. When we look at the census of Black Canadians, they are more likely to be unemployed, as well as not being paid the same amount of money than the average Canadian would be paid. Black Canadians were not allowed to join unions for almost 70 years after the first Canadian Union was established. Today we now have unions that keep us safe in the workplace, give us equal or fair pay, regardless of what race you are. Now if any of our members experience discrimination in the workplace...
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...Research Paper Racism and Immigration Rémi Drapeau Student ID: C3623 Mailbox # SH649 Work presented to Kimberly Cook, course professor Social Problems & Their Impact on the Workplace BA Organizational Management, OM3413 Degree Completion Program Crandall University April 12th, 2016 Introduction 5 What Is Racism and who does it affect? 6 Challenges in the labour market 8 Who are the Muslims in Canada? 10 Aboriginals in Canada 11 References 13 Introduction Racism, immigration and exclusion are topics that seem to go hand in hand. From what I have learnt in the past few weeks, they are all far more present than I had realized. We see it in schools, justice system, job market etc. In the next few pages I will explain how they correlate in Canada today. More specifically relating to aboriginals and Muslims. Canada is home to more than 200 ethnic groups, with 16% of its population (over five million individuals) identifying as a visible minority. Information from the Census showed that Canada’s visible minority population grew 27% from 2001 to 2006, five times faster than the population as a whole. The diversity of Canada’s population is expected to continue to increase over the next two decades. According to projections by Statistics Canada up to 14.4 million Canadians (or about one-third of the population) will be members of a visible minority by 2031. The religious composition of the country is also changing, with some of the largest...
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...Overview The 5th Annual Student Seminar on Genealogy was held on August 28, 2015 at the Chatham Genealogy Society in Chatham, Ontario, Canada. Each year brings together a new group of selected high school student’s ages 16 to 18 from ten schools across the Greater Toronto Area with an interdisciplinary group of academics and museum curators. Organized by The Village School, in collaboration with the Chatham Genealogy Society, this one-day seminar, a part of the larger initiative of the Chatham Genealogy Society to preserve the history of the thousands of people of African descent who migrated from the United States to Canada during the nineteenth century, aims to expose Toronto high school students to the histories, experiences and contributions...
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...In order for me to to gain more information on my heritage, I decided to interview my Great Grandma, Nancy Buerman. I consider her as my Grandma more than my Great Grandma because she raised my mom and that's how I’ve always known her by. She lives in Topeka, Kansas near Lake Shawnee. Our Buerman name is not the original spelling. The original spelling is Beurmann from what I know of. My Great, Great Grandpa Buermans spelling of his last name changed when he went to battle during World War I. The army spelled it “Buerman.” Since he did not have a birth certificate he didn’t change it back as that was the earliest record of him. My Aunt Bobby said there are 9 different spellings of the Buerman name and we are all related. My interview...
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...been known as a major fashion district that provides a variety of designer stores, musical venues as well as its large concentration of galleries. Throughout constant development and growth over the years, the West Queen West BIA has become one of the most vibrant and renowned commercial areas in the city of Toronto. With the constant growth of this BIA, it is vital to be able to provide adequate transportation throughout the area that will serve the everyday needs of the resident population. To clearly assess this BIA, I went to visit it on two separate occasions. The first visit was on Wednesday, November 11th, 2015 at 6:30pm and the second visit was at Thursday, November...
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...The 1890 book How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis, sought out to expose the horrific conditions that over one million immigrant workers and their families faced in the tenements of New York's East Side slum district. A citizen's movement prompted by the guilty consciouses of the middle class resulted in the creation of the Board Of Health, that passed the 1867 "Tenement House Act". The act mandated the cutting of 46,000 windows into interior rooms solely for ventilation purposes. These renovations were met with opposition from tenement owners as well as by tenants.In many accounts tenants had to be physically dragged out from cellar apartments by police officials. In spite of the Tenement House Act, many renovated buildings had no apparent improvements . New tenements that were constructed after the act still had floor plans that left rooms dark and dank and, over crowding was still permitted. The air inside the tenements were described as " ...fouler than the mud of the gutters" . Response The Awakening chapter chronicles the first steps in making tenements more livable for immigrant tenants. These attempts turned out to be futile and was met by opposition on both sides. Riis gives a matter of fact type tone throughout this small chapter but there is still concern for immigrants that live in the tenements. Riis sees the issue as pervasive as more slums are being created around the entire island. He also questions what will become of the generations to come living in...
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...In a document associated with chapter nineteen; Jacob Riis describes effects of poverty and the abandon babies in the slums of New York. Throughout this document there is are major themes of overpopulation and sacrifice. The theme of overpopulation is constantly emphasized throughout this document because a bunch of babies were being born during this time period. This overpopulation caused an abundance of newborns to die because there were too many being abandoned and weren’t able to be taken care of. Another reoccurring theme would be sacrifice because majority of the babies that were born were unable to be kept by the mother’s because they were extremely poor. Babies were being sacrificed in order for women to be able to maintain their current...
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...LRT’S vs Subways: The Future of Toronto’s Transit In the recent mayoral elections debate, Toronto’s transit sores have once again been reopened, and accusations are flying as the city alterations from one plan to the next, and billions plummet down the drain. All three candidates have very different views on how transit can be improved either by above ground LRT’s or underground Subways. But the question still remains; which transit system should Toronto adopt? Let’s consider the facts. The most obvious deciding factor is the cost. How much do, we the taxpayers, have to dish out? Firstly, Subways are more expensive, costing approximately 250-300 million per km compared to LRT’s which are 85-90 million per km. However, a subway’s life span...
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