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. 3.1 Ethnicity and language UNDP along with other UN agencies has long enlisted the voluntary services and support of prominent individuals as Goodwill Ambassadors to highlight these causes Their fame helps amplify the urgent and universal message of human development and international cooperation helping to accelerate achievement of the Millennium Development Goals They articulate the UNDP development philosophy and programmes of self-reliant opportunities and motivate people to act in the interest of improving their own lives and those of their fellow citizens Critical reception, The Normal School was founded by Egerton Ryerson in 1847 as the first teacher-training institution in the province it moved into a new building in 1852 on a parcel of semi-rural land eventually bounded by Gerrard Victoria Gould and Church streets In 1852 at the core of the present main campus the historic St James Square Egerton Ryerson founded Ontario's first teacher training facility the Toronto Normal School it also housed the Department of Education and the Museum of Natural History and Fine Arts which became the Royal Ontario Museum An agricultural laboratory on the site led to the founding of the Ontario Agricultural College and the University of Guelph St James Square went through various other educational uses before housing a namesake of its original founder Egerton Ryerson was a leading educator politician and Methodist minister. He is known as the father of Ontario's public school system. He is also a founder of the first publishing company in Canada in 1829 the Methodist Book and Publishing House which was renamed the Ryerson Press in 1919 and today is part of McGraw-Hill Ryerson a Canadian publisher of educational and professional books which still bears Egerton Ryerson's name for its Canadian operations Advances in science and technology brought on by World War II and continued Canadian industrialization previously interrupted by the Great Depression created a demand for a more highly trained population Howard Hillen Kerr was given control of nine Ontario Training and Re-establishment centres to accomplish this His vision of what these institutions would do was broader than what others were suggesting in 1943 he visited the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was convinced Canada could develop its own MIT over one hundred years Along the way such an institution could respond to the society's needs When the Province approved the idea of technical institutes in 1946 it proposed to found several it turned out all but one would be special purpose schools such as the mining school Only the Toronto retraining centre which became the Ryerson Institute of Technology in 1948 would become a multi-program campus Kerr's future MIT of Canada The Toronto Training and Re-establishment Institute was created in 1945 on the former site of the Toronto Normal School at St James Square bounded by Gerrard Church Yonge and Gould the Gothic-Romanesque building was designed by architects Thomas Ridout and Frederick William Cumberland in 1852 the site had been used as a Royal Canadian Air Force training facility during World War II the institute was a joint venture of the federal and provincial government to train ex-servicemen and women for re-entry into civilian life The Ryerson Institute of Technology was founded in 1948 inheriting the staff and facilities of the Toronto Training and Re-establishment Institute in 1966 it became the Ryerson Polytechnical Institute In 1971 provincial legislation was amended to permit Ryerson to grant university degrees accredited by provincial government legislation and by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC). That year it also became a member of the Council of Ontario Universities (COU) in 1992 Ryerson became Toronto's second school of engineering to receive accreditation from the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) the following year (1993) Ryerson formally became a University via an Act of the Ontario Legislature In 1993 Ryerson received approval to also grant graduate degrees (master's and doctorates) the same year the Board of Governors changed the institution's name to Ryerson Polytechnic University to reflect a stronger emphasis on research associated with graduate programs and its expansion from being a university offering undergraduate degrees Students occupied the university's administration offices in March 1997 protesting escalating tuition hikes In June 2001 the school assumed its name as Ryerson University Today Ryerson University offers programs in aerospace chemical civil mechanical industrial electrical biomedical and computer engineering the B.Eng biomedical engineering program is the first stand-alone undergraduate biomedical engineering program in Canada the university is also one of only two Canadian universities to offer a program in aerospace engineering accredited by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) Organization. . 9 External links Toronto Ontario Canada Business directory. .

The Toronto Public School Board (TPSB) was created in 1847 to oversee elementary education in Toronto. However the date of creation of the board is also given as 1850 as this was when trustee elections under a ward system started. Legislation toward the creation of local public school boards began with the School Act of 1844 which stipulated municipal contributions toward the salaries of teachers the Toronto Public School Board continued to govern the city's elementary schools until 1904 when following a city referendum it was merged with the Collegiate Institute Board which oversaw the city's secondary schools and the Technical School Board which oversaw the Toronto Technical School to form the Toronto Board of Education Six trustees were appointed to the original 1847 board by the municipal council of Toronto to serve with the mayor the board was composed entirely of white men until the election of the first female trustee Augusta Stowe-Gullen in 1892 the board was created after the passage of the Common School Act of 1846 spearheaded by Egerton Ryerson architect of both publicly funded schooling and the residential school system the Act also called for the creation of a provincial normal school which would become the Toronto Normal School Prior to the 1846 Common School Act individual schools were governed by boards created under the Grammar School Act of 1807 and the Common Schools Act of 1816. Like all boards of education at the time the Toronto Public School Board was responsible for raising money to fund schools in addition to grants provided by the provincial government However they were not empowered to make these levies compulsory until the passage of the Common School Act in 1850 brought on in part by the closure of schools in Toronto in 1848 due to lack of funds. This act also allowed for the creation of separate schools boards in Ontario including racially segregated schools in Toronto the act allowed for the creation of a Catholic school board which would eventually become today's Toronto Catholic District School Board While elementary schooling across the province was not made free by law until 1871 the 1850 Common School Act allowed for individual boards to entirely fund their schools through public funds the Toronto Public School Board voted to do so in 1851 making elementary schooling in the city free Minutes from the first meetings of the Toronto Public School Board have been preserved by the Toronto District School Board Museum and Archives Schools of the Toronto Public School Board. . . . The Normal School on Gould St 1856, 2 1805 indenture 1991 10,084,885 +10.8% J Scugog Green tick 2 Industrial architecture Barrie CMA (Innisfil Springwater) 148,480 177,061 187,013 197,059 5.4. Part of the series on, 1891 2,114,321 +9.7% The first administrator of the UNDP was Paul G Hoffman former head of the Economic Cooperation Administration which administered the Marshall Plan Other holders of the position have included: Bradford Morse former Republican congressman from Massachusetts; William Draper venture capitalist and friend of George H.W Bush who saw one of the UN system's major achievements the Human Development Report introduced during his tenure; Mark Malloch Brown who was previously Vice President of External Affairs at the World Bank and subsequently became UN Deputy Secretary General Kemal Dervis a former finance minister of Turkey and senior World Bank official was the previous UNDP Administrator Dervis started his four-year term on 15 August 2005 Crime in Toronto has been relatively low in comparison to other major cities in 2017 a ranking of 60 cities by the Economist ranked Toronto as the fourth safest major city in the world and the safest major city in North America a CEOWORLD magazine ranked Toronto as the 95th safest cities in the world for 2018 running behind several other major cities like Tokyo Osaka Singapore Hong Kong and Taipei but ahead of any other city in North America For comparisons to various cities in North America in 2012 for example the homicide rate for the city of Toronto was 2.0 per 100,000 people, yet for Atlanta (19.0) Chicago (18.5) Boston (9.0) San Francisco (8.6) New York City (5.1) and San Jose (4.6) it was higher while it was significantly lower in Vancouver (1.2) in 2007 Toronto's robbery rate also ranked low with 207.1 robberies per 100,000 people compared to Detroit (675.1) Chicago (588.6) Los Angeles (348.5) Vancouver (266.2) New York City (265.9) Montreal (235.3) San Diego (158.8) and Portland (150.5) However in 2018 Toronto had the highest homicide rate among major Canadian cities. Toronto's homicide in 2018 was a record high at a rate was 3.11 per 100,000 people higher than the 3.05 per 100,000 people for that of New York City the number of homicides that year broke the homicide record that was set 27 years prior Contents.