@UofTGRO Chief of Government Relations
Joined November 2011
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Forrest Parlee retweeted
9 Jul 2025
Canada’s support for discovery research ensures that Canadians have the knowledge & means to pursue their greatest ambitions. That support has created a legacy of innovation that includes breakthroughs like lithium-ion batteries, quantum cryptography, and artificial intelligence.
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Powering Canada’s innovation engine:
#NSERC makes record-breaking $660 million investment in discovery research to support researchers and their teams of highly qualified personnel across the country.
▶️ tinyurl.com/mwhxjhpk
#NSERCsupport
ALT IMAGE: Abstract background in hues of turquoise and purple. Thin white frame with rounded corners. Text in big white characters in the middle: "More than $660 million for Discovery Research" and the logo of Canada, in white, at the bottom right.
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Forrest Parlee retweeted
11 May 2025
President Rhonda McEwen writes in University Affairs on Canada’s productivity gap and the role universities must play in closing it. She calls for deeper collaboration between higher education, industry and government. Read the full article here: universityaffairs.ca/opinion…
ALT A collage: On the left, President Rhonda McEwen smiles for the camera. On the right, an illustration of colourful gears signifying innovation and change.
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Forrest Parlee retweeted
9 May 2025
Great to host Deputy Minister Susanna Laaksonen-Craig @ONenergy for a recent tour of @UofT’s TMS Lab & CAPE
These labs are conducting battery research with industry partners like @jule_power & ensuring grid resiliency
To learn more, click here: gro.utoronto.ca/policy-in-th…
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Forrest Parlee retweeted
26 Mar 2025
It would also be helpful if @CitImmCanada did not subject employers in strategic sectors (incl universities) to measures like this, which make it harder to recruit mid-career/senior talent to Canada: iccimmigration.ca/what-happe…
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Forrest Parlee retweeted
26 Mar 2025
The next federal government, of either party, ought to make such skilled-talent drains easier (it's actually extremely hard):
- Create a new Canada Scholars program to fund incoming faculty
- Ease the huge moving tax penalty
- Make it legally possible for them to buy a house
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Forrest Parlee retweeted
4 Feb 2025
Fintech is breaking down barriers and unlocking liquidity in underserved markets. @somseif, CEO @PurposeInvest, Susan Christoffersen, Dean, @rotmanschool, Brent Allen, EVP @IGWealthMgmt, and Uzayr Jeenah, Partner @McKinsey discuss the future of digital lending and AI-powered financial tools.
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Forrest Parlee retweeted
3 Feb 2025
Free trade between Canada and the U.S. began with integration of the two countries' auto industries. @rotmanschool 's Dimitry Anastakis spoke to the @TheHubCanada about that history earlier this fall. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcas…
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Forrest Parlee retweeted
16 Jan 2025
#UofT to host new national hub to advance life sciences breakthroughs ➡️ uoft.me/bcP
ALT The new health hub will build on the university's track record of supporting research commercialization including events such as AcceleratorFest (pictured above), held in September 2024
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Forrest Parlee retweeted
13 Jan 2025
“Who’s Subsidizing Whom?” I have written a new report for the Centre for Future Work @futurework_cda rebutting Trump’s arguments that the U.S. “subsidizes” Canada through its bilateral trade deficit: centreforfuturework.ca/wp-co…. #cdnecon #cdnpoli #canlab /2
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Forrest Parlee retweeted
21 Dec 2024
Insightful article written by @C_Mulroney on our government’s enterprise-wide effort to attract and retain tech jobs, capital, and AI innovation.
Ontario is adding 75% more affordable energy to the grid to power growth as the tech workforce in Toronto-Waterloo-Ottawa region surpassed Silicon Valley for the first time.
@UofT’s emergence as a global centre of deep learning and revolutionary AI research, coupled with Ontario’s bold plan to add more clean power to the grid will ensure we solidify our global position for generations.
21 Dec 2024
Caroline Mulroney: Ontario needs to become a global leader in artificial intelligence nationalpost.com/opinion/car…
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Forrest Parlee retweeted
21 Nov 2024
Randall Denley: In five years, 100,000 Ontario students won't find university spots. That spells trouble nationalpost.com/opinion/den…
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Forrest Parlee retweeted
23 Oct 2024
It was great to host @fordnation this morning @UofT’s Academic Wood Tower, our 14 story mass timber building currently under construction next to Varsity Stadium. Thanks to our builder, @Pomerleau, and all the trades on site to welcome the Premier and his team to #UofT
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Forrest Parlee retweeted
22 Oct 2024
Upgraded SciNet supercomputer will attract highly skilled workers to Ontario and provide researchers across Canada with cost effective computing resources. utoronto.ca/news/u-t-receive…
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Forrest Parlee retweeted
7 Oct 2024
The @UofT enrolls more than 5000 new international undergrad students each year. This beautiful and touching documentary reminds us that each and every one of them is an individual, with his own dreams, her own worries, their own excitement.
utoronto.ca//news/first-48-h…
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26 Sep 2024
University of Toronto ranked fourth best in the world for scientific research as Chinese universities make major gains - The Hub thehub.ca/2024/09/26/univers…
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Forrest Parlee retweeted
24 Sep 2024
#ScarbTO's first-ever medical school @UTSC made possible by our govt in 2022, got a $25M funding boost for its building complex! Kudos to Myron & Berna Garron for their generosity in support of our shared vision to expand medical education for a strong local healthcare workforce.
ALT MPP delivering remarks on behalf of Premier Doug Ford
ALT MPP Cho in a group photo with MPP Aris Babikian (Scarborough-Agincourt), delegates of the Garron family, and representatives from University of Toronto, University of Toronto Scarborough, Scarborough Health Network, Michael Garron Hospital and Scarborough Academy of Medicine
ALT MPP Cho addressing the audience at the announcement
ALT Meric Gertler, President of the University of Toronto, delivering his remarks
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Forrest Parlee retweeted
26 Aug 2024
In the last year, Ontario has seen $869-million in #artificialintelligence R&D and 384 companies invest in AI. Now @VectorInst is focused on getting the technology right for Canada vectorinstitute.ai/wp-conten…
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Forrest Parlee retweeted
14 Aug 2024
ICYMI: The West is now ‘competing head-on with Chinese manufacturers’: @UofT’s @JosephWongUT on China’s EV threat and the prospects of a new ‘Cold War’
This episode was made possible by the University of Toronto and the generosity of listeners like you.
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