Topic: The evolution of retail business: Bloor Street between Spadina and Christie For the past 30 years, Prof. Martin J. Osborne has conducted an annual survey of street-level businesses on Bloor Street between Spadina and Christie. For each business, he has recorded its name, the type of goods or services it offers, and any ethnic […]

Topic: Noise Cameras: New Tech to Solve an Old Problem Are you tired of the loud vehicles on our streets? Many are! Join us to hear from the manufacturer of noise cameras that are in use in 8 cities on 3 continents, including New York City. Speaker: Reuben Peckham is Director of Intelligent Instruments, which produces SoundVue cameras. He has […]

Topic: Empowering Climate Action in Every Language This presentation introduces a powerful Multilingual Climate Chatbot, designed to bridge the gap in climate education for all Torontonians, especially youth and marginalized communities. Built on advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture, this chatbot uses fine-tuned embedding models and hybrid search to cut through the disjointed, jargon-heavy climate information […]