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Population aging is prompting concern over the viability of public pension systems in many Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations. In Canada, over the past 2 decades, one response has been to significantly increase immigration, increasing the immigrant share of the population. However, policy and academic analyses have largely overlooked the aging of the immigrant population. This study aims to document disparities in low-income rates and labour market outcomes between immigrants and non-immigrants at older ages, focusing on the intersectionality of immigration status, racial identity and gender.

We employ the 2021 Canadian Census to undertake a descriptive analysis of low-income patterns and the underlying income sources.

Compared to non-racialized non-immigrant men, seniors’ low-income rates increase with each of immigrant, racialized and female status – and the effects are cumulative. Low-income differences are linked to variations in prime-age employment and earnings, and access to pension benefits for immigrants. To a large extent, the gaps are driven by variations in Canada Pension Plan (CPP) benefits, mostly due to limited years of Canadian residency.

We characterize differences in low income across eight population subgroups and examine the complete set of tax-relevant income sources to understand how each underlying income stream is associated with the observed differences in low income. We emphasize the intersectionality between immigration status and racial identity, and how both vary by gender.

The purpose of this article is to elicit understanding of how forgiveness, religion and spirituality, and relationships can better our lives. It draws from the life of Everett L. Worthington, Jr, a positive psychologist and Commonwealth Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has published almost 50 books and over 500 scholarly articles or chapters.

This is a case study, followed by a ten-question interview. The core methodology is positive autoethnography which is embraced by Worthington to reveal life lessons from things he has done.

Worthington reveals a life honoring the interwoven lives of people. He has studied forgiveness intensively and finds it to be an essential way of making our way in the world and in a world community that all too often hosts hurt.

An extensive literature has developed to understand what forgiveness is, how it comes about naturally and how the REACH Forgiveness method can help people who struggle to forgive themselves or others, and do it more quickly, thoroughly and frequently. Forgiving has psychological, social, spiritual and physical benefits to the forgiver.

This article is filled with practical information on how to forgive and how to pursue eudaemonia, which Worthington defines as virtue for oneself.

Forgiveness has widespread social implications. Good relationships are those that can help form, maintain, grow and repair when damaged close emotional bonds. Forgiveness helps repair, maintain and grow those bonds.

Worthington has been instrumental in the establishment and growth of the subfield of forgiveness studies and in the study of humility.

Over halfway through the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, SDG16’s promise of access to justice for all remains a distant pipe-dream. Progress has been limited as the COVID-19 pandemic, new armed conflicts, and rising authoritarianism have in many jurisdictions exacerbated justice problems and hobbled institutional responses. Reversing these negative trends and closing the justice gap will require new ways of conceptualizing and delivering justice services, taking a people-centered, problem-solving approach that draws on data about people’s justice needs and marshals multi-disciplinary expertise, cross-sectoral collaboration, and innovative policy tools to solve them. Drawing on the analysis of an unprecedented global legal needs survey covering over 100 countries, this chapter describes this challenge and highlights the critical role that institutions of higher education can play in stimulating and supporting the much-needed transformation of our justice systems. It profiles exemplary initiatives at colleges and universities bringing their capabilities to bear on the justice challenge and draws lessons learned for institutions looking to follow suit. In doing so, institutions of higher education can not only help close the justice gap but also build trust in justice institutions and contribute to a rejuvenation of the human rights movement.

This paper reports the results of an investigation of the use of instalment land contracts (ILCs) in the Montgomery County, Ohio commercial real property market.

Generalised spatial two-stage least squares regression is used to analyse data from 164 ILC financed commercial property transactions and 918 traditionally financed commercial property transactions, all of which were initiated between January 1, 2016 and December 31, 2023.

In our sample, the use of ILCs for the acquisition of commercial real estate is concentrated on relatively low-value properties. A bargaining power imbalance was discovered; the price ILC vendees promised to pay was more than buyers using traditional financing paid for similar property.

The results suggest that some commercial property investors use ILCs because they cannot qualify for a loan from an institutional lender, and some may benefit from the additional regulations that ILC critics have proposed.

This is the first published empirical study of ILC use in a local commercial property market.

Organisations increasingly rely on professional interim managers (PIMs), i.e. independent contractors who perform managerial work. These managers, who are usually very experienced and skilled, could help organisations drastically improve their performance. However, research has found that they often fail to do so, indicating that PIMs face unique on-the-job challenges that challenge their capability to be effective managers. In the study reported in this paper, I explored PIMs’ on-the-job challenges and how they overcome them. To better understand the various on-the-job challenges, I developed the concept of the liability of outsiderness.

I applied an exploratory approach and conducted 32 interviews with 21 PIMs.

I uncovered three on-the-job challenges common and unique to PIMs – communicating the contract status and contract period, being quick off the mark and attaining power – and the ways they overcome these challenges.

This paper reports findings and theory that provide several valuable guidelines for practitioners involved with interim management.

Interim management has received little scholarly attention despite its increasing relevance. Empirical research, particularly on PIMs in executive positions, is lacking. This leaves us with little evidence to base our theories and guidelines for interim management. The study reported in this paper adds novel insights to an under-researched but important field of management. The study also introduces the liability of outsiderness concept, which holds much promise for future studies of interim management.