Toronto, January 10, 2012 – For this first time in its 24-year history, the Queen’s Entrepreneurs’ Competition (QEC) will take place in Toronto. Previously held on campus in Kingston, the competition finals move to Toronto to provide greater accessibility for the competition’s international competitors, judges and speakers.

Kingston– The Common Ground Coffee Shop was the setting for the Queen’s Accounting Association’s casual mentoring event held September 21. The ‘Coaching Coffee Session’ matched 25 fourth-year Commerce students with second- and third-year Commerce students interested in the accounting industry.

Kingston and Picton: The Creative Rural Economy – From Theory to Practice conference is unique. The multi-location conference offers participants an opportunity to experience sessions in a university setting as well as in the heart of creative rural Ontario – Prince Edward County.

Businessweek magazine has once again ranked Queen’s MBA as the top Canadian business school, finishing second overall for international schools in the biennial business school ranking.

Queen’s Professor Steven Salterio (left), newly appointed editor of Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR), and Dean David Saunders talk with the journal’s founding editor, Professor Haim Falk, Open University and Tel Aviv University, at the 25th annual CAR Conference held in Kingston November 5-6, 2010. CAR was recently added to the Financial Times prestigious list of the top academic journals in the world.