Marielle Gosset and Nicolas Viltard were representing the Megha-Tropiques mission at the 5th GPM-Ground Validation workshop in Toronto, Canada. The workshop took place at Environment Canada from the 10th to the 12th of July and held about 80 participants from all over the world. Two presentation were given on behalf of the Megha-Tropiques Science team, one on the mission status update and the other one on the validation activities.