September 30, 2020 | "But don鈥檛 expect Tuesday鈥檚 debate between the two men running for the U.S. presidency 鈥� Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden 鈥� to make much of a difference to the election outcome. Or any difference at all. That鈥檚 because American presidential debates 鈥� a relatively recent addition to White House campaigns, first coming in 1960, some 172 years after the initial U.S. election 鈥� seldom produce important turning points."
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Published on: 30 Sep 2020
September 28, 2020 | "The best time for governments to spend on major infrastructure projects is when the long-term benefits are high and when the cost of financing the projects is low. Both of these conditions apply today, and likely will for several more years."
In this article, Max Bell School Director Chris Ragan elaborates on the allocation of public funds towards infrastructural development, and argues that Canada should look towards projects that reap long-term benefits over short-term satisfaction.聽
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Published on: 28 Sep 2020
September 25, 2020聽|聽In this article, Kevin Carmichael proposes that, while the Bank of Canada has done an excellent job of containing inflation, it may have erred too often on the side of caution.
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Published on: 25 Sep 2020
September 23, 2020 | With the onset of the Bank of Canada's mandate renewal, and聽economic uncertainty due to COVID-19, many Canadians are left wondering what the future of monetary policy will look like for the country.聽Read why聽H茅l猫ne Baril says the time is right to open the debate on the role of the central bank with insights from speakers at the Max Bell School's ongoing Choosing the Right Target conference.
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Published on: 23 Sep 2020
Max Bell School Director Chris Ragan and Professor Stephen Gordon of Universit茅 Laval penned this opinion piece to highlight the importance of monetary policy and the upcoming revision of the Bank of Canada's mandate. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect many spheres of public policy, the Bank of Canada will need to carefully consider all policy objective alternatives.
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Published on: 17 Sep 2020
Christopher Ragan, director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy at 9I制作厂免费, joins The Hot Room to take them聽through Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem's speech on the Bank's role in the economic recovery.聽
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Published on: 15 Sep 2020
September 3, 2020 | As far as the Bank of Canada聽is concerned, the economy works best when cost of consumed goods and services聽increases聽at a rate of about two per cent every year. In this article by The Kingston Whig Standard, Max Bell School Director Chris Ragan shared his thoughts on the Bank of Canada's options for the future of monetary policy.
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Published on: 3 Sep 2020
9I制作厂免费 pressed ahead with its plans聽to open a new satellite campus for its Faculty of Medicine in the Outaouais聽this week, despite challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Approximately 20 medical students attended their first classes at the campus on Monday, while four others attended class virtually. The satellite campus,聽which is attached to the emergency department of the聽Gatineau Hospital,聽was聽announced back in 2016 in聽a bid to keep more doctors in the region. Students can now complete their four-year undergraduate medical education in French at the Outaouais campus.
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Published on: 25 Aug 2020
"The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) recently unveiled the recipients of its fall 2019 round of聽Partnership Grants, including two 9I制作厂免费-led projects, totalling $5 million. SSHRC also unveiled the recipients of the round鈥檚聽Partnership Development Grants聽and聽Postdoctoral Fellowships, in which 18 9I制作厂免费 applicants received over $2 million in funding."
Published on: 25 Aug 2020
Read the 9I制作厂免费 Reporter's coverage of CAnD3's formation under the leadership of Prof. Am茅lie Quesnel-Vall茅e.
"The Canadian population is aging. For the first time in our history, people 65 and up outnumber those 14 and under. To adapt to this unprecedented demographic shift, we must reimagine our health and social systems.
Published on: 25 Aug 2020
New findings out of 9I制作厂免费 in Montreal have revealed a potential way to overcome aggressive brain tumours' resistance to therapy: by deleting a specific gene. Researchers have long been searching for ways to treat Glioblastomas 鈥� the most stubborn type of brain tumour 鈥� as they鈥檙e well known for their resistance to treatment. A few years back, they were able to聽confirm the key role a gene called the OSMR gene plays聽in the process of brain cancer growth.
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Published on: 20 Aug 2020
Biologists now have a better idea of the origin of birds and the evolution of flight, two iconic events in the history of life on earth, thanks to work by a group of international scientists including a 9I制作厂免费 professor. In updating the evolutionary tree, the team鈥檚 findings show some dinosaurs could fly before they evolved into birds, and many others were experimenting with powered flight.
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Published on: 13 Aug 2020
Canadian and international scientists are joining forces to promote research into how聽COVID-19聽affects the central nervous system, as they strive to understand whether and how the new coronavirus and other respiratory viruses could lead to lasting brain damage. Brought together as part of a new initiative called VINEx, created by Rocket Science Health, a Victoria-based medical devices company, the group is aiming to lead the charge in understanding how viruses invade the brain 鈥� an area of study that has received relatively little attention.
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Published on: 13 Aug 2020
August 10, 2020 | The Canadian Museum for Human Rights has聽joined the ranks聽of other Canadian cultural聽institutions that are facing accusations of聽discrimination and harassment. Pervasive and systemic bias has been聽reported in many instances; from聽inadequate representation of Indigenous perspectives, to the censorship of LGBTQ2+ content, to many other incidents of racism, homophobia, and sexism experienced by staff members.
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Published on: 12 Aug 2020
August 6, 2020 | Social media and other digital聽platforms have begun to overtake traditional journalism as our primary sources of information. The communications difficulties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic have聽demonstrated how this trend will prove to have drastic consequences on the reliability of information in our democracies. Max Bell School Professor Taylor Owen co-authored this op-ed with Ben Scott, in which they look at how聽misinformation, disinformation, online hate, state propaganda and partisan news result from our current information ecosystem.
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Published on: 10 Aug 2020
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