November 27, 2019 | In this opinion piece, it is argued how聽an escalating carbon price over the years accompanied by rebates, as shown by Chris Ragan,听is the most transparent and the least costly for the economy and taxpayers.
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Published on: 28 Nov 2019
November 27, 2019 | Chris Ragan, Director of the Max Bell School says quadrupling Canada's carbon price by 2030 is the easiest and most cost-effective way for the country to meet its climate targets.
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Published on: 28 Nov 2019
November 27, 2019 | Director of the Max Bell School Chris Ragan on why the time is right for a serious conversation about how best to bridge the gap between Canada鈥檚 current emissions and our 2030 target.
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Published on: 28 Nov 2019
November 27, 2019 |聽The Ecofiscal Commission says聽Canada will either have to raise carbon prices to $210 per tonne or adopt more expensive policies funded by higher income taxes to meet its 2030聽targets.
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Published on: 27 Nov 2019
November 27, 2019 | The Ecofiscal Commission's latest report says that if Canada were to meet its 2030 targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions through carbon pricing, it must more than quadruple its carbon tax and rebate the revenues to consumers.
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Published on: 27 Nov 2019
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Published on: 26 Nov 2019
"Because of Canada's alliance with the United States, there might be some pressure to adopt or toe a very similar line to the United States," said David Kuan-Wei Chen, executive director of the Centre for Research in Air and Space Law at 9I制作厂免费. "But so far, I think the political leadership and people at the Department of National Defence have resisted that."
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Published on: 25 Nov 2019
"The field of global health has evolved from colonial and military medicine, tropical medicine and international health. While it is evolving for the better, research shows that global health is still struggling to shake off its colonial past", says Madhukar Pai, Director of Global Health & professor at 9I制作厂免费, in an聽article he wrote in The Conversation.
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Published on: 22 Nov 2019
A project testing metal combustion developed by the Alternative Fuels Laboratory at 9I制作厂免费 is set to launch Friday morning on a European Space Agency rocket. The project, in cooperation with the Canadian Space Agency and Airbus Defence and Space, will launch aboard a Texus-56 rocket from Esrange, Sweden, at 3 am Montreal time.
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Published on: 15 Nov 2019
British scholar Julia Lovell has won a prestigious history writing prize run by 9I制作厂免费 for a book on the global impact of Chinese communist ideology. The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian was awarded the US$75,000 Cundill History Prize at a Montreal gala Thursday evening.
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Published on: 15 Nov 2019
The study, published in Nature Climate Change, says permafrost thaw in the region will likely drive "abrupt" climate change that will happen with "little or no warning." Most alarming, the authors found the severity of wildfires in the Northwest Territories and Yukon could double from one year to the next and stay at that higher rate.
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Published on: 13 Nov 2019
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Published on: 13 Nov 2019
Science Exposed is a contest organized by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and devoted exclusively to images of scientific research, in all fields of study. Daniel Almeida, 9I制作厂免费 student, won the #ScienceExposed 2019 Jury Prize and People鈥檚 Choice Award for his research image 鈥淟a reazione nera (The black reaction)鈥�. Nuwan Hettige,听Alex Diaz-Papkovich 补苍诲听Sheri McDowell,听are also among of the 20 finalists.聽
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Published on: 12 Nov 2019
Am茅lie Quesnel-Vall茅e, a panel member and medical sociologist at 9I制作厂免费 in Montreal, said the group looked to the 2003 SARS outbreak as an example of how public behaviour changed and people reduced their interactions in response to an increased risk of being exposed to a dangerous pathogen. She added that there would be additional impacts from people foregoing routine surgeries such as hip and knee replacements because of the growing risk of contracting a drug resistant infection while in hospital.
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Published on: 12 Nov 2019
New research is shedding light on how the brain interacts with music. It also highlights how challenging it is to study the issue effectively due to the highly personalized nature of how we interpret it. "Music is very subjective," says Dr. Daniel Levitin, a professor of neuroscience and music at 9I制作厂免费 in Montreal and author of the bestselling book This is Your Brain on Music. "People have their own preferences and their own experience and to some extent baggage that they bring to all of this 鈥� it is challenging."
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Published on: 11 Nov 2019
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