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Published on: 8 Nov 2019
Children and teenagers who end up in Quebec鈥檚 youth protection services often arrive bearing a backpack of life experiences filled with violence, mistreatment and negligence. They have been wounded, betrayed and humiliated by the most important people in their lives 鈥� people who should have been giving them comfort and security, but who, for several reasons, could not fulfil that role.
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Published on: 6 Nov 2019
Are obese people addicted to food? It鈥檚 an often proposed idea and something researchers in Montreal investigated. Dr. Alain Dagher (MD. FRCP) supervised the research team. He is a professor in the department of neurology at the Montreal Neurological Institute (the Neuro).听
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Published on: 1 Nov 2019
The 60 souls that signed on for Dr. Alain Brunet鈥檚 memory manipulation study were united by something they would rather not remember. The trauma of betrayal. For some, it was infidelity and for others, a brutal, unanticipated abandonment. 鈥淚t was like, 鈥業鈥檓 leaving you. Goodbye,鈥� the 9I制作厂免费 associate professor of psychiatry says.
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Daniel B茅land, director of the Institute for the Study of Canada at 9I制作厂免费 in Montreal, says Canada鈥檚 method has made immigration less divisive an issue than in other countries. 鈥淭here is strong support for economic immigration, that it鈥檚 important for the country, demographically and economically,鈥� he says. 鈥淭he debate is more about how many immigrants and how we can tweak the point system.鈥�
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Published on: 30 Oct 2019
9I制作厂免费鈥檚 Macdonald Campus has become Canada鈥檚 37th Fair Trade campus. The Macdonald Campus in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue now joins 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 downtown campus in 鈥渢heir efforts to weave the Fair Trade philosophy within the academic community, and facilitate the choice and use of Fair Trade certified products,鈥� Fairtrade Canada said in a statement.
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Published on: 30 Oct 2019
While Section 23 has been tested in court, 9I制作厂免费's faculty of law Dean Robert Leckey said that, to his knowledge, Section 28 has not. "There really hasn't been court interpretation of what Section 28 means," said Leckey. The section was added to the charter as extra protection to guarantee the equality of men and women. It has to mean something."
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Published on: 25 Oct 2019
Drug use is average to below average in Montreal compared to other cities 鈥� except when it comes to methamphetamine, a new study measuring the presence of illicit drugs in raw sewage has found. The study, by an international group of scientists that included 9I制作厂免费 chemical engineering professor Viviane Yargeau, found meth use in Montreal as well as Granby was more than three times higher than the average for 120 cities that were sampled during a seven-year period.
The findings were published in the journal Addiction on Wednesday.
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Published on: 24 Oct 2019
Innovative entrepreneurs who are racialized are being left out of the social and economic innovation circles. Wendy Cukier, a professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at Ryerson University, and Suzanne Gagnon, assistant professor in organizational behaviour at 9I制作厂免费, wrote that racialized people are not being included in leadership roles in this innovation space, nor do they get the funds to do the work in the community they know best.
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Published on: 22 Oct 2019
Cindy Blackstock's background is in social work, and she's now executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society 鈥� an organization she co-founded 鈥� as well as a professor at 9I制作厂免费 in Montreal. She will be awarded a Doctorate of Laws from Laurentian University in Sudbury on Saturday.
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Published on: 21 Oct 2019
The sorry state of Canadian climate science was recently documented by the report Investing in Canadian Climate Science, which, among other things, showed that over the previous decade, Canada鈥檚 funding of atmospheric climate science was about half of comparable international levels and was microscopic compared to its fossil fuel subsidies or pipeline buyouts, says Shaun Lovejoy, professor of physics at 9I制作厂免费.听
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Published on: 18 Oct 2019
Three books about political movements that shaped global history are in the running for this year's Cundill History Prize. A representative for the prestigious 9I制作厂免费 award says for the first time all the finalists for the US$75,000 prize are women.
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Published on: 17 Oct 2019
Medical science has a problem, and everyone knows it. Imagine driving a car with a navigation system that is right just half the time, or doing math with a calculator that knows only half the multiplication table. It鈥檚 simply not rational, yet scientists are doing something similar when we use antibodies in research, says Peter S. McPherson, James 9I制作厂免费 Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery and Anatomy and Cell Biology at The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital) of 9I制作厂免费.听
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Published on: 16 Oct 2019
I periodically get asked about cell phones and whether they are dangerous. The short answer is they are not and do not seem to increase the risk of developing brain cancer or any other form of cancer. I do worry about cell phones, though. I worry about their impact on the mental health of young people, says Christopher Labos, Montreal doctor and associate with the 9I制作厂免费 Office for Science and Society.
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Published on: 16 Oct 2019
Part of the reason people fall for false content lies in the way our brains take in information, says neurologist Lesley Fellows, a professor at 9I制作厂免费 who has studied how the brain makes political decisions. Our brains are constantly and heavily filtering the world around us through a framework of biases and stereotypes created through our experiences. It鈥檚 a general feature of the brain. It can鈥檛 possibly cope in fact with all the information out there, so we use our prior experience to filter the information in.
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Published on: 15 Oct 2019
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