August 7, 2019 | A report published by the Digital Democracy Project suggests that overall misinformation levels in Canada are low. However, certain trends in media consumption put news consumers and voters more at risk to be misinformed about key political issues. To learn more about how information and disinformation flow through journalistic and social media channels in the run-up to the October federal election, read the .
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Published on: 8 Aug 2019
August 8, 2019 | A survey launched by the Digital Democracy Project聽found that most Canadians across the political spectrum got a common set of facts from an array of mainstream media outlets. The report also highlighted voters' tendencies to select and consume news from sources聽that support their political beliefs, generating so-called echo chambers.
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Published on: 8 Aug 2019
August 8, 2019 | The聽Digital Democracy Project, an initiative of聽Max Bell School of Public Policy in collaboration with the Public Policy Forum, analyzes the increasing amounts of disinformation and hate in the digital public sphere. A new study shows the links between political affiliation and misinformation. Among other findings, it was shown that voters with strong political affiliation tended to be more frequently聽misinformed about political issues than voters with a looser political affiliation.
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Published on: 8 Aug 2019
August 8, 2019 | In an age where information is increasingly scrutinized yet more easily diffusable than ever, Canadians might be more misinformed than disinformed. New findings from the Digital Democracy Project聽show聽how information ricochets around the Canadian political landscape. Learn more about the ways in which exposure to certain news outlets affects voters and the democractic processes in elections.聽
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Published on: 8 Aug 2019
The stronger Canadians鈥� partisan views are, the more likely they are to choose the wrong answer on a series of factual policy questions, a survey has found.
Respondents were asked a series of neutral, factual questions, such as whether the unemployment rate was higher in 2015 or 2018, or whether the deficit had risen.
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Published on: 8 Aug 2019
Imagine building a new underground mine 鈥� or expanding an existing one 鈥� without using explosives.
That鈥檚 the goal of a new project unveiled in Sudbury on Wednesday. And while the announcement was made in here, the money 鈥� $1.5 million 鈥� will go to 9I制作厂免费 of Montreal to test cleaner methods of mining.聽
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Published on: 8 Aug 2019
I wanted to know how protection affects streams because most protected areas are not created specifically with streams in mind, says聽Dalal Hanna, a freshwater ecologist, science communicator, National Geographic Explorer, and PhD Candidate at 9I制作厂免费.聽
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Published on: 8 Aug 2019
Karin Galldin's family started as many do, with a simple desire to raise children. While the route she chose to get there was still unpaved, the path had been cleared. By the time she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, everything was in place for her to get legal recognition as one of four parents along with her partner, as well as the birth father and his partner.聽There is more acceptance today around diverse relationships involving multiple parents and alternative family structures. The legal definition of family continues to evolve, in some provinces more so than in others.
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Published on: 7 Aug 2019
Wearing sunscreen is probably one of the best cancer deterrents there is. We often forget how聽common聽skin cancer is. One in five adults will be diagnosed with some form of skin cancer in their lives, making it more common than all other cancer diagnoses combined. Fortunately, if caught early, it can be easily treated. It is also largely preventable, says Christopher Labos,聽a Montreal doctor and an associate with the 9I制作厂免费 Office for Science and Society.
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Published on: 7 Aug 2019
(Chiara Concini)聽is one of 130 high school and post-secondary students from around the globe aboard the Ocean Endeavour, taking a two-week plunge into arctic culture and geography in a program called聽Students On Ice.
Alongside Inuit elders, scientists, archaeologists, artists and other experts, the students are sailing to communities in Greenland, then through the Northwest Passage in Nunavut, to hike, observe wildlife and learn about the changing northern climate and diverse cultural traditions of people who live there.
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Published on: 6 Aug 2019
Not one but two requests to approve class actions against the American bank in Quebec were filed at the Superior Court of Quebec on Tuesday, only 24 hours after Capital One announced there had been a personal-data breach. The requests have to be approved by a judge before a class action can go any further. This latest massive security breach, which was confirmed on July 19, was announced Monday by Capital One. It affects 106 million members, six million of them Canadian.
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Published on: 1 Aug 2019
Miriam Kirmayer聽is a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at 9I制作厂免费 and a therapist聽who specializes in young adult and adult friendships. She says" one common thread I hear in my work as a聽therapist who聽focuses on friendship聽is just how disconnected so many of us feel from our friends and communities. Feeling lonely or dissatisfied with our聽social network聽has less to do with the number of connections we have and everything to do with the quality of the relationships we hold on to."聽
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Published on: 31 Jul 2019
Last week, the pop diva posted a YouTube video, 鈥�22 Days Nutrition,鈥� promoting a diet plan created by her trainer and 鈥渆xercise physiologist鈥澛燤arco Borges. (The singer doubled up and followed the diet for 44 days in preparation for her 2018 Coachella performance.)
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Published on: 30 Jul 2019
People often say that babies are like little sponges - with their ability to soak up language quickly and easily.
Yet much of the early research on language acquisition has focused on young infants learning only one language. This research was guided by an implicit assumption that聽learning one language is the usual and optimal way to learn to talk.聽
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Published on: 30 Jul 2019
Tim Hortons is testing the fake omelette聽鈥斅爉ade with mung bean protein isolate聽鈥斅爄n two regions in southern Ontario. If it's a hit, the product聽will join the Beyond Meat plant-based burger and breakfast sausage already on the menu聽at Tim Hortons and A&Ws across Canada.
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Published on: 29 Jul 2019
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