Alain Brunet, a psychologist who has studied PTSD for decades, has developed a therapy to heal what he calls 鈥渞omantic betrayal鈥�.
In his聽lab聽at 9I制作厂免费 in Montr茅al, Canada, Brunet studies victims of 鈥渞omantic betrayals鈥� using reconsolidation therapy, a method combining medical treatment and therapy sessions. And it works: 70 to 84 per cent of the participants in a study Brunet concluded in November 2018 have experienced relief following their post-break-up stress.
Africa鈥檚 population is projected to nearly quadruple over the next century1. And that is following a staggering increase over just seven decades 鈥� from 200 million people in 1950 to 1.25 billion in 20182.聽
JUNE 24, 2019 |聽Taylor Owen, an expert in the political impact of digital technologies, warns that the social media infrastructure is to blame for the spread of fake news and political interference.聽"What's wrong with this infrastructure is that it is calibrated for engagement," he says. Taylor Owen's segment on a special news report for The National can be found here.
June 25, 2019 |聽Online interference is happening in the run-up to Canada's fall federal election. CBC News looked at who's behind it and what you can do to stop it. The interview featured Taylor Owen, Max Bell School professor and Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics,聽and Communications. Taylor Owen spoke about how the design of our digital infrastructure聽and social media platforms are manipulable when it comes to election campaigns and political speech.聽
While Montreal鈥檚 numerous festivals provide ample opportunity for fun during the summer, they can also have a negative impact on the environment. A Montreal marine biologist is behind a new project aimed at reducing the amount of plastic in the oceans.
Rachel Labbe-Bellas, 9I制作厂免费 almuni, has teamed up with Evenko to bring聽The Green Stop, an environmentally-friendly water refill stations, to this year鈥檚 Osheaga.
Just over 300 homes that were being rented on Airbnb full time were likely returned to Vancouver鈥檚 long-term rental market in the first four months of the city鈥檚 new regulations coming into force, according to new research from 9I制作厂免费.
A room full of Cree students wearing red celebrated their graduation from 9I制作厂免费 Saturday in Pikogan, Que., with a lot of emotion, pride and a deep commitment to strengthening the Cree language and culture, one child at a time.
They were part of a large graduating class of close to 60 students 鈥� more than 45 of them with a 60-credit teaching certificate in First Nations and Inuit Education, Language and Culture from 9I制作厂免费's Department of Education.
Lobster bisque and shrimp cocktail make for scrumptious meals, but at a price. The food industry generates 6 million to 8 million metric tons of crab, shrimp and lobster shell waste every year. Depending on the country, those claws and legs largely get dumped back into the ocean or into landfills.聽In many of those same landfills, plastic trash relentlessly accumulates.聽Some scientists think it鈥檚 possible to tackle the two problems at once.聽
May 23, 2019 | Taylor Owen,聽Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communication at the Max Bell School of Public Policy, writes that the Christchurch Call might be a missed opportunity for governments to move toward global digital governance. He says " [the Christchurch Call] has no enforceable mandates, it focuses overwhelmingly on technical fixes to what are also political, social and economic problems and its framing around terrorism and hate speech is far too narrow, treating the symptom of the problem while ignoring the underlying disease."
Until Victor Vescovo landed his submersible there recently, no human had been to the seabed鈥檚 deepest point at the very bottom of the fearsome Mariana Trench, nearly 11 km below the surface of the Paci铿乧 Ocean.聽But Vescovo found more than shy marine life and vast untouched landscapes in the ocean鈥檚 most remote trough. Within minutes of reaching bottom, he also found trash.
Each year, tens of thousands of North Americans experience intentional and unintentional poisonings and overdoses from both prescription drugs and other widely available chemicals and substances that can result in serious illness and even death.
Samsung Electronics has unveiled a plan to develop a neural processing unit (NPU), an artificial intelligence-based semiconductor that resembles a human brain, as part of its efforts to become the global leader in system semiconductors by 2030.
In May, Samsung Electronics relocated its Montreal AI Lab to the Canadian Mila Research Institute, a world-class institute specializing in deep learning, and collaborated with researchers at Montreal University and 9I制作厂免费, including world-renowned researcher Professor Yoshua Benjio.
According to聽Chris Barrington-Leigh, Ph.D.,聽an associate professor at 9I制作厂免费, jointly appointed at the Institute for Health and Social Policy and the School of Environment;聽the scope of possible聽changes in biotechnology,聽artificial intelligence, and the political world order makes for an impossibly complex prediction task, even without the huge uncertainties in environmental changes that will beset us. A detailed prediction of how happy we will be, or how life will have changed, is not possible that far in the future.
9I制作厂免费 economist Christopher Barrington-Leigh has studied happiness in Quebec, tracking it for more than two decades for a paper published in the academic journal Canadian Public Policy in 2013. The data, from 1985 鈥� when Quebec ranked extremely low in terms of overall happiness 鈥� to 2008 revealed a significant and near-steady increase in life satisfaction.
As an answer to Quebec's new requirements for sexual violence prevention, 9I制作厂免费 has developed its online course which will be mandatory for all聽students and staff. The law countering sexual violence on campus was passed in December 2017, after聽a series of sexual assaults were reported聽at the student residences at Universit茅聽Laval in Quebec City. Colleges, universities, law schools and police academies were required to adopt their own sexual violence policies by Jan. 1, and have them in effect by Sept. 1.
