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CRA, short for International Conference on Robotics and Automation, is organized by the IEEE, the world鈥檚 largest engineering association. Specifically, the聽IEEE Robotics & Automation Society. ICRA 2019 will take place from May 20-24 at the Palais des congr猫s de Montr茅al, also known as the Montreal Convention Center, marking the first time that the conference 鈥� now in its 35th year 鈥� is being held in Canada.
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Caesarean deliveries, or C-sections, can either be planned or the result of complications during labour. Either way, experts say women should know what this type of birth entails. In April 2018, the Canadian Institute for Health Information found that more than聽103,000 C-sections were performed in Canada between 2016 and 2017, resulting in a rate of 28.2 per cent of all births in Canada. Experts say today, that rate is about 30 to 33 per cent.
Volkswagen, the company that alternates with Toyota for the title of聽world's biggest carmaker, shook up the global industry last week when it announced it would begin accepting orders for its new electric car, the ID.3. But just as skeptics have repeatedly underestimated the ability of the car business to adapt to climate change, there is early evidence of a potentially bigger transformation underway: the move to abandon car ownership altogether.
Two Canadian non-profits, OSMO and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), are partnering to launch the AI For Good Summer Lab program, an initiative that provides undergraduate women in STEM fields with exposure to training and networking opportunities in artificial intelligence.
Obesity is a global public health issue, yet it鈥檚 regarded by many as a personal failing. Negative attitudes abound. Chief among them: The mistaken belief that those with it are to blame for their weight; the dogged perception that if they only set their minds to it, they could shed it.
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All Canadian youth should have free access to contraceptives, according to a聽new position statement聽by the Canadian Paediatric Society.
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TB is an airborne infection caused by聽Mycobacterium tuberculosis. When streptomycin was first discovered in the 1940s, there was tremendous hope that TB could be defeated. But TB bacteria quickly became resistant to streptomycin when it was given alone.聽We quickly learnt that TB requires a combination of drugs to fend off drug-resistance.
A new study warns that many of the benefits rivers provide, from water to food to flood control, are increasingly at risk thanks to dams and diversions.
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Joelle Barron,聽Lindsay Nixon and聽Casey Plett聽have been nominated for the Writers' Trust of Canada's $5,000 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ emerging writers.聽Nixon聽is a Cree-M茅tis-Saulteaux curator, editor and writer. Their聽memoir,聽n卯tis芒nak, was published in 2018. Their writing has appeared in聽The Walrus,聽Malahat Review,聽Room, and聽Teen Vogue. Nixon is currently a聽PhD student in art history at 9I制作厂免费.
Artful Moments, a program run by the Art Gallery of Hamilton (AGH)聽aimed at people with dementia and their caregivers is part of a growing trend toward offering art therapy inside museums, as the institutions try reaching out to all sections of the community.
