March聽18, 2019 |聽Prior聽to聽Canada鈥檚 next election,聽Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers his fourth and final budget. After surveying over聽a dozen economists to take stock of the government鈥檚 record on economic policy, Bloomberg has highlighted some key aspects in the policy.聽The question is 鈥渢o what extent is Canada a place where you can come in and do reasonably risky big natural resource related projects,鈥� said Chris Ragan, director of 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 Max Bell School of Public Policy. 鈥淭he answer is increasingly 鈥榙on鈥檛 come here.鈥欌��
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Published on: 5 Apr 2019
9I制作厂免费 student teacher Chama Laassassy, who supervised B茅langer and Dionne's project, planted the seed about excessive waste at McDonald's.
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Published on: 5 Apr 2019
March聽19, 2019 | Chris Ragan, Director of the Max Bell School, shares his thoughts with聽Neil Macdonald, a columnist at CBC Opinion, regarding government debt and the upcoming "fiscal squeeze" as the Canadian population ages. "The Trudeau government's spending has been scattershot and political, rather than strategic; reversing Stepen Harper's decision to raise the retirement age was foolish" says Chris Ragan.
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Published on: 4 Apr 2019
Prof. Robert Leckey, the dean of 9I制作厂免费's faculty of law, notes the draft legislation, Bill 21, extends聽beyond聽the recommendations laid out by聽the 2010 Bouchard-Taylor report, which advised applying the ban to public workers who hold "coercive" state power.
"If the concern was that people would be afraid of bias when being disciplined by a state officer, it's way overbroad," said Leckey.
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Published on: 4 Apr 2019
April聽1, 2019 | Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy, Christopher Ragan, sat down with Don Martin on Power Play聽to speak about the Federal Carbon Tax.
"We respond to price changes, but we don't necessarily respond overnight," said Chris Ragan about the carbon tax. "This is a policy and a problem that we need solve over several decades, and this is just the beginning."
Interview starts around 08:40 minute mark.聽
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Published on: 4 Apr 2019
The聽Quebec government鈥檚 new secularism bill聽is 鈥渃lear discrimination,鈥� an 鈥渦nreasonable restriction,鈥� and an unneeded answer to a problem that doesn鈥檛 exist.
That鈥檚 what Charles Taylor, one of the co-authors of Quebec鈥檚 2008 report on reasonable accommodation, said Tuesday during a panel discussion organized by the 9I制作厂免费 Muslim Law Students鈥� Association.
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Published on: 3 Apr 2019
Another example is the聽鈥渄odgy and problematic鈥� use of AI for facial recognition in job interviews, said Gabriella Coleman, a 9I制作厂免费 professor who holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy.聽The technology claims to assess candidates鈥� facial expressions to detect if they鈥檙e being honest聽and to see if they have the right personality for the job.
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Published on: 2 Apr 2019
Robert Leckey, dean of 9I制作厂免费's law school, said Legault's compromise is quite limited. Current teachers, according to the bill, can keep their symbols "as long as they exercise the same function within the same school board."
Leckey said that is "unpleasantly narrow. You can't be promoted or change school boards and wear a religious symbol." Additionally, he said, the sweep of people captured by the bill goes much further than originally anticipated.
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Published on: 29 Mar 2019
Robert Sorge was studying pain in mice in 2009, but he was the one who ended up with a headache.聽At 9I制作厂免费 in Montreal, Canada, Sorge was investigating how animals develop an extreme sensitivity to touch. To test for this response, Sorge poked the paws of mice using fine hairs, ones that wouldn鈥檛 ordinarily bother them. The males behaved as the scientific literature said they would: they yanked their paws back from even the finest of threads.
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Published on: 28 Mar 2019
Backed by the Canadian government, Dr. Hinton, a computer science professor at the University of Toronto, organized a new research community with several academics who also tackled the concept. They included Yann LeCun, a professor at New York University, and Yoshua Bengio at the University of Montreal.
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Published on: 27 Mar 2019
9I制作厂免费 Prof. Eric Latimer, the lead聽researcher on this聽project, said the two surveys can't be directly compared given their different approaches.
But he said a聽number of聽new聽housing-first programs聽have helped get more people off the street, even as rising rents have made it increasingly difficult for low-income people to stay in their homes.
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Published on: 26 Mar 2019
Author: Madhukar Pai, Director of Global Health & Professor, 9I制作厂免费
鈥淲here youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies,鈥� wrote John Keats, in his acclaimed 鈥淥de to a Nightingale.鈥� His words probably summarized his struggle against tuberculosis (TB), an ancient disease that killed millions in his time. Sadly, Keats lost his fight against TB in 1821, and died at the age of 25.
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Published on: 25 Mar 2019
Alain Brunet of 9I制作厂免费 in Montreal has done extensive research on propranolol and says it has now been proven in a randomized clinical trial he published last year that propranolol is more effective than a placebo.
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Published on: 22 Mar 2019
Whenever a tragedy of such horrific proportions occurs as the recent New Zealand killings, the media flock to the site and begin massive coverage. [...]聽Robert Whitley (PhD)聽is a professor of psychiatry at 9I制作厂免费 and research scientist at the聽Douglas Hospital mental health Research Centre聽both in Montreal.
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Published on: 21 Mar 2019
This represents the first direct human evidence that pain seems to be as sex-dependent in its underlying biology in humans as we have been suggesting for a while now, based on experiments in mice," says Jeffrey Mogil, professor of pain studies at 9I制作厂免费 in Montreal and a leading researcher on sex differences in pain, who was not involved in the聽Brain聽study.
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Published on: 20 Mar 2019
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