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Losing Ground on Carbon Pricing | TVO

Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy Chris Ragan sat down with TVO'S聽The Agenda with Steve Palkin聽to discuss carbon pricing.

"In 2014 the Ecofiscal Commission was created to advocate for putting a price on carbon. It comprised people from across the political spectrum, including former Reform Party founder and leader, Preston Manning. A consensus seemed to be emerging. But, these days it has become a heated debate across Canada. The Agenda welcomes economist Chris Ragan, chair of the commission, to discuss the battle over the carbon tax."

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Published on: 16 Jan 2019

CTV NEWS | National dementia strategy should include input from patients, caregivers: report

"The report is not a plan," said Dr. Howard Bergman of 9I制作厂免费, who chaired the six-member panel. "It will inform those preparing the plan by looking at the evidence and then assessing the best practices."

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Published on: 16 Jan 2019

CBC NEWS | Canada's new justice minister is a Montrealer: Meet David Lametti

Colleagues of Canada's new Justice Minister David Lametti say that, before his career in politics, he was known for his generosity and mentorship as a law professor at 9I制作厂免费聽University.聽At 9I制作厂免费, Lametti聽focused his academic work on intellectual property, even pioneering it as a field of research in law at the university, according to Richard Gold, the associate dean of the 9I制作厂免费 Faculty of Law graduate studies program.

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Published on: 15 Jan 2019

THE SWADDLE | Men and Women Remember Physical Pain Very Differently

After a physically painful experience, men鈥檚 memories can exaggerate the pain, which makes them more stressed about and sensitive to pain in the future, researchers at 9I制作厂免费 and the University of Toronto,聽Mississauga, have found. Women, on the other hand, handled pain like champs.聽


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Published on: 14 Jan 2019

CBC News | Signal from deep space is probably not aliens, just 'exotic physics': prof

The detection of a signal coming from deep space is definitely something to be excited about 鈥� but it's probably not aliens, warns one of the professors who helped build Canada's CHIME telescope.

"It is really highly unlikely that it's a beacon from other civilisations,"聽said聽Matt聽Dobbs, professor聽of physics at聽9I制作厂免费聽University.

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Published on: 14 Jan 2019

PLOS Biology | Ethical Oversights in Ethical Oversight of Animal Research

Article by聽Jonathan Kimmelman,聽Director of the Biomedical Ethics Unity in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at 9I制作厂免费, and is a member of the聽PLOS Biology聽Editorial Board.

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Published on: 14 Jan 2019

The 鈥淎B-QC鈥檚鈥� of equalization payments | Breakfast Television Montreal

Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy, Chris Ragan, sat down with Breakfast Television Montreal to speak about equalization payments.聽

"Equalization payments are inflaming Quebec-Alberta tensions. Dr. Christopher Ragan explains what they are and how they add fuel to the fire."

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Published on: 11 Jan 2019

The Politics of Carbon Pricing | Breakfast Television Montreal

Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy, Chris Ragan, sat down with Breakfast Television Montreal to discuss carbon pricing.

"The federal carbon tax plan is causing friction across parties and provinces, and will be a key issue this election year," Professor Ragan explains.

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Published on: 8 Jan 2019

Big Tech鈥檚 net loss: How governments can turn anger into action | THE GLOBE AND MAIL

Newly appointed Max Bell School of Public Policy professor Taylor Owen wrote a piece for the Globe and Mail on how governments should regulate Big Tech companies.聽

"There is currently a disconnect between the global scale, operation and social impact of technology companies and the national jurisdiction of most countries' tech laws and regulations. As former BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie has聽argued, the digital economy may need its Bretton Woods moment."

Classified as: max bell school of public policy, max bell school, public policy, School of Public Policy, Taylor Owen on Digital Governance
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Published on: 7 Jan 2019

CTV NEWS | App helps doctors measure, treat patients' wounds

Dr. Sheila Wang, a dermatologist at the 9I制作厂免费 Health Centre, came up with the idea for the app when she was in medical school and noticed that the standard practice was to measure wounds with rulers or other handheld instruments.

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Published on: 19 Dec 2018

C2C JOURNAL | How to Take Back the Charter

Conversations among Canadian conservatives often drift into grumbling about the courts. Their complaint is with the judiciary鈥檚 decades-long campaign to remake the country in its progressive image, a process that began soon after adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982. University of Calgary political scientists Ted Morton and Rainer Knopff鈥檚 book decrying this process, The Charter Revolution and the Court Party, is as relevant today as it was upon its publication nearly two decades ago.

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Published on: 18 Dec 2018

NBC NEWS | Can't put down the phone? How smartphones are changing our brains 鈥� and lives

Veissiere and Carr are among researchers and public figures calling attention not just to the more widely discussed impacts of our phones 鈥� such as dinner disruptions and聽distracted drivers聽鈥� but also to their subtler effects, which some fear could result in profound changes to our brains and to society.

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Published on: 17 Dec 2018

Not all news consumers worry about journalistic values | POLICY OPTIONS

The Max Bell School of Public Policy was mentioned in a Policy Options piece that discusses research conducted by newly appointed Max Bell Professor Taylor Owen and 9I制作厂免费 Institute for the Study of Canada Assistant Professor Andrew Potter on the habits of news consumers.聽

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Published on: 14 Dec 2018

THE TYEE | Want to Fix Foster Care? Ask Kids Who Have Been Through the System

Those recommendations were all included in聽Relationships Matter for Youth 鈥淎ging Out鈥� of Care, a report from Melanie Doucet, a 9I制作厂免费 social work PhD student, and eight youth from care in B.C.

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Published on: 14 Dec 2018

THE CONVERSATION | Is the next Standing Rock looming in northern B.C.?

Ground zero in the global battle against climate chaos this week is in Wet'suwet'en territory, northern British Columbia. As pipeline companies try to push their way onto unceded Indigenous territories, the conflict could become the next Standing Rock-style showdown over Indigenous rights and fossil fuel infrastructure.

By聽Leah Temper, Research Associate at 9I制作厂免费

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Published on: 13 Dec 2018

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