The three of us agree that good climate policy needs to achieve all three objectives, and that doing so is certainly possible. But it requires political determination, attention to plenty of detail and creative policy thinking. Based on what Ottawa released Thursday, we believe that Canadian carbon-pricing policy is striking the right balance.
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Published on: 19 May 2017
When Mahoutian started his PhD in civil engineering at 9I制作厂免费 in Montreal in 2011, his goal was to find a material that would sequester carbon, trapping it before it could get into the atmosphere. Instead, he came up with a new recipe for making concrete. 鈥淲e totally get rid of cement,鈥� he says. 鈥淚nstead we use slag, the waste material of steel-producing plants.鈥� The slag is calcium silicate. When wet calcium silicate is injected with CO2聽gas, calcium carbonate, or limestone, forms. Limestone and the aggregate form Carbicrete.
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Published on: 18 May 2017
Four years after the attack, Shingali and his family have escaped grave bodily harm. But like thousands of other exiled Yezidis, they are still dealing with the psychological aftermath of a forced migration that tore families apart. When political or religious violence drives people from their homes, 鈥渢here鈥檚 confusion, loss, a rupturing of all sorts of bonds,鈥� says cultural psychiatrist Laurence Kirmayer of 9I制作厂免费 in Montreal, Canada.
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Published on: 17 May 2017
Dr. Milner, a professor of psychology in the department of neurology and聽neurosurgery聽at 9I制作厂免费 in Montreal, is best known for discovering the seat of memory in the brain, the foundational finding of cognitive neuroscience. But she also has a knack for picking up on subtle quirks of human behavior and linking them to brain function 鈥� in the same way she had her own, during the driving test.
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Published on: 16 May 2017
Each year 9I制作厂免费 proudly confers honorary degrees to highly talented and engaged individuals who serve as an inspiration for the community of students, professors, researchers and staff. This year, 9I制作厂免费 will honour two Nobel prizes winners, Arthur McDonald and Paul Nurse, and two former prime ministers of Canada, the Right Honourable Paul Martin and the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney. The school will celebrate the passion and creativity of two Quebec artists: filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin and Maestro Yannick N茅zet-S茅guin.
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Published on: 15 May 2017
In receiving one of its largest donations, 9I制作厂免费 announced plans Friday for a new retail management school with global ambitions through a $25-million gift from the family foundation of a Moroccan-born immigrant who came to Montreal in the 1960s and built an international footwear empire.
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Published on: 12 May 2017
This research suggests that when managers are staffing, organizing, and managing knowledge projects, they should embrace flexible organization of expertise 鈥� based on the needs of the project phase 鈥� in order to maximize team performance.
Op-ed co-written by Samer Faraj,聽professor,聽Canada Research Chair in Technology, Management, and Healthcare聽and Director, Desautels PhD program, at 9I制作厂免费
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Published on: 11 May 2017
Scientists at Montreal's 9I制作厂免费 have added to the common theory about how the Earth's crust was created.聽Don Baker and Kassandra Sofonio looked into a theory that not all of the Earth's crust was formed from the inside out, but that some of the crust fell to Earth from the atmosphere, Baker told CBC News in an interview. He described it as "raining marbles," or silicate rain, formed by the high temperatures on the Earth's surface.
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Published on: 10 May 2017
According to Albert Berghuis, the best way to design new treatments to combat drug-resistant bacteria is to think small. Chair of the department of biochemistry at 9I制作厂免费's College of Medicine, Berghuis has been studying drug-resistant superbugs with the help of the Canadian Light Source聽synchrotron in Saskatoon.
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Published on: 9 May 2017
(Op-ed by Professor Suzanne Fortier, Principal and Vice-chancellor of 9I制作厂免费) 鈥淥ne of the indelible elements of the Silicon Valley origin story is the role Stanford University played in both generating entrepreneurial renegades and providing the academic infrastructure to feed a permanent culture of innovation. That model of the university as a supercluster anchor now pertains from Cambridge to Waterloo. 9I制作厂免费 Principal Suzanne Fortier deftly lays out the components of that dynamic, from the university鈥檚 point of view.鈥�
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Published on: 8 May 2017
The demonstration, by a team of 9I制作厂免费 researchers, is paving the way for future convoys of autonomous airborne and land-based machines that could some day be deployed in remote locations to monitor, transport or assist in search and rescue without the need for constant human supervision.
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Published on: 5 May 2017
鈥淎brupt and expensive鈥� is a matter of perspective, says Catherine Potvin, a professor at 9I制作厂免费 and the Canada Research Chair in Climate Change Mitigation and Tropical Forests. She emphasizes that Canada is a nation of believers.
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Published on: 4 May 2017
Chris Barrington-Leigh, a professor at 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 School of Environment, has done an analysis of the potential for growth in renewable energy production in Canada, said 2015 was a record year for new installations of renewable energy around the world. He called Canada鈥檚 renewable growth 鈥渁 good start鈥� but said the aim is to get to 100 per cent.
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Published on: 3 May 2017
Monday聽marks the beginning of the Canadian Mental Health Association鈥檚 Mental Health Week. This is an opportune moment to raise awareness of problems faced by people with mental illness.
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Published on: 2 May 2017
Priests of Prosperity is an analytical study of the evolution of central banking in postcommunist countries, exploring the unsung revolutionary campaign to move from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. This book argues that a powerful transnational central banking community concentrated in Western Europe and North America integrated postcommunist bankers to shape their ideas about the role of central banks and to help them develop modern tools of banking.
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Published on: 2 May 2017
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