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Months of speculation ended when the听McCord Museum听announced Tuesday that its new home will be built on the site of its current home on Sherbrooke and Victoria Sts. in the heart of Montreal鈥檚 Golden Square Mile. As McCord president and chief executive officer Suzanne Sauvage enthused about the museum鈥檚 ideal location, halfway between the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Mus茅e d鈥檃rt contemporain, close to downtown universities, near public transit, the听soon-to-be-re-imagined 9I制作厂免费 College artery听and the听9I制作厂免费 station听of the city鈥檚 future light-rail system, she was philosophical.

Classified as: society and culture
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Published on: 1 May 2019

The Ville de Montr茅al and 9I制作厂免费 today received Blue Community certification on the occasion of World Water Day. To obtain this certification, they have undertaken to recognize water and sanitation as human rights, to promote publicly managed water services and to ban or phase out the sale of bottled water in their buildings and at their events. Hence Montreal has joined some forty Blue Communities worldwide, including major cities like Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Victoria. For its part, 9I制作厂免费 has become the fourth university in the world to obtain this certification.

Classified as: eau secours, Sustainability, Montreal, society and culture
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Published on: 22 Mar 2019

You are in a strange neighbourhood, your cell phone鈥檚 dead, and you desperately need to find the closest garage. A couple of people on the street chime in, each sending you in opposite directions. One person sounds like a local and speaks in a nonchalant manner, while the other uses a loud, confident voice but speaks with a strong accent. Who are you going to trust?

Classified as: Research, school of communication sciences and disorders, faculty of medicine, society and culture
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Published on: 19 Sep 2018

Your child is in elementary school and is begging you to buy them a cell phone, an iPod and iPad.听 Anything, as long as they can communicate with their friends, either by texting or through social media.听 As a parent, you鈥檙e worried about cyberbullying.听 Indeed, up to 30% of children and adolescents admit to cyberbullying others, while 25% of students report being victimized on electronic platforms.听 You rationalize that your child has lots of friends and that they will stand up for them in a bullying situation.听 Do they?听 What is the role of the bystander/friend during a bullying incident?

Classified as: Bystander, cyberbullying, bullying, Victoria Talwar, Karisa Leduc, society and culture
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Published on: 25 Jul 2018
A major new research partnership has been launched to explore ways of reducing health inequalities in cities around the world.
Classified as: society and culture, Jill Baumgartner, brian e. robinson, Christopher Barrington-Leigh, cities, environment, health, urban health, air pollution, wellcome trust, IHSP, 9I制作厂免费 School of the Environment
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Published on: 6 Feb 2018

We all know people who, seemingly incapable of living without the bright screen of their phone for more than a few minutes, are constantly texting and checking out what friends are up to on social media.

These are examples of what many consider to be the antisocial behaviour brought on by smartphone addiction, a phenomenon that has garnered media attention in the past few months and led听 investors and consumers to demand that tech giants address this problem.

But what if we were looking at things the wrong way? Could smartphone addiction be hyper-social, not anti-social?

Classified as: Smartphone, addiction, Samuel Veissi猫re, social interaction, society and culture
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Published on: 6 Feb 2018
A from 9I制作厂免费 Urban Planning professor David Wachsmuth听and his team听provides an analysis of Airbnb activity in New York City and the surrounding region in the last three years (September 2014 - August 2017). Relying on new methodologies to analyze big data, here are听some of the findings:
Classified as: Airbnb, David Wachsmuth, urban planning, new york city, society and culture
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Published on: 30 Jan 2018

How individual police forces treat those that they suspect of being illegal immigrants varies greatly from one city to the next in the U.S. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, the police department has a policy that states clearly, 鈥淥fficers shall not stop, question, detain or arrest any person on the ground that they may be undocumented and deportable foreign nationals.鈥 But this is unusual. Local police departments across the U.S. have become increasingly involved in enforcing federal immigration laws since the mid-1990s.

Classified as: Police, US, attitudes towards immigrants, hispanic, american cities, society and culture
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Published on: 14 Dec 2017

Do songbirds and humans have common biological hardwiring that shapes how they produce and perceive sounds?

Scientists who study birdsong have been intrigued for some time by the possibility that human speech and music may be rooted in biological processes shared across a variety of animals. Now, research by 9I制作厂免费 biologists provides new evidence to support this idea.

Classified as: songbirds, birdsong, speech, sounds, finches, Universal, grammar, learning, jon sakata, Logan James, Biology, neurobiological, society and culture
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Published on: 22 Nov 2017

By Meaghan Thurston

Professor Claudia Mitchell was in an Ethiopian airport on her way to Russia when she received an email from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation asking her to give them a call. With no phone in sight, Mitchell waited anxiously until landing some hours later to learn that she had garnered a prestigious Fellowship. 鈥淭hey said, 鈥榶ou clearly walk the talk because you are traveling from one girl-led project to another鈥欌.

Classified as: claudia mitchell, Trudeau fellowship, society and culture
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Published on: 19 Sep 2017
The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) announced today that Professor Michel Tremblay (Department of Biochemistry and the Director of the 9I制作厂免费 Cancer Institute) has been awarded the McLaughlin Medal for important research of sustained excellence in medical science. Recognized for his leading-edge work on the role and function of particular enzymes in the development of cancer, Professor Tremblay is among the 12 Canadian researchers honoured with an RSC medal or award this year. Also among the RSC 2017 award winners is Dr.
Classified as: michel tremblay, royal society of canada, McLaughlin Medal, 9I制作厂免费 Cancer Institute, Department of Biochemistry, Research and Innovation, society and culture
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Published on: 19 Sep 2017

Human-computer interactions, such as playing video games, can have a negative impact on the brain, says a new Canadian study published in Molecular Psychiatry. For over 10 years, scientists have told us that action video game players exhibit better visual attention, motor control abilities and short-term memory. But, could these benefits come at a cost?

Classified as: video games, violence, Veronique Bohbot, Douglas Mental Health Institute, External, faculty, staff, Student, society and culture
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Published on: 8 Aug 2017

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