Keep the animal agriculture industry out of the new food guide
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Alum recipient of Canada鈥檚 Volunteer Awards鈥� Emerging Leader Award (Quebec Region)
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Professor Jeff Xia named CRC Chair (Tier 2)
Congratulations to Professor Jianguo (Jeff) Xia, Department of Animal Science and Institute of Parasitology, who has been named a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2)听 in Bioinformatics and Big Data Analytics.
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Professors inducted into Royal Society of Canada
Congratulations to Jan Adamowski (Bioresource Engineering) and Elena Bennett (Natural Resource Sciences) on their induction into the Royal Society of Canada. The announcement was made in September, and the induction ceremony was held in late November.
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Plant trees to control climate change
Scientists at an international conference said on [November 30] that climate change was a global phenomenon that could only be controlled by planting more and more trees. This was stated in the concluding session of the first international conference on Conventional and Modern Approaches in Plant Sciences (CMAPS 17), organised by the Punjab University Department of Botany at Faisal Auditorium.
Mercury decline in seabirds due to diet, not emission controls
For 47 years, biologists have plucked eggs from seabird nests along the British Columbia coast. Many of the eggs were collected from remote rocky islands surrounded by some of the world鈥檚 roughest seas.
In all, they collected 537 eggs from six species, including ancient murrelets, rhinoceros auklets and double-crested cormorants. Now these eggs are revealing new information about the way mercury finds its way into the ecosystem.
Master blender behind world famous Northern Harvest rye
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Health experts raise concerns over cannabis drinks and lack of details from Ottawa
Unlike alcohol, which kills bacteria and toxins, Lawrence Goodridge argues, integrating cannabis in the place of alcohol may require a very different production process. 鈥淏ecause cannabis is a plant, there are certain concerns -- like the possibility of pesticides used in production, or the type of fertilizer used, or the potential presence of heavy metals that could be toxic to humans,鈥� the 9I制作厂免费 food safety expert explained to BNN in a telephone interview.
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The taste of the wines of California will be affected by the fire
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Le go没t des vins de Californie sera affect茅 par les incendies
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Why are the leaves on Montreal's trees so green in October?
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Mac Community comes together to bake pies
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Brain food: Kindergarteners get head start with nutrition education at EMSB
Heartening to see the good work Macdonald grads Sylvie Beaudry (FdSci'88), Giuliana Di Quinzio (Nutr'00) and Pamela Yiptong听(Nutr'09) are undertaking at EMSB to help children develop healthy eating habits.
...During her 29 years in the public school system, dietitian Sylvie Beaudry [(FdSci'88)] has played a role in encouraging thousands of students to develop healthy eating habits.