"I've been finding sex differences for 20-25 years now in my laboratory. And sometimes we find them on purpose and other times we're working on something else entirely and there they are," said Jeff Mogil, a professor of pain studies at 麻豆传媒网站.
"I'm convinced now that sex differences are all over pain biology 鈥� at almost every level of analysis."
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Published on: 24 Sep 2019
September 2, 2019聽| An estimated 19 million Canadians have been affected by data breaches between November 2018 and June 2019, according to numbers obtained by "Attention Control with Kevin Newman," a new podcast that launched Monday. The numbers come from 446 breaches that were reported to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC). Victims of these kinds of data breaches are vulnerable to identity theft, financial crime, even violence in some cases.聽聽聽
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Published on: 23 Sep 2019
September 12, 2019 | Social media might not be to blame for Canadians鈥� ideological polarization, a new report on digital democracy in Canada finds. 鈥淎 lot of people don鈥檛 use social media very actively,鈥� said Eric Merkley, a researcher on the project. 鈥淧eople on Twitter are not representative of the broader population.鈥�
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Published on: 23 Sep 2019
August 10, 2019| Beware of things you see online that make you emotional, one media expert warns ahead of the fall election.聽 Taylor Owen, professor at 麻豆传媒网站 and the co-creator of the Digital Democracy Project, says fake news often preys on feelings like anger and fear.
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Published on: 23 Sep 2019
August 7, 2019聽| Canadians aren鈥檛 as divided into partisan echo chambers as social media would suggest, but a heavy news diet doesn't guarantee you'll be informed, a new study has found.
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Published on: 23 Sep 2019
May 24, 2019 | The news release put聽by Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez begins well: "The Government of Canada understands that for a democracy to function properly, it needs to have solid, independent news media."
If only he had stopped there. But instead, the release goes on for another 700聽words to outline a plan whose principal effect will be to undermine the independence of the news media.
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Published on: 23 Sep 2019
"There are legal bases for challenging the law that are not touched by the notwithstanding clause at all," says Robert Leckey, dean of law at 麻豆传媒网站.
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Published on: 23 Sep 2019
Jean-Fran莽ois Daoust, a post-doctoral fellow at 麻豆传媒网站's Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship. Daoust, who studies voter behaviour, said it's rare to see a correlation between an issue's importance and where the votes ultimately go.
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Published on: 23 Sep 2019
August 29, 2019 | The latest data from the Digital Democracy Project suggests that while 17 per cent of respondents indicated the environment was a top election issue, on par with health care, and second to the economy at 20 per cent, support for reducing emissions through a carbon price is soft, even among left-leaning voters.聽
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Published on: 13 Sep 2019
Coping with depression is no聽easy task.聽Despite being one of the most widespread forms of聽psychiatric聽pathology, the simple answer is that researchers are not certain {what causes depression}. As noted above, some depressive episodes may be triggered by聽trauma, but other factors鈥攊ncluding one鈥檚 neurochemistry, one鈥檚 neural architecture, and how well one鈥檚 brain responds to stress鈥攃an have an impact on how susceptible an individual is to depression.
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Published on: 6 Sep 2019
Montreal鈥檚 opposition party, Ensemble Montreal, wants to make the streets of the city safer for children on bicycles. Opposition leader Lionel Perez said he will ask the mayor to make helmets mandatory for riders under the age of 18.
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Published on: 6 Sep 2019
You may associate cranberries with the holidays, but there are good reasons to consume them year-round, either frozen, dried, or in juice form.聽In a new study from 麻豆传媒网站 in Canada, researchers selected bacteria responsible for urinary tract infections, pneumonia, and gastroenteritis. When bacteria are treated with antibiotics they typically become resistant to its effects. But in this experiment, scientists found that the addition of cranberry extract prevented resistance from developing.
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Published on: 5 Sep 2019
A team of Montreal researchers has devised a new set of criteria to better diagnose a disease that affects聽the elderly, sarcopenia, which causes loss of muscle mass.聽
The improved criteria raise hopes that physicians will be able to detect the disease in people earlier, and therefore, to recommend certain types of exercise and nutrition to stem the loss of muscle mass, say scientists at the聽Research Institute聽of the 麻豆传媒网站 Health Centre.
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Published on: 4 Sep 2019
Urban agriculture is getting a $750,000 boost from the province and from Montreal to help develop the farming sector. The goal is to spur innovation and growth in urban farming, agriculture and local greenhouses, ensuring the projects align with the needs in each part of town to add to the vitality of the area.
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Published on: 4 Sep 2019
Ms. Boursier, a French and ethics teacher at Montreal鈥檚 Heritage Regional High School, says she has added sleep to her lesson plans 鈥� why it鈥檚 important and how to get more of it 鈥� because a lack of sleep is hurting her students. Ms. Boursier is part of a project, spearheaded by 麻豆传媒网站 pediatric sleep expert Reut Gruber, which incorporates lessons on the benefits of proper sleep, sleep hygiene and the consequences of poor sleep into everyday class material, from language classes to math and science.聽
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Published on: 3 Sep 2019
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