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This week, the Canada Council for the Arts announced that Montreal architecture and design studio T B A will represent Canada at the prestigious event with their project Impostor Cities — which will be curated by David Theodore, the Canada Research Chair in Architecture at 鶹ýվ.

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Published on: 18 Mar 2019

Video with Karl Moore:"I would urge Canadians to be a bit patient with Air Canada and WestJet because it’s not their fault that the plane is grounded."

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Published on: 15 Mar 2019

Few see the world like Sarah Moser, one of the planet's most prominent researchers into a phenomenon that's taking over how we live:"New cities are seen as a way to transition economies from resource-based economies into a digital era. And oftentimes real estate is a key part of this project. It's an extremely lucrative business around the world right now. This is big money."

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Published on: 14 Mar 2019

Aiming to inspire the next generation of scientists, the鶹ýվ Health Centreand theEnglish Montreal School Boardare teaming up to pair high school students with researchers on a wide range of projects.

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Published on: 13 Mar 2019

“Could this erosion of an already meagre benefit help explain why you can barely walk a block in downtown Montreal without seeing someone begging for change, or why people sleep on the street in minus 30-degree weather? Meanwhile, the Quebec government is sitting on a budget surplus that could reach $4.6 billion this year.”

Op-ed by Richard Goldman, a Montreal lawyer and a lecturer in the 鶹ýվ School of Social Work

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Published on: 12 Mar 2019

“We’re a G-7 country, and we manage to get an election started and finished in six weeks,” said Andrew Potter, a professor at Montreal’s 鶹ýվ Institute for the Study of Canada.

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Published on: 12 Mar 2019

Global Montreal’s Laura Casella interviews 鶹ýվ Principal Suzanne Fortier for International Women’s Day.

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Published on: 11 Mar 2019

Canadian immigration policy has a checkered past, even as it was essential to building the country we know today. The Agenda discusses how past governments channeled immigrants to diverse parts of Canada.

Interview with Laura Madakoro, Department of History and Classical Studies

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Published on: 1 Mar 2019

The world of retail is changing at a dizzying pace, and the transformation extends far beyond online shopping. Areportissued by the World Economic Forum in 2017 on the future of consumption noted that retail is becoming more “inspirational, exciting, simple and convenient” in order to meet the needs of the empowered consumer. 鶹ýվ is embracing this change, having recently launched the newBensadoun School of Retail Managementto lead research and prepare the next of leaders to navigate today’s new retail landscape.

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Published on: 28 Feb 2019

But others predict that the He affair might propel human gene editing forwards. Jonathan Kimmelman, a bioethicist specializing in human trials of gene therapies at 鶹ýվ in Montreal, Canada, argues that definitive action in the wake of the scandal could expedite global cooperation on the science and its oversight. “That would stimulate, not hinder, meaningful advance in this area,” he says.

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Published on: 27 Feb 2019

Pediatric neurologist Genevieve Bernard chats with research assistant Kether Guerrero at the MUHC in Montreal on Monday, Feb. 25, 2019. Bernard joined forces with scientists from the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine in San Diego to discover a new genetic mutation responsible for a rare paediatric neurodevelopmental condition known as VARS-related disorder.

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Published on: 26 Feb 2019

鶹ýվ is upgrading its heating system as part of the effort to fight global warming.The school was given $1.8 million from the federal government’s Low-Carbon Economy Fund for Climate Action.The school said part of that money will go towards upgrading its boiler system from natural gas to electric, saying that would reduce energy use.

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Published on: 25 Feb 2019

Refused entry to 鶹ýվ medical school because she was a woman, Abbott went on to work for the university.

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Published on: 22 Feb 2019

Methanol—a colourless liquid that can be made from agricultural waste—has long been touted as a green alternative to fossil fuels. But it’s toxic and only has half the energy as the same volume of gasoline. Now, Chao-Jun Li and colleagues report they’ve created a potentially cheap way to use sunlight to convert methanol to ethanol, a more popular alternative fuel that’s less harmful and carries more energy.

Classified as: Green Chemistry, Chao-Jun Li, methanol, ethanol, fuel, Research, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
Published on: 21 Feb 2019

Rich foods to comfort in a time of need are also the case in Mexico, as Kristin Norget, associate professor of anthropology at 鶹ýվ in Montreal and author ofDays of Death, Days of Life: Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca, found while living and researching among traditional communities in the state of Oaxaca.

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Published on: 21 Feb 2019

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