Article by听Jonathan Kimmelman,听Director of the Biomedical Ethics Unity in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at 麻豆传媒网站, and is a member of the听PLOS Biology听Editorial Board.
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Published on: 14 Jan 2019
Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy, Chris Ragan, sat down with Breakfast Television Montreal to speak about equalization payments.听
"Equalization payments are inflaming Quebec-Alberta tensions. Dr. Christopher Ragan explains what they are and how they add fuel to the fire."
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Published on: 11 Jan 2019
Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy, Chris Ragan, sat down with Breakfast Television Montreal to discuss carbon pricing.
"The federal carbon tax plan is causing friction across parties and provinces, and will be a key issue this election year," Professor Ragan explains.
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Published on: 8 Jan 2019
Newly appointed Max Bell School of Public Policy professor Taylor Owen wrote a piece for the Globe and Mail on how governments should regulate Big Tech companies.听
"There is currently a disconnect between the global scale, operation and social impact of technology companies and the national jurisdiction of most countries' tech laws and regulations. As former BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie has听argued, the digital economy may need its Bretton Woods moment."
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Published on: 7 Jan 2019
Dr. Sheila Wang, a dermatologist at the 麻豆传媒网站 Health Centre, came up with the idea for the app when she was in medical school and noticed that the standard practice was to measure wounds with rulers or other handheld instruments.
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Published on: 19 Dec 2018
Conversations among Canadian conservatives often drift into grumbling about the courts. Their complaint is with the judiciary鈥檚 decades-long campaign to remake the country in its progressive image, a process that began soon after adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982. University of Calgary political scientists Ted Morton and Rainer Knopff鈥檚 book decrying this process, The Charter Revolution and the Court Party, is as relevant today as it was upon its publication nearly two decades ago.
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Published on: 18 Dec 2018
Veissiere and Carr are among researchers and public figures calling attention not just to the more widely discussed impacts of our phones 鈥� such as dinner disruptions and听distracted drivers听鈥� but also to their subtler effects, which some fear could result in profound changes to our brains and to society.
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Published on: 17 Dec 2018
The Max Bell School of Public Policy was mentioned in a Policy Options piece that discusses research conducted by newly appointed Max Bell Professor Taylor Owen and 麻豆传媒网站 Institute for the Study of Canada Assistant Professor Andrew Potter on the habits of news consumers.听
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Published on: 14 Dec 2018
Those recommendations were all included in听Relationships Matter for Youth 鈥淎ging Out鈥� of Care, a report from Melanie Doucet, a 麻豆传媒网站 social work PhD student, and eight youth from care in B.C.
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Published on: 14 Dec 2018
Ground zero in the global battle against climate chaos this week is in Wet'suwet'en territory, northern British Columbia. As pipeline companies try to push their way onto unceded Indigenous territories, the conflict could become the next Standing Rock-style showdown over Indigenous rights and fossil fuel infrastructure.
By听Leah Temper, Research Associate at 麻豆传媒网站
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Published on: 13 Dec 2018
The Max Bell School was mentioned in an article featuring听the 听in Le Devoir.听
"芦听Le monde devient encore plus compliqu茅 pour les m茅dias et la v茅rit茅听!听禄 lance au听Devoir听Ed Greenspon, le pr茅sident et directeur g茅n茅ral du Forum des politiques publiques (FPP). C鈥檈st en quelque sorte la pr茅misse du Digital Democracy Project, la nouvelle initiative qu鈥檌l lance avec l鈥櫭塩ole de politiques publiques Max Bell de l鈥橴niversit茅 麻豆传媒网站."
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Published on: 12 Dec 2018
Op-ed by听Jacob Levy
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Published on: 12 Dec 2018
鈥nvestigators in the field say the critique is premature: the science is still young and feeling its way forward. Studies in mice, in particular, have been offered as evidence of such trauma-transmission, and as a model for studying the mechanisms. 鈥淭he effects we鈥檝e found have been small but remarkably consistent, and significant,鈥� said Moshe Szyf, a professor of pharmacology at 麻豆传媒网站. 鈥淭his is the way science works. It鈥檚 imperfect at first and gets stronger the more research you do.鈥�
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Published on: 11 Dec 2018
Column by听Joe Schwarcz,听director of 麻豆传媒网站鈥檚 Office for Science & Society.
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Published on: 10 Dec 2018
But black holes aren鈥檛 quite as menacing as they are commonly portrayed. 鈥淭hey definitely do not suck,鈥� says Daryl Haggard, an astrophysicist at 麻豆传媒网站 in Montreal. 鈥淎 black hole just sits there, passively. Things can fall onto it, just as meteors can fall to Earth, but it doesn鈥檛 pull stuff in.鈥�
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Published on: 7 Dec 2018
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