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鶹ýվ Prof. Amelie Quesnel-Vallee, director of the 鶹ýվ Observatory on Health and Social Services Reforms, warned that adding more private services would affect the public system. “Health professionals have to come from somewhere. If they’re practising in the private sector, they’re not in the public. Even if the private didn’t offer higher salaries, the increased demand would drive salaries up, and the public system would have to bear extra costs.”

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Published on: 10 Sep 2018

Brenda Milner is celebrated for her insight into recollections as a feature of neurobiology; the man who could only live in the present

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Published on: 24 Aug 2018

The 120-credit college program was designed in collaboration with Mohawk educators and will be taught on the South Shore territory. ... For 鶹ýվ, Monday’s announcement is part of its strategy to adapt to the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The university’s end goal is to double Indigenous enrolment by 2025.

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Classified as: TRC, Kahnawake, indigenous education, Faculty of Education
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Published on: 21 Aug 2018

En compilant les données des CRC, La Presse a pu remarquer que les femmes étaient peu présentes dans plusieurs institutions et domaines au Québec. ... L’Université 鶹ýվ est la seule institution de grande taille à atteindre sa cible. L’Université de Montréal et l’Université Laval accusent des retards importants. … « On a vraiment fait un effort pour mettre beaucoup de lumières sur les questions d’équité, de diversité et d’inclusion depuis quatre ans », affirme la vice-principale adjointe (politiques, procédures et équité) de l’Université 鶹ýվ, Angela Campbell...

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Published on: 21 Aug 2018

The funding will be split between separate projects looking into the properties of cannabidiol and a search for a new treatment of an aggressive brain cancer.

Classified as: cannabis, RI-MUHC, funding
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Published on: 16 Aug 2018

(Opinion byChristopher Ragan,director ofMax Bell School of Public Policy, 鶹ýվ.)

Four years ago, the Mount Polley disaster reminded us that mining comes with risks. On Aug. 4, 2014, a tailings dam at Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley copper and gold mine ruptured, spilling 24 million cubic metres of water and tailings into several lakes and rivers in British Columbia’s Interior. It was the largest tailings-dam rupture in Canadian history.

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Published on: 6 Aug 2018

“Several dozen new cities are being constructed in the Middle East, mainly to transition away from the petroleum industry to a variety of other industries, including tourism, manufacturing, education and hi-tech,” says Dr Sarah Moser, a 鶹ýվ geography professor and author of an upcoming atlas of new cities.“Many oil-producing states in the Middle East are eager to globalise their economies and attract international investors, particularly in anticipation of a post-oil world.

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Published on: 6 Aug 2018

(By Dr. Joe Schwarcz, Office for Science and Society at 鶹ýվ)

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Published on: 6 Aug 2018

As an invasive species of mussels begins to appear in Quebec’s Lac Memphramagog, local officials are trying to figure out just how big the infestation is.

“It’s a big concern,” said Josiane K. Pouliot of Magog, Que.’s Environment Division.

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Published on: 6 Aug 2018

(Opinion by Reuven Brenner,Professor, Finance/History/Political Science/Economics at 鶹ýվ)

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Published on: 6 Aug 2018

A team of volcanologists, chemists, physicists, and engineers from around the world test novel techniques at Central America’s two largest degassing volcanoes.

Classified as: Fiona Darcy, John Stix, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Volcanology
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Published on: 25 Jul 2018

Until the early 1990s, it took six separate, chemical reactions to make the painkiller and anti-inflammatory ibuprofen. Of the ingredients that went in, only about 40 percent were found in the final product. But in 1992, the chemical producer BHC Company started using anew wayto produce the drug using only three steps, utilizing about 80 percent of the initial ingredients. Today, the innovation in ibuprofen is considered a classic example of green chemistry—a set of ideas that, for the past few decades, has driven attention tosustainabilityin the pharmaceutical industry.

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Published on: 23 Jul 2018

(Opinion by JM Opal, Associate Professor of History, 鶹ýվ) A decade ago, as the scale of the disaster in Iraq began to sink in,American historians often compared the United States to ancient Rome. Both seemed to suffer from an imperial disease whose symptoms began with overreach and ended in collapse.

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Published on: 23 Jul 2018

(Opinion by Ivan O. Ozai, Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Law, 鶹ýվ) In the last few months, several countries have considered the idea of levying taxes on digital companies. But because these companies can operate from virtually anywhere, a digital tax would require updating old tax rules that only allow governments to tax companies that have a physical presence in the country.

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Published on: 9 Jul 2018

Scientists studying metformin say the generic drug slows the ‘burn rate’ in living cells in ways that increase longevity. […] Metformin, by contrast, has both an enviable safety profile and a decades-long history of human use, said Dr. Michael Pollak, director of cancer prevention in the department of oncology at 鶹ýվ. […]

Classified as: Metformin, Michael Pollak
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Published on: 9 Jul 2018

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