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Dr. Myrna Lashley, assistant professor in psychiatry at 鶹ýվ discusses the report she authored and what efforts are being made to help fix the issues.

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Published on: 4 Dec 2017

However, Richard Shearmur, a geography professor with 鶹ýվ School of Urban Planning, has doubts about the project andfears taxpayers will be left with a hefty bill for extras. “I don’t think anyone can tell if it will be finished on Dec. 1, but it seems that the deadline will probably be missed,” Shearmur said. He blamed the public-private partnership (PPP) model chosen for the bridge.

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Published on: 1 Dec 2017

Article by Merve Emre, assistant professor of English Literature at 鶹ýվ.

"Bad readers were not born, they were created. To know them is to understand literature and politics in postwar America."

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Published on: 29 Nov 2017

鶹ýվ law professor Daniel Weinstock says he heartily recommends his students take up criminal law in order to take advantage of the country's new, strict cannabis laws. "There is going to be a steady stream of customers," Weinstock said, referring to the influx of people he estimates will be moving through the justice system.

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Published on: 29 Nov 2017

鶹ýվ is planning to open an indoor bicycle centre with 350 parking spaces, showers and lockers as part of a plan to reduce its carbon footprint over the next three years and achieve carbon neutrality by 2040.

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Published on: 28 Nov 2017

The fact that people program AI to analyze specific information is also a factor. What if they tell it to focus on the wrong data sets? And what happens if everyone's AI is looking at the same things? "The market would become perfectly efficient," says Sebastien Betermier, a finance professor at 鶹ýվ. "There would be nothing to predict anymore."

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Published on: 23 Nov 2017

While the Borealis labs work collaboratively, she said the contribution of 鶹ýվ professor Jackie Cheung as an academic adviser will allow the Montreal lab to focus on his expertise of natural language processing.

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Published on: 22 Nov 2017

Op-ed by Richard Gold, James 鶹ýվ professor at 鶹ýվ

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Published on: 20 Nov 2017

British historian Daniel Beer was awarded the international Cundill History Prize at a gala in Montreal on Thursday for his book on Siberian penal colonies, The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars.

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Published on: 17 Nov 2017

“The authors of this study have developed a tool to determine the sensitivity of sea level rise at specific coastal sites to melting from different sectors of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets,” said Natalya Gomez, a geoscientist at 鶹ýվ in Canada who studies sea level rise. “This tool will help to provide coastal planners with improved sea level projections as models and measurements of ice loss are refined.”

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Published on: 16 Nov 2017

A group ofAfrican catfishhave fully embraced upside-down life. Their behavior is the result of a bottom-dwelling fish adapting to take advantage of oxygen-rich water near the surface. A catfish’s mouth is on its underside, so it was likely easiest for the fish to simply turn upside down and treat the top of the water the same as it used to treat the bottom says Lauren Chapman, who studies fish respiration at 鶹ýվ in Montreal, Quebec. “To an inverted catfish, the water’s surface is just another substrate,” she says.

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Published on: 14 Nov 2017

For experts like 鶹ýվ professorDr. Charles Sounan, who is a medical scientist and chief of the MUHC'sresearch and wellness division, the findings aretroubling and need to be addressed immediately. "It's like awakeupcall," said Sounan. "It tells us we don't do enough in terms of promoting wellness at work and promoting global health for our employees."

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Published on: 13 Nov 2017

The step would be a “game-changer,” said Bartha Knoppers, a health-policy expert at 鶹ýվ, in a presentation to the annual Till & McCulloch Meetings of stem-cell and regenerative-medicine researchers.

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Published on: 10 Nov 2017

Chantal Bouchard, a sociolinguist with 鶹ýվ, said the English obscenity is fairly commonly used by French speakers in informal conversation. Unlike French swear words, which Bouchard said have their origins in religious references, the English terms have less power to shock a listener, she said.

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Published on: 9 Nov 2017

Op-ed byChristopher Ragan,an economist and the inaugural director of 鶹ýվ's Max Bell School of Public Policy, which launches this week in Montreal.

"Good public policy is a foundation of peace and prosperity. But it doesn't just happen; it takes real effort by dedicated people who recognize the public interest. Canada needs more of them."

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Published on: 8 Nov 2017

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