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Prominent Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, 鶹ýվ professor emeritus, has been named the first-ever recipient of the Berggruen Prize.

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Published on: 6 Oct 2016

“Metformin lowers the rate of living,” Dr. Michael Pollak, a cancer oncologist at 鶹ýվ in Montreal and author on a 2013 paper that reached this conclusion, told me recently.

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Published on: 6 Oct 2016

We cannot build what we cannot imagine. Creating visions of positive futures is important work. And this is only the beginning- we hope to open up to a much wider visioning process. And of course, seeds of a better future won’t make a difference unless they can grow and be widely distributed. - Elana Bennett, ecosystem ecologist and geographer at 鶹ýվ.

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Published on: 6 Oct 2016

The end of September saw the formation of a new team of rivals: the Partnership on AI, whose motto is "to benefit people and society". The partnership includes tech giants Amazon, Google and its subsidiary Deepmind, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft.

Classified as: ethics, Microsoft, IBM, Artificial intelligence, Google, Facebook, data science in the news, Amazon, Deepmind
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Published on: 3 Oct 2016

Op-ed co-authored by Jean Monnet chair in the law of international economic integration at 鶹ýվ. « Airplanes in international flight are responsible for at least 2 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions – a considerable volume given that it’s the only form of emissions delivered directly at high altitude into the atmosphere.

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Published on: 3 Oct 2016

“The PQ’s discourse isn’t resonating among 18- to 34-year-olds. For Generation Y, support for the party is collapsing,” said political scientist Éric Bélanger of 鶹ýվ, who co-wrote the study with Valérie-Anne Mahéo of the Université de Montréal.

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Published on: 3 Oct 2016

鶹ýվ Prof. Kirsten Anker, who specializes in aboriginal peoples and the law, visited Akwesasne in May with a delegation from a Manitoba Cree community that was interested in the Mohawk system. “It’s being looked at as a model and a source of inspiration,” she said, adding the Akwesasne Mohawks are “at the forefront in pushing the self-government envelope.”

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Published on: 3 Oct 2016

Montreal jazz drummer/pianist and 鶹ýվ professor Andre White on why he just released three CDs of original music.

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Published on: 30 Sep 2016

Karl Moore, an aviation expert at 鶹ýվ's Desautels Faculty of Management, found the collusion allegations far fetched. "I think it's highly unlikely they would collude. It's not the nature of the beast, they're just fierce competitors."

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Published on: 28 Sep 2016

Democratic strategist Adam Sharon and North American Studies professor at 鶹ýվ Tom Velk discuss and debate their performance.

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Published on: 27 Sep 2016

“At a time when the regime is inviting the world to invest in Iran and trying to attract diaspora Iranians, these arrests aren’t going to make anyone feel secure about doing business in Iran,” said Payam Akhavan, an associate professor of international law at 鶹ýվ.

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Published on: 27 Sep 2016

Op-ed by Howard P. Gibbs, instructor in issues management at 鶹ýվ School of Continuing Studies.

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Published on: 26 Sep 2016

"If you look at all the countries around the world, many of them have national birds, including the United States, which reveres its bald eagle. All of our provinces and territories and all of the states have an official bird and I think it's high time Canada has one too." Dr. David Bird, emeritus professor of wildlife biology.


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Published on: 26 Sep 2016

According to Charles Boberg, an associate professor of linguistics at 鶹ýվ and the author of The English Language in Canada, the Canadian accent is stubbornly persistent: “Canadian linguistic identity is here to stay on the long term.”

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Published on: 26 Sep 2016

Among those researchers is Jacob Vogel of 鶹ýվ’s integrative program in neuroscience. He works in Dr. Alan Evan’s lab, which specializes in brain imaging, or the mapping and rendering of how the brain works. “We take massive amounts of information, data, biological data, integrate it and try to understand things like disease and development,” said Vogel. “We try to understand the brain better.”

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Published on: 23 Sep 2016

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