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Mental health in high-performing research environments is a shared responsibility and a growing challenge we must address together.

Every professor, student, research staff, and administrative staff can play a vital role in creating healthy, supportive, and inclusive research spaces. This includes standing by colleagues who disclose their disabilities and ensuring everyone can thrive.

Classified as: D2R, D2R Initiative, EDI, equity, diversity, inclusion, mental health, International Day for Persons with Disabilities
Published on: 19 Nov 2025

A study on the legal history of printing press regulation in early modern England yields insights relevant to contemporary debates on the regulation of emerging technologies like AI and virtual reality, a 鶹ýվ researcher says.

Classified as: Faculty of Law
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Published on: 19 Nov 2025

The CMHC reported an increase in vacancy rates across Quebec this summer, and since then, there increasingly have been reports of landlords struggling to find tenants. However, questions regarding the availability of affordable housing remain. ()

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Published on: 18 Nov 2025

During the summer of 2025, the Guiengola Archaeological Project, directed by Guillermo Ramón Celis--Banting Postdoctoral Researcher in the Anthropology Department at 鶹ýվ--mentored twelve students from Mexico's National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH). Together, they surveyed a neighborhood of Guiengola, a fortified Zapotec city in southern Oaxaca that was occupied during the period when Europeans first arrived in the region.

Published on: 18 Nov 2025

Large language models are changing the way we do business - or at least that’s what the companies that make AI tools will tell you. In practice, many companies know that AI tools are very powerful but are still figuring out how best to use them. This year's 鶹ýվ-FIAM Asset Management Hackathon competition asked business students to put large language models to the test and devise a bottom-up approach to building a portfolio powered by AI.

Classified as: AI, Asset Management, Case Competitions and Challenges
Published on: 18 Nov 2025

As the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) is currently being held in Belém, Brazil, eighteen Quebec universities are reaffirming the climate emergency and the need to combine their efforts and expertise to meet this global challenge. This mobilization is part of a movement of enhanced cooperation, where higher education institutions play a central role in the transition to a resilient, equitable and low-carbon society.

Classified as: climate action
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Published on: 18 Nov 2025

鶹ýվ researchers at the Douglas Research Centre have found evidence that heavy cannabis use during pregnancy can cause delays in brain development in the fetus that persist into adulthood.

Using advanced MRI techniques, the team tracked the effects of prenatal cannabis exposure in mice across key developmental stages.

Classified as: Lani Cupo, Mallar Chakravarty, Douglas Research Centre, Department of Psychiatry
Published on: 18 Nov 2025

November 17, 2025 | Pearl Eliadis recently spoke to Radio-Canada's ICI RDI on the right to housing as a proposed tool to combat homelessness. 

Currently in Quebec, there is no explicitly stated right to guaranteed housing. Eliadis discussed the role of the state in protecting vulnerable populations, as well as how the Quebec government can take action to treat housing as a top priority.

Classified as: Pearl Eliadis, housing crisis, Our People, Québec Homelessness Prevention Policy Collaborative
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Published on: 17 Nov 2025

When then-鶹ýվ undergraduate Maya Willard-Stepan cold-emailed a professor asking to help with their research, she didn’t expect the project to end up in the Nature-partner journal .

“I really wanted to get involved in research early,” said Willard-Stepan, who had come to 鶹ýվ from a small town on Vancouver Island.

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Published on: 17 Nov 2025

 for 2025 show that while cancer deaths are declining overall, the rate of new cases continues to rise, and that Quebec has the highest cancer incidence rate in the country.  

Classified as: Lucy Gilbert, ʱ, nicole ezer, Jonathan Spicer
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Published on: 17 Nov 2025

On the Conference Defence Associations Institute's Expert Series, Vincent Rigby analyzed the 2025 Canadian Budget's major increase in defence spending and the creation of the Defence Investment Agency. He welcomed the focus on procurement reform and a stronger defence industrial base, while cautioning that new machinery will take time to deliver results. Rigby also stressed the importance of transparency and steady cooperation with the United States through NORAD and other defence efforts.

Classified as: Vincent Rigby, defence, national security, budget
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Published on: 17 Nov 2025

November 17, 2025 | A co-authored article by Jennifer Welsh, based on an international conference organized at 鶹ýվ in December 2024 on IDP participation, has been published in the Journal of Refugee Studies. The article, titled "IDP perspectives on IDP participation," shares key arguments from the workshop. 

Classified as: Jennifer Welsh, human rights, United Nations
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Published on: 17 Nov 2025

Yolande E. Chan, Dean and James 鶹ýվ Professor at the Desautels Faculty of Management, has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), one of the country’s highest academic honours.

Recognized for her outstanding contributions to digital innovation, knowledge strategy, and business-IT alignment, Chan joins a distinguished cohort of scholars celebrated for advancing knowledge across disciplines.

Classified as: Yolande E. Chan, royal society of canada
Published on: 14 Nov 2025

Canada’s economy has faced a challenging year. Growth projections are down, yet the federal government’s 2025 budget commits billions to offset U.S. tariffs and adapt to shifting global trade dynamics.

The deficit for this fiscal year is expected to exceed $78 billion—but it could have been worse. “I was expecting that the deficit would move into 100 billions of dollars,” says վٱԲ a Professor of Quantitative Marketing and Analytics at 鶹ýվ Desautels.

Classified as: Quantitative Marketing, Vivek Astvansh
Published on: 14 Nov 2025

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