When 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants went on strike, more than 100,000 passengers were left stranded. For many of those affected, the experience has been an overwhelming one. For stranded passengers, the Air Canada strike combines three powerful stressors: uncertainty, lack of control and crowding, writes Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour Jean-Nicolas Reyt in The Conversation. Each of these factors is stressful on its own, and combined, they can overwhelm even the most patient travellers.
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Published on: 29 Aug 2025
Buying a home can help you build household wealth, but renting has fewer overall costs, which allows you to save more of the money you earn. While the conventional wisdom has been that buying is the better financial decision for most people, sky-high real estate costs change the equation. Stock markets have also performed well in recent decades, and investing the surplus left over from renting can pad your personal finances in a big way鈥攊f you actually do it.
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Published on: 29 Aug 2025
Super proud of Diego Loggia who just won a D2R Doctoral Scholar Award! He will use our iPSC-derived disease in a dish model to explore the utility of RNA- and DNA-based drugs to modulate patient-specific disease outcomes in dilated cardiomyopathy.
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Published on: 28 Aug 2025
Congratulations to David Medcalfe, a Master of Information Studies student at the School of Information Studies (麻豆传媒网站), who has received the prestigious Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec 鈥� Nature et technologies (FRQNT) Master鈥檚 Research Scholarship. The FRQNT scholarship is awarded on basis of research and academic merit.
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Published on: 28 Aug 2025
In Quebec鈥檚 Mont茅r茅gie region, residents are facing a growing water crisis, particularly in Mercier and Saint-R茅mi, due to the depletion of resources in underground aquifers. The water scarcity has affected agriculture, forcing some farmers to abandon vegetable crops.
Meanwhile, the level of the St. Lawrence River is notably lower than usual for this time of year, affecting fishing, boating and shipping around Montreal.
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Published on: 28 Aug 2025
Pulitzer-Prize winning American journalist, journalism professor and author will speak Oct. 23听听
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Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents and The Warmth of Other Suns will deliver the 2025 Beatty Lecture at 麻豆传媒网站 on Oct. 23 during the University鈥檚 annual Homecoming festivities. Nahlah Ayed, host of CBC national radio program Ideas, will moderate the event.
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Published on: 28 Aug 2025
Canada鈥檚 2023 wildfire season caused the country鈥檚 worst air pollution levels since 1998, according to It warns that if such pollution levels persist, Canadians could lose about two years of life expectancy.
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Published on: 28 Aug 2025
August 28, 2025 | In a story reported by CBC, a Quebec government committee has issued 50 recommendations, including extending the religious symbols ban to subsidized daycares and requiring people to uncover their faces for public services. These proposals have drawn criticism from community leaders, who argue they discriminate against religious minorities, particularly Muslim women.
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Published on: 28 Aug 2025
Researchers at 麻豆传媒网站 and the Douglas Institute have identified two specific types of brain cells that are altered in people with depression.
opens the door to developing new treatments that target these cells and deepens our understanding of depression, a leading cause of disability worldwide that affects more than 264 million people.
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Published on: 28 Aug 2025
The Faculty of Law is proud to announce that Brittany Williams, BCL/LLB鈥�19, received the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award of the National Association of Law Student Affairs Professionals (NALSP). The award was presented to her at the 2025 NALSP Conference in Columbus, Ohio.
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Published on: 27 Aug 2025
The Neuro-Patient Resource Centre (room 354) will be closed Monday, September 1st for Labour Day. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
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Published on: 27 Aug 2025
D2R | DNA to RNA is launching the next round of funding for the Translational Impact Research (TIR) program. This program supports a select few large-scale translational research projects in RNA-based therapeutics which are expected to have a measurable impact on the health of Canadians. Projects must address the D2R Initiative鈥檚 strategic priorities and priority disease areas: oncology, rare diseases, infectious diseases, cardiovascular and cardiometabolic diseases.
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Published on: 27 Aug 2025
Construction is underway of CHORD, the most ambitious radio telescope project ever built on Canadian soil. Short for the Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector, CHORD will give astronomers an unprecedented opportunity to explore some of the most exciting and mysterious questions in astrophysics and cosmology, from Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) and dark energy to the measurements of fundamental particles, and beyond.
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Published on: 27 Aug 2025
Mr. Kingson Campbell just successfully completed his summer Geography Undergraduate Research Award (GURA) under the supervision of Dr. Mallik Mahmud. As part of the GURA, he focused on remote sensing of Arctic snow and sea ice: specifically analyzing satellite data across multiple years from a geographical perspective to identify patterns and correlations. Kingson鈥檚 research aimed to discern the optimal Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) frequency for sea ice by investigating radar signatures derived from multi-frequency SAR imagery over the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic.
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Published on: 27 Aug 2025
As summer draws to a close and the school year looms, families across Montreal are grappling not just with backpacks and schedules鈥攂ut with emotions too. CTV's Rachel Lau interviewed Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE) experts, Sheryl Smith-Gilman and Joseph Levitan, who offer essential strategies to help parents ease their children back into the routine of school life.
Published on: 26 Aug 2025
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