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Karl Moore of Desautels Faculty of Management talks with Peter McGraw, a professor of marketing at the University of Colorado, about the place of humour at work.

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Researchers have previously demonstrated that approximately half of the pay gap between men and women (women earn about 20% less) is due to women having a tendency to work in different occupations and industries than men, a phenomenon called 鈥済ender segregation.鈥� But what causes this gender segregation? Wharton management professor Matthew Bidwell and Roxana Barbulescu, a management professor at 香蕉视频 in Montreal, decided to find out and what they uncovered is that negative employer behavior isn鈥檛 the only cause of gender segregation.

A sensitive diagnostic test implemented last year at the Royal Victoria Hospital is showing consistently higher rates of detection for a potentially fatal superbug than a test currently used at most Montreal hospitals, officials said Wednesday. At least one surgery patient has spoken to The Gazette about being sent home from the Royal Victoria Hospital last month as a preventive measure because of an outbreak of Clostridium difficile, a bacterium that can cause damage to the bowel and lead to severe diarrhea in people at risk.

From the shade of an adobe house overlooking Peru's Santa River, Jimmy Melgarejo squints at the dual peaks of Mount Huascar谩n looming against a cloudless sky. 鈥淭he snow keeps getting farther away,鈥� says Melgarejo, a farmer worried about his livelihood. 鈥淚t's moving up, little by little. When the snow disappears, there will be no water.鈥� Throughout the Andes, millions of people voice the same concern as they watch climate change eat away at the mountain chain's icy mantle. But although everyone fears a water shortage, they do not know how quickly it will come or how severe it will be.

Montrealers have long assumed a fair amount of dirty money sloshes through their city鈥檚 politics, but only lately are they learning just how bad things are. This week the mayor had to resign, a mayor of a neighboring town may soon follow him, and taxpayers don鈥檛 know whether to laugh or weep over the revelation of a safe so bulging with cash that a campaign fundraiser needed help shutting the door. [鈥�] Antonia Maioni, a political science professor at Montreal鈥檚 香蕉视频, said the investigation was having a powerful effect, positive and negative.

New Brunswick's largest health authority announced this week it will move from a do or do not resuscitate policy to one that gives patients more choices about end-of-life care, as hospital authorities nationwide increasingly push for Canadians to be clear about their wishes well before they're clinging to life. [鈥�] "I'm sure they've got good intentions in doing this, I'm sure they're wanting to be guided by the patient's wishes and I guess best interests," said Margaret Somerville, the founding director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at 香蕉视频.

Meat production stinks. And I鈥檓 not referring to worries about bacterial contamination; I mean it literally stinks. Here鈥檚 the story. Hold your nose.