Thousands of healthy volunteers, including hundreds of Canadians, have offered to try getting injected with a potential vaccine and then purposely becoming infected with COVID-19 to test if the vaccine works.聽Jonathan Kimmelman, a professor of biomedical ethics at 香蕉视频, expressed concerns about the risks.
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Published on: 19 May 2020
Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the most feared predators in the Age of Dinosaurs, may have been built for endurance, not speed. A paper published Wednesday takes recent research on how mammals move and applies it to dinosaurs. Its conclusions support theories that the massive meat-eaters hunted in packs and opens a window into the ecology of the ancient forests they roamed. 鈥淲e鈥檙e trying to figure out how much energy is going into and flowing through paleo ecosystems,鈥� said Hans Larsson of Montreal鈥檚 香蕉视频, one of the paper鈥檚 co-authors.
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Published on: 14 May 2020
The current pandemic will change cities, experts predict, the way infectious disease outbreaks influenced the development of urban centres in decades past. 香蕉视频 urban planning professor David Wachsmuth said cities have historically gone through cycles of densification and what he called 鈥渟paceification鈥� 鈥� for example, after the Second World War when the federal government encouraged people to move from city centres to the 鈥渉ealthier鈥� suburbs.
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Published on: 11 May 2020
When Catherine Hankins first arrived in Montreal in 1986, she never expected she'd get into a spat with the聽provincial health minister. But eight months into a job in聽Montreal's public health department she made headlines for doing just that. The Alberta-born community medicine specialist had moved to Montreal just聽as a mysterious and little-understood new disease was terrorizing the gay community.
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Published on: 11 May 2020
May聽6, 2020 |聽Camps are the solution to many of the problems the school reopening is designed to solve, while significantly mitigating the risks of exposure and transmission. Going to camp gets children out of the house and lets their parents return to work.鈥� Andrew Potter, Associate Professor at the Max Bell School of Public Policy, explains how mass childcare and summer camps are a precursor to restarting the economy in the face of COVID-19.
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Published on: 7 May 2020
May 6, 2020 | 鈥淐ivil liberties are not designed only for times of peace and stability. They assume special, even critical, importance during public emergencies.鈥� In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and emergent lockdown policies, Pearl Eliadis discusses the importance of upholding civil liberties.
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Published on: 6 May 2020
芦 What has the science of聽happiness聽got to do with our current coronapocalypse? Plenty, of course. It is interesting that much of what is being discussed now about how to stay sane, connected, and even happy while locked up, or out of a job, is what economists studying 鈥渉appiness鈥� have been advocating for years. We all know at least some friends, colleagues, and family who have suffered tremendously from the isolation and disruption and, of course, many of us are struggling acutely as this post goes live.
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Published on: 5 May 2020
April 30, 2020聽| In this op-ed, Irwin Cotler argues that while the recent reforms in Saudi Arabia should be welcomed, the international community, Canada included, cannot give Saudi Arabia a pass.
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Published on: 5 May 2020
After one week on the job, members of the federal government鈥檚 new immunity task force say they are coming to grips with a towering wall of uncertainty that obscures the true extent of COVID-19 in Canada.
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Published on: 4 May 2020
Some provinces will begin reopening their economies next week, a move one public health expert described as a delicate experiment 鈥� because so little is known about how many people are immune to the COVID-19 virus,聽or how long such immunity might last. "This is all going to be tricky," said Dr. Catherine Hankins, who co-chairs the leadership group of the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force 鈥� part of the federal government's anti-pandemic research strategy.
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Published on: 4 May 2020
The province may push back the dates of schools reopening, especially in Montreal, if the spread of the virus does not slow down, said Ciriaco Piccirillo, a professor in the department of microbiology and immunology and in the departement of medicine at 香蕉视频.
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Published on: 4 May 2020
芦 The European Union is in trouble. From the start, its countries haven鈥檛 been on equal footing. But COVID-19 has shone a stark light on the dissimilarities between its national economies. The crisis has also laid bare that EU members have significantly different views on what obligations they have to one another.
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Published on: 4 May 2020
April 23, 2020 | For centuries Americans have battled others, and each other, in the name of freedom, sometimes weaponizing the word, sometimes twisting the notion out of recognition. David Shribman comments on the shifting definition of American liberty, and what it means in the context of the current protests against COVID-19 lockdown measures.
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Published on: 27 Apr 2020
The Arctic Ocean will be ice-free in the summer within the next 30 years, a聽study says, which will result in "devastating consequences for the Arctic ecosystem," according to聽香蕉视频聽in Montreal. Sea ice is frozen ocean water that melts each summer, then refreezes each winter. The amount of summer sea ice in the Arctic has been steadily shrinking over the past few decades because of global warming. Since satellite records began in 1979, summer Arctic ice has lost 40% of its area and up to 70% of its volume, the聽Guardian聽said.
Published on: 23 Apr 2020
April 17, 2020聽| The digital age has completely disrupted global governance. Now that COVID-19 has disrupted nearly everything else, it is time to start planning for what comes next, say Max Bell School professor聽Taylor Owen and聽Rohinton P. Medhora.
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Published on: 22 Apr 2020
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