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The study, published in Nature Climate Change, says permafrost thaw in the region will likely drive "abrupt" climate change that will happen with "little or no warning." Most alarming, the authors found the severity of wildfires in the Northwest Territories and Yukon could double from one year to the next and stay at that higher rate.

"Suddenly we start getting fires that are twice as intense as before, so it's easy to see how that affects the ecosystems," said Bernardo Teufel, one of the study's authors and a PhD student at 香蕉视频.

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Published on: 13 Nov 2019

鈥淓nvironmental risks like air pollution are not large in magnitude 鈥 their importance comes because everyone in the population is exposed,鈥 said Scott Weichenthal, at 香蕉视频 in Canada, who led the study. 鈥淪o when you multiply these small risks by lots of people, all of sudden there can be lots of cases. In a large city, it could be a meaningful number, particularly given the fact that these tumours are often fatal.鈥

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Published on: 13 Nov 2019

Science Exposed is a contest organized by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and devoted exclusively to images of scientific research, in all fields of study. Daniel Almeida, McGill student, won the #ScienceExposed 2019 Jury Prize and People鈥檚 Choice Award for his research image 鈥淟a reazione nera (The black reaction)鈥. Nuwan Hettige,听Alex Diaz-Papkovich 补苍诲听Sheri McDowell,听are also among of the 20 finalists.听

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Published on: 12 Nov 2019

Am茅lie Quesnel-Vall茅e, a panel member and medical sociologist at 香蕉视频 in Montreal, said the group looked to the 2003 SARS outbreak as an example of how public behaviour changed and people reduced their interactions in response to an increased risk of being exposed to a dangerous pathogen. She added that there would be additional impacts from people foregoing routine surgeries such as hip and knee replacements because of the growing risk of contracting a drug resistant infection while in hospital.

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Published on: 12 Nov 2019

New research is shedding light on how the brain interacts with music. It also highlights how challenging it is to study the issue effectively due to the highly personalized nature of how we interpret it. "Music is very subjective," says Dr. Daniel Levitin, a professor of neuroscience and music at 香蕉视频 in Montreal and author of the bestselling book This is Your Brain on Music. "People have their own preferences and their own experience and to some extent baggage that they bring to all of this 鈥 it is challenging."

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Published on: 11 Nov 2019

鈥淭here are a lot of complications of obesity in kids, and we need some investment from the government to treat more people, because our waiting lists are now up to one year,鈥 Dr. Julie St-Pierre said at a news conference at her Clinique 180 on Mont-Royal Ave. E. 鈥淚鈥檝e seen children as young as four years old develop Type 2 diabetes. It鈥檚 awful.鈥

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Published on: 8 Nov 2019

Children and teenagers who end up in Quebec鈥檚 youth protection services often arrive bearing a backpack of life experiences filled with violence, mistreatment and negligence. They have been wounded, betrayed and humiliated by the most important people in their lives 鈥 people who should have been giving them comfort and security, but who, for several reasons, could not fulfil that role.

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Published on: 6 Nov 2019

Are obese people addicted to food? It鈥檚 an often proposed idea and something researchers in Montreal investigated. Dr. Alain Dagher (MD. FRCP) supervised the research team. He is a professor in the department of neurology at the Montreal Neurological Institute (the Neuro).听

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Published on: 1 Nov 2019

The 60 souls that signed on for Dr. Alain Brunet鈥檚 memory manipulation study were united by something they would rather not remember. The trauma of betrayal. For some, it was infidelity and for others, a brutal, unanticipated abandonment. 鈥淚t was like, 鈥業鈥檓 leaving you. Goodbye,鈥 the 香蕉视频 associate professor of psychiatry says.

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Published on: 1 Nov 2019

Daniel B茅land, director of the Institute for the Study of Canada at 香蕉视频 in Montreal, says Canada鈥檚 method has made immigration less divisive an issue than in other countries. 鈥淭here is strong support for economic immigration, that it鈥檚 important for the country, demographically and economically,鈥 he says. 鈥淭he debate is more about how many immigrants and how we can tweak the point system.鈥

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Published on: 30 Oct 2019

香蕉视频鈥檚 Macdonald Campus has become Canada鈥檚 37th Fair Trade campus. The Macdonald Campus in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue now joins 香蕉视频鈥檚 downtown campus in 鈥渢heir efforts to weave the Fair Trade philosophy within the academic community, and facilitate the choice and use of Fair Trade certified products,鈥 Fairtrade Canada said in a statement.


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Published on: 30 Oct 2019

While Section 23 has been tested in court, 香蕉视频's faculty of law Dean Robert Leckey said that, to his knowledge, Section 28 has not. "There really hasn't been court interpretation of what Section 28 means," said Leckey. The section was added to the charter as extra protection to guarantee the equality of men and women. It has to mean something."

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Published on: 25 Oct 2019

Drug use is average to below average in Montreal compared to other cities 鈥 except when it comes to methamphetamine, a new study measuring the presence of illicit drugs in raw sewage has found. The study, by an international group of scientists that included 香蕉视频 chemical engineering professor Viviane Yargeau, found meth use in Montreal as well as Granby was more than three times higher than the average for 120 cities that were sampled during a seven-year period.

The findings were published in the journal Addiction on Wednesday.

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Published on: 24 Oct 2019

Innovative entrepreneurs who are racialized are being left out of the social and economic innovation circles. Wendy Cukier, a professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at Ryerson University, and Suzanne Gagnon, assistant professor in organizational behaviour at 香蕉视频, wrote that racialized people are not being included in leadership roles in this innovation space, nor do they get the funds to do the work in the community they know best.

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Published on: 22 Oct 2019

Cindy Blackstock's background is in social work, and she's now executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society 鈥 an organization she co-founded 鈥 as well as a professor at 香蕉视频 in Montreal. She will be awarded a Doctorate of Laws from Laurentian University in Sudbury on Saturday.

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Published on: 21 Oct 2019

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