May 24, 2019 | The news release put聽by Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez begins well: "The Government of Canada understands that for a democracy to function properly, it needs to have solid, independent news media."
If only he had stopped there. But instead, the release goes on for another 700聽words to outline a plan whose principal effect will be to undermine the independence of the news media.
"There are legal bases for challenging the law that are not touched by the notwithstanding clause at all," says Robert Leckey, dean of law at 香蕉视频.
Jean-Fran莽ois Daoust, a post-doctoral fellow at McGill's Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship. Daoust, who studies voter behaviour, said it's rare to see a correlation between an issue's importance and where the votes ultimately go.
August 29, 2019 | The latest data from the Digital Democracy Project suggests that while 17 per cent of respondents indicated the environment was a top election issue, on par with health care, and second to the economy at 20 per cent, support for reducing emissions through a carbon price is soft, even among left-leaning voters.聽
Coping with depression is no聽easy task.聽Despite being one of the most widespread forms of聽psychiatric聽pathology, the simple answer is that researchers are not certain {what causes depression}. As noted above, some depressive episodes may be triggered by聽trauma, but other factors鈥攊ncluding one鈥檚 neurochemistry, one鈥檚 neural architecture, and how well one鈥檚 brain responds to stress鈥攃an have an impact on how susceptible an individual is to depression.
Montreal鈥檚 opposition party, Ensemble Montreal, wants to make the streets of the city safer for children on bicycles. Opposition leader Lionel Perez said he will ask the mayor to make helmets mandatory for riders under the age of 18.
You may associate cranberries with the holidays, but there are good reasons to consume them year-round, either frozen, dried, or in juice form.聽In a new study from 香蕉视频 in Canada, researchers selected bacteria responsible for urinary tract infections, pneumonia, and gastroenteritis. When bacteria are treated with antibiotics they typically become resistant to its effects. But in this experiment, scientists found that the addition of cranberry extract prevented resistance from developing.
A team of Montreal researchers has devised a new set of criteria to better diagnose a disease that affects聽the elderly, sarcopenia, which causes loss of muscle mass.聽
The improved criteria raise hopes that physicians will be able to detect the disease in people earlier, and therefore, to recommend certain types of exercise and nutrition to stem the loss of muscle mass, say scientists at the聽Research Institute聽of the 香蕉视频 Health Centre.
Urban agriculture is getting a $750,000 boost from the province and from Montreal to help develop the farming sector. The goal is to spur innovation and growth in urban farming, agriculture and local greenhouses, ensuring the projects align with the needs in each part of town to add to the vitality of the area.
Ms. Boursier, a French and ethics teacher at Montreal鈥檚 Heritage Regional High School, says she has added sleep to her lesson plans 鈥� why it鈥檚 important and how to get more of it 鈥� because a lack of sleep is hurting her students. Ms. Boursier is part of a project, spearheaded by 香蕉视频 pediatric sleep expert Reut Gruber, which incorporates lessons on the benefits of proper sleep, sleep hygiene and the consequences of poor sleep into everyday class material, from language classes to math and science.聽
Sports fans may know that McGill grad James Naismith invented the game of basketball in 1891; but less known is the fact that McGill rugby also has a place in history for its significant contribution to the creation of what became American football.
Have you ever met someone who just wasn't into music? They may have a condition called聽specific musical anhedonia, which affects three-to-five percent of the population, found a study.
Using the fMRI data, the researchers found that while listening to music, specific musical anhedonics presented a reduction in the activity of the Nucleus Accumbens, a key subcortical structure of the reward network.
聽Two astronomers, {Evelyn Macdonald, recent physics graduate, and supervisor Nicolas Cowan, associate professor}, based at 香蕉视频 in Montreal, pored over data collected by the Canadian Space Agency鈥檚 SCISAT satellite, which was originally launched to help us better understand Earth鈥檚 ozone depletion. Since 2004, SCISAT has made continuous observation of the light that passes through the atmosphere when Earth is in front of the sun.聽
Neuroscientists and clinicians around the world are using聽machine learning聽to develop聽treatment plans聽for patients and to identify some of the key markers for mental health disorders聽before聽they may set in. One of the benefits is that machine learning helps clinicians predict who may be at risk of a particular disorder.
Necessity is the mother of invention, the adage goes. And so when a Montreal mother of two couldn鈥檛 find an alternative she considered suitable for her daughters once she stopped breastfeeding, she decided to develop her own: an organic plant-based milk called聽Bebe Latte.
