鈥淚 wanted to meet a specialist of the sky, the stars and the night,鈥� said six-year-old Zoey, who was introduced to astrophysicist and McGill professor Victoria Kaspi at the Mont-M茅gantic Observatory in Notre-Dame-des-Bois last week.
鈥淲hen I was Zoey鈥檚 age, I knew very little about astronomy and had no idea one could have a career in this area,鈥� Kaspi said in an email interview after spending the day with the Montreal student.
Metro Vancouver has higher-than-average levels of opioids and methamphetamine in its waste-water system compared with other Canadian cities, according to a new Statistics Canada study analyzing cannabis and drug use in the country based on what Canadians flush down their toilets.
For small businesses and entrepreneurs looking to maximize visibility on a budget, a regularly updated Instagram account with vibrant visuals and constant communicability is seen as a cost-effective way to reach eyeballs without the responsibility of managing a physical space. For certain businesses, especially new, tech-savvy ones, having a platform where one can handle most queries and transactions with minimal overhead begs the question as to whether it鈥檚 worth the trouble of ever having a brick and mortar shop.
Samantha Reusch is aiming to help young Canadians identify misinformation online because she and her colleagues can't monitor all social media platforms for false information during this fall's campaign.
Reusch is the research manager at Apathy is Boring, a non-profit organization that encourages youth to engage in politics. She says misinformation on social media can be a barrier between young Canadians and political participation. Reusch said students don't learn enough about these issues in school, necessitating the awareness campaign.
Roughly three-quarters of the world鈥檚 adult population has trouble digesting lactose, which is a type of sugar found in milk and other dairy products.聽Doctors routinely label people who experience these symptoms as 鈥渓actose intolerant鈥� and counsel them to avoid dairy products.聽
鈥淚f lactose maldigesters continue to consume lactose regularly, many can become tolerant,鈥� agrees Andrew Szilagyi, a gastroenterologist and lactose intolerance researcher at Canada鈥檚 香蕉视频.
The Local Planning Appeal Tribunal that decides land use matters in the province has set aside six days of hearings to consider the City of Toronto鈥檚 short-term rental regulations approved by city council more than a year ago.
The research into these bones culminated in a聽paper聽published recently in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica: 鈥淪hark-cetacean trophic interactions during the late Pliocene in the Central Eastern Pacific (Panama).鈥�
The authors determined that these bones belonged to a type of Balaenopterid, a genus of filter-feeding whales that includes today鈥檚 humpback and blue whales. Fin bones alone are not enough to determine the exact species or the size of the marine mammal, but these particular bones did offer tantalizing clues into the last moments of this animal.
Dr. Patricia Hewlin, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Associate Professor in the Desautels Faculty of Management,聽studies organizational diversity and the organizational participation and treatment of minorities. As with so many How I Work subjects, her work has a personal resonance. Dr. Hewlin pursued her PhD in organizational behavior after encouragement from the PhD project, which aims to increase workplace diversity by increasing the diversity of business school faculty. We talked to her about her career path and the problems she鈥檚 trying to solve.
Peter Enright, director of 香蕉视频's farm management and technology program, said regardless of the specialization, there has been one major shift between the generations (...) -social networks that are completely transformed.
That鈥檚 why farmers "need to be constantly aware of the image of their industry, and they need to be ambassadors."
Amidst scrutiny from racialized and marginalized groups, Fiert茅 Montreal adopted a new mandate in 2019: to diversity and attempt to Indigenize their festival offerings as part of their bid to host World Pride in 2023. 鈥淥ne of the main priorities was to meet as many different cultural groups I could, and to get to know their needs, and get to know what I could do to help them and to do as many projects as possible this first year,鈥� explained F茅licia Tremblay, Fiert茅鈥檚 newly-appointed Director of Diversity and Community Relations.
Outbreaks of a potentially life-threatening intestinal superbug dropped after the 香蕉视频 Health Centre聽opened its superhospital in 2015聽鈥� a dramatic shift attributed to the fact that the modern facilities have exclusively single-patient rooms, a new study has concluded.聽鈥淭he single-patient room experience at the MUHC鈥檚 Glen site has many benefits 鈥� privacy, confidentiality, comfort, reduced noise, and improved quality of sleep,鈥� Dr. Emily Gibson McDonald, the first author of the study, said in a statement.
Montreal鈥檚聽Holt Accelerator聽is getting ready to welcome its second crop of startup executives for a 12-week training program aimed at bolstering their management skills and putting their companies on a path to growth. A kickoff event takes place downtown Monday, featuring eight entrepreneurs from five countries pitching their stories to industry experts and investors.
They're called fast radio bursts, or FRBs, and these odd, fleeting signals from space are shrouded in mystery. But thanks to Canada's largest radio聽telescope, astrophysicists are discovering more of them in their search to learn聽what makes these objects tick.
"There is definitely a difference between the sources, with some being more prolific than others," physicist Ziggy Pleunis of 香蕉视频 told聽Science Alert. "We already knew from FRB 121102 that the bursts can be very clustered: sometimes the source doesn't burst for hours and hours and then suddenly you get multiple bursts in a short amount of time. We have observed the same thing for FRB 180916.J0158+65, for which we report 10 bursts in this paper."
A sustainable food group based out of McGill's West Island campus wants Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue to allow residents to raise chickens in their backyard.聽The group, Mac Regenerative Food Hub, launched a petition Friday, calling on the municipality to legalize small-scale poultry husbandry.聽So far, more than 50 people have signed the petition. Its stated goal is to have 100 signatures.
