Not one but two requests to approve class actions against the American bank in Quebec were filed at the Superior Court of Quebec on Tuesday, only 24 hours after Capital One announced there had been a personal-data breach. The requests have to be approved by a judge before a class action can go any further. This latest massive security breach, which was confirmed on July 19, was announced Monday by Capital One. It affects 106 million members, six million of them Canadian.
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Published on: 1 Aug 2019
Miriam Kirmayer聽is a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at 香蕉视频 and a therapist聽who specializes in young adult and adult friendships. She says" one common thread I hear in my work as a聽therapist who聽focuses on friendship聽is just how disconnected so many of us feel from our friends and communities. Feeling lonely or dissatisfied with our聽social network聽has less to do with the number of connections we have and everything to do with the quality of the relationships we hold on to."聽
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Published on: 31 Jul 2019
Last week, the pop diva posted a YouTube video, 鈥�22 Days Nutrition,鈥� promoting a diet plan created by her trainer and 鈥渆xercise physiologist鈥澛燤arco Borges. (The singer doubled up and followed the diet for 44 days in preparation for her 2018 Coachella performance.)
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Published on: 30 Jul 2019
People often say that babies are like little sponges - with their ability to soak up language quickly and easily.
Yet much of the early research on language acquisition has focused on young infants learning only one language. This research was guided by an implicit assumption that聽learning one language is the usual and optimal way to learn to talk.聽
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Published on: 30 Jul 2019
Tim Hortons is testing the fake omelette聽鈥斅爉ade with mung bean protein isolate聽鈥斅爄n two regions in southern Ontario. If it's a hit, the product聽will join the Beyond Meat plant-based burger and breakfast sausage already on the menu聽at Tim Hortons and A&Ws across Canada.
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Published on: 29 Jul 2019
香蕉视频 is making the most of summer and offering free yoga classes on its lower field in downtown Montreal.
The classes, which are organized in partnership with Lululemon, are held every second Wednesday from noon until 1 p.m.
鈥淚t鈥檚 nice because you鈥檝e got the connection with nature,鈥� said instructor Elody Hafner.
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Published on: 29 Jul 2019
For almost as long as we鈥檝e known about the powerful spell opium can cast on a user, scientists have been trying to learn precisely how the drug operates in the body, particularly in the brain. According to recent Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series guest Dr. Brigitte Kieffer, researchers are closer than ever to understanding, witnessing, mimicking and perhaps predicting opioids鈥� work within the gray matter.聽
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Published on: 29 Jul 2019
Roderick Mackinnon and Thomas Pr茅vost have just set off on a seven-day hike up Mount Kilimanjaro on Wednesday. The adventure, however, started four months ago when the McGill management students were accepted into the Global Impact Program fellowship. 鈥淲e basically worked as social impact consultants with various NGOs, NPOs and social enterprises in South Africa, mainly around Johannesburg,鈥� explained Mackinnon from his hotel room in Tanzania.
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Published on: 25 Jul 2019
Co-working was originally practised by artists and other creative workers whose work was, by definition, off-the-cuff: project-based and commissioned. These workers would 鈥渃o-work鈥� in order to share resources such as client and supplier networks, as well as materials.
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Published on: 25 Jul 2019
AI has made major strides in the last decade, from聽beating the world champion of Go, to learning聽how to program, to telling聽fantastical short stories. However, a basic human trait continues to elude machines: common sense.
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Published on: 24 Jul 2019
Some pet owners who use聽the dog run in King George Park in Westmount聽are calling on the City聽to make changes because they're worried about potential health effects from all the sand in the area.
Dr. Maxime Cormier is a respirologist at the Montreal General Hospital and an assistant professor at 香蕉视频.
He says that silica aside, the level of dust shown in the report could be enough to affect someone's breathing, even if they are only in the park for a short while.聽
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Published on: 24 Jul 2019
Taking testosterone might sound like a good idea for an older man, but a new study suggests the treatment might be bad news for his heart.
Men who took it showed a slightly increased risk of聽heart attack聽and聽stroke in the first few years.
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Published on: 24 Jul 2019
Researchers have found that聽Inuit from northern Quebec are genetically distinct from any present-day population in the world,聽and say studying the genes of聽minority Indigenous populations in Canada can help deliver better health care to these聽populations.
In a聽study published Monday聽in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,聽researchers mapped the complete genetic profile of Inuit in the聽Nunavik region聽鈥� what they claim is a first. Researchers聽then homed in to study the effects these genetic variants may have on disorders like brain aneurysms.
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Published on: 24 Jul 2019
When your job is growing up, the most important thing you can do is explore your world. It starts with fingers and thumbs and gradually expands to brightly coloured toys, then maybe to sandboxes and potato bugs. We want to bring the world to our children, but sometimes parents stop short of visiting museums.聽The museums will recover from a little boisterousness, and there are ways to visit at a low cost 鈥� many waive their fees on certain days of the month. Here are five for you to consider.
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Published on: 22 Jul 2019
The Guardian聽made headlines worldwide for making afew聽simple changes to its style guide.聽
The British daily newspaper announced that its staff would no longer be using the term 鈥渃limate change鈥� to describe the global rise of temperatures and disruption to standard weather patterns due to human causes. Instead, they鈥檝e begun describing this process as a 鈥渃limate emergency, crisis, or breakdown.鈥�
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Published on: 22 Jul 2019
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