When it comes to options for safe drinking water, experts say Canadians are often confused.
Some people still hold the belief that tap water in particular isn鈥檛 safe to drink, while others believe bottled water is so-called 鈥渉ealthier鈥� than tap or filtered water.
Ronald Gehr, an associate professor at the civil engineering department at 香蕉视频 in Montreal, told Global News there鈥檚 plenty of misinformation out there about bottled, filtered and tap water.
Arthritis Research Canada, the largest clinical arthritis research institution in North America , continues to grow with its newest centre located at 香蕉视频 .
Drs.聽聽Deborah Da Costa聽,聽聽Michal Abrahamowicz聽, Susan Bartlett and Marie Hudson will join the new location and bring with them a collective and extensive knowledge of arthritis research.
It's the height of the summer travel season, and if the country's major airports are anything to go by, commercial flights are humming along at a brisk clip, but there's not a 737 Max jet in sight 鈥� and likely won't be for months.
There is a huge need for the planes,聽said Karl Moore, an associate professor at the Desautel Faculty of Management at 香蕉视频聽who studies corporate strategy and organization and has advised several major airlines, including Air Canada.
In October 2017, a telescope operated by the University of Hawaii picked up a strange聽cigar-shaped object聽(artist rendering below), which had slingshotted past the sun at a more-than-brisk top speed of 196,000 miles per hour. Scientists at the university dubbed it 鈥極umuamua, Hawaiian for scout, and at first labeled it an asteroid, then a comet, but agreed that it came from another聽solar system.
But while scientists tossing around the idea of alien life may find a rapt public audience, they can also draw cynical, even hostile reactions from their fellow scientists
Many of the brightest, weirdest phenomena in space come from cataclysmic events like explosions or collisions. But many fast radio bursts (FRBs), one of the most mysterious space signals we鈥檝e seen, must not. That might mean that they are all part of a class of FRB that we previously thought might be rare.
At-home DNA testing kits have become a mainstream product for offering a look into a user's genetic heritage and even health pre-dispositions.聽
While they can offer insight into one's lineage, the results are often an approximation of genetics combined with results from their database of customers.
"It's pretty easy to identify siblings or first cousins in their database of participants," said 香蕉视频 human genetics professor Simon Gravel.
June 24, 2019 | Climate change affects many aspects of people's lives. As it is a common source of worry to doctors and economists alike, the proposed solutions to聽climate change are numerous.聽Chris Ragan, director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy and聽Courtney Howard, clinical associate professor at the Cumming School of Medicine (University of Calgary) argue that carbon pricing is the right solution. This piece connects the dots between health outcomes and worsening climate crisis, while exposing its societal financial costs.聽
A聽new study led by Dany Doiron, a research associate at the 香蕉视频 Health Center found that even moderate levels of air pollution can cause lung function impairment that rivals the damage caused by smoking. Researchers studied 303,887 British men and women, with data on lung health gathered by physical examination and air pollution statistics geographically coded to the participants鈥� home addresses.聽
The effects were particularly strong in low income populations and in people working where there is high exposure to contaminated air.
Some people see alcohol as something that is good for your health, if you consume it in moderate doses. While almost everyone knows alcohol can cause birth defects if you drink while pregnant or will ruin your liver if you drink excessively over many years, people tend to believe that low levels of alcohol consumption are safe, if not beneficial.
Bombardier plans to cut several hundred jobs at its Thunder Bay, Ont., facility, according to federal and provincial government sources.聽
Ontario Transportation Minister聽Caroline Mulroney said the provincial government has spoken to Bombardier executives "to express our disappointment that their company has taken this step."聽Bombardier is one of the聽biggest聽train聽and airplane manufacturers in the world. It is headquartered in Montreal, but has facilities around the globe.
Dr. Taylor Owen, holder of the Beaverbrook聽Chair in Ethics, Media and Communications received, with Dr. Elizabeth Dubois (University of Ottawa), a Canada History Fund聽grant to run the聽Digital Ecosystem Research Challenge. They have launched a聽call for proposals for projects examining the uses and impacts of digital media in the 2019 Canadian Federal Election.聽
Thomas Durcan, professor at the Montr茅al Neurological Institute of 香蕉视频聽is growing stem cells in a dish to develop better treatments for聽Parkinson鈥檚 disease.
Parkinson鈥檚 disease is an age-related movement disorder, characterized by rigidity and tremor, caused a loss of dopaminergic neurons over time. L-DOPA remains the聽most effective therapy for Parkinson鈥檚. But it was discovered back in the 1960s and no other disease-modifying therapy has emerged since then.
June 30, 2019 |聽For doctors across Canada, the evidence at the bedside is increasingly hard to ignore: climate change poses a serious health risk. Chris Ragan, Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy, adds that "Economics has a very clear prescription for these challenges: carbon pricing.聽In the same way that penicillin treats an infection, carbon pricing can help fight climate change."聽
We get bombarded with endless information, so the聽brain has to be selective, tossing out a memory聽unless it's told, "This one's important, keep it!"聽To be clear, we're not talking about disease or injury or age 鈥� just a normally functioning organ that prefers tidiness.聽"Without forgetting, we would have no memory at all"聽is the way assistant professor in psychology聽Oliver Hardt聽of 香蕉视频 puts it.聽It comes down to clutter.聽If a brain stored everything, it would be聽jam-packed with useful info, plus mounds of mental tchotchkes.聽
The sudden appearance of e-scooters in a city is a phenomenon 香蕉视频 geography Prof. Grant McKenzie half-jokingly refers to as the "scooter-pocalypse." McKenzie says Montrealers tend to like new technology and green policies, but he suspects the early days of the e-scooter era won't be easy.
(However), e-scooters might be able to take some of the strain off Montreal's crowded Metro system and crowded roads, according to Ahmed El-Geneidy, a professor of urban planning at McGill.
