Youth are worried about the future. A national online survey聽conducted by Abacus Data, with 1,000 youth between the ages of 15 to 30, reveals our political priorities, our lack of trust in governments and the top issues we are currently facing. Like our peers, we worry about gender issues and the rise of extremism, but what we are most concerned about is the rising cost of housing, mental health issues, and knowing how to contribute to solving these issues.
A major multi-year refurbishment of Ste-Catherine Street is hurting businesses in downtown Montreal, according to local retailers.
Some argue that as brutal as the construction may be, it is needed.
鈥淭his is Montreal鈥檚 window in terms of retail to the rest of the world, and it鈥檚 been a street we have underinvested in for four to five decades,鈥 said Charles de Brabant, a professor at the Bensadoun School of Retail Management at 香蕉视频. 鈥淲e have to upgrade this street, and that will take pain and sorrow.鈥
Air Canada鈥檚 interest in buying rival Transat AT Inc. for about $520 million got positive feedback from industry watchers and stock traders after the two companies announced Thursday that they鈥檙e in exclusive talks to finalize a deal.
香蕉视频 professor Karl Moore said a combination of the two companies would help grow Air Canada Vacations, which competes with Transat, WestJet and others in the leisure travel market.
May 15, 2019 | Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other world leaders reunited in Paris聽for the "Christchurch Call" summit. This meeting brought together politicians and industry leaders in tech to fight the spread of online extremism. McGill's Chair of Media, Ethics and Communications Taylor Owen was invited to CBC's Front Burner to discuss the challenges in implementing efficient measures to combat online hate speech.聽
May聽15, 2019 | 香蕉视频's Chair of Media, Ethics and Communications Taylor Owen joined CBC's Andrew Nichols to talk about the challenges in tackling online extremism. The technical challenges faced by world leaders and companies are, he says, very intricate and nuanced and聽require careful scanning and moderating. Beyond these technical difficulties, there is also a political dimension to this issue that requires a societal discussion on how "hate speech regulations" should be implemented.聽
It鈥檚 call MI4 and it has a mission: solving humanity鈥檚 deadliest puzzles.
The McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity is dedicated to fighting the very real problem of growing resistance to antibiotics.
Dr. Don Sheppard, co-director and founder of MI4 spoke to CTV Montreal about the initiative and its goals to control and evolve around Superbugs.
CRA, short for International Conference on Robotics and Automation, is organized by the IEEE, the world鈥檚 largest engineering association. Specifically, the聽IEEE Robotics & Automation Society. ICRA 2019 will take place from May 20-24 at the Palais des congr猫s de Montr茅al, also known as the Montreal Convention Center, marking the first time that the conference 鈥 now in its 35th year 鈥 is being held in Canada.
Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a largely preventable complication of Type 1 diabetes and should be one that I rarely see. Today my colleagues from the Research Institute of the MUHC and I, along with the聽INSPQ, have published new findings in聽CMAJ Open, showing that over 25 per cent of children in Quebec diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes already have DKA. This is happening because the signs and symptoms of Type 1 diabetes are not recognized early enough. That number has been on the rise by two per cent per year since 2001, says Dr.
Caesarean deliveries, or C-sections, can either be planned or the result of complications during labour. Either way, experts say women should know what this type of birth entails. In April 2018, the Canadian Institute for Health Information found that more than聽103,000 C-sections were performed in Canada between 2016 and 2017, resulting in a rate of 28.2 per cent of all births in Canada. Experts say today, that rate is about 30 to 33 per cent.
Volkswagen, the company that alternates with Toyota for the title of聽world's biggest carmaker, shook up the global industry last week when it announced it would begin accepting orders for its new electric car, the ID.3. But just as skeptics have repeatedly underestimated the ability of the car business to adapt to climate change, there is early evidence of a potentially bigger transformation underway: the move to abandon car ownership altogether.
Two Canadian non-profits, OSMO and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), are partnering to launch the AI For Good Summer Lab program, an initiative that provides undergraduate women in STEM fields with exposure to training and networking opportunities in artificial intelligence.
Obesity is a global public health issue, yet it鈥檚 regarded by many as a personal failing. Negative attitudes abound. Chief among them: The mistaken belief that those with it are to blame for their weight; the dogged perception that if they only set their minds to it, they could shed it.
The Winnipeg School Division is asking parents to weigh in on a proposal that could see high school students in the division given聽a little more pillow time in聽the morning.聽In 2016, a team of researchers from 香蕉视频 published a report in the Journal of Sleep Research, suggesting that study participants aged 10 to 18 get an additional three minutes of sleep for every 10-minute delay in their school start time, bringing the school day more in line with their biological clocks.
All Canadian youth should have free access to contraceptives, according to a聽new position statement聽by the Canadian Paediatric Society.
IUDs, which the Canadian Paediatric Society recommends as the best birth control option for young people, are very effective but have a high upfront cost, said Dr. Giosi Di Meglio, an associate professor of pediatrics at 香蕉视频 and a co-author of the position statement.
鈥淲hen they鈥檙e having to pay for it out of pocket, they would use less reliable methods,鈥 Di Meglio explained.
Not everyone buys the idea that trigger warnings are innocuous. Jones and his colleagues鈥 research suggested that trigger warnings can cause people who don鈥檛 have PTSD鈥攐r who have not experienced any trauma relevant to the warning鈥攖o feel more vulnerable in the future. A聽study聽published earlier this year also noted that subjects who saw trigger warnings experienced a drop in their mood.