April聽8, 2019 | Social media has been deeply ingrained in our daily lives and with the current spread of hate and misinformation, governments have been slow to regulate social media companies. Taylor Owen from McGill Univeristy,聽speaks with聽Global National鈥檚 Dawna Friesen聽on what can and should be done to stop the spread these聽false information and hate online.
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Published on: 10 Apr 2019
"The main purpose of Bill 21 is to 鈥減rotect our identity,鈥� says Premier Fran莽ois Legault. But whose identity is being protected and what kind of society will this bill promote?
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Published on: 9 Apr 2019
Chris Ragan, an economist at 香蕉视频, speaks with the Financial Post's Larysa Harapyn about carbon pricing in Canada.聽
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Published on: 8 Apr 2019
April聽1, 2019 |聽Chris Ragan, Director of Max Bell School of Public Policy, joined CBC News Power and Politics, to discuss聽the federal carbon tax.聽"Carbon pricing is the lowest-cost method that we can use to combat climate change" argues Chris Ragan.
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Published on: 5 Apr 2019
March聽29, 2019 | "Meeting Canada鈥檚 climate targets in a way that is best for our economic prosperity requires broad policy that creates consistent incentives across all emissions in the economy, from individual households and small businesses to heavy industry. Output-based pricing must be a key part of that mix if Canada is to strike the right balance between pricing emissions and protecting competitiveness," says Chris Ragan, chair of聽Canada's Ecofiscal Commission and director of Max Bell School of Public Policy.聽
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Published on: 5 Apr 2019
March聽18, 2019 |聽Prior聽to聽Canada鈥檚 next election,聽Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers his fourth and final budget. After surveying over聽a dozen economists to take stock of the government鈥檚 record on economic policy, Bloomberg has highlighted some key aspects in the policy.聽The question is 鈥渢o what extent is Canada a place where you can come in and do reasonably risky big natural resource related projects,鈥� said Chris Ragan, director of 香蕉视频鈥檚 Max Bell School of Public Policy. 鈥淭he answer is increasingly 鈥榙on鈥檛 come here.鈥欌��
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Published on: 5 Apr 2019
McGill student teacher Chama Laassassy, who supervised B茅langer and Dionne's project, planted the seed about excessive waste at McDonald's.
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Published on: 5 Apr 2019
March聽19, 2019 | Chris Ragan, Director of the Max Bell School, shares his thoughts with聽Neil Macdonald, a columnist at CBC Opinion, regarding government debt and the upcoming "fiscal squeeze" as the Canadian population ages. "The Trudeau government's spending has been scattershot and political, rather than strategic; reversing Stepen Harper's decision to raise the retirement age was foolish" says Chris Ragan.
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Published on: 4 Apr 2019
Prof. Robert Leckey, the dean of 香蕉视频's faculty of law, notes the draft legislation, Bill 21, extends聽beyond聽the recommendations laid out by聽the 2010 Bouchard-Taylor report, which advised applying the ban to public workers who hold "coercive" state power.
"If the concern was that people would be afraid of bias when being disciplined by a state officer, it's way overbroad," said Leckey.
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Published on: 4 Apr 2019
April聽1, 2019 | Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy, Christopher Ragan, sat down with Don Martin on Power Play聽to speak about the Federal Carbon Tax.
"We respond to price changes, but we don't necessarily respond overnight," said Chris Ragan about the carbon tax. "This is a policy and a problem that we need solve over several decades, and this is just the beginning."
Interview starts around 08:40 minute mark.聽
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Published on: 4 Apr 2019
The聽Quebec government鈥檚 new secularism bill聽is 鈥渃lear discrimination,鈥� an 鈥渦nreasonable restriction,鈥� and an unneeded answer to a problem that doesn鈥檛 exist.
That鈥檚 what Charles Taylor, one of the co-authors of Quebec鈥檚 2008 report on reasonable accommodation, said Tuesday during a panel discussion organized by the McGill Muslim Law Students鈥� Association.
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Published on: 3 Apr 2019
Another example is the聽鈥渄odgy and problematic鈥� use of AI for facial recognition in job interviews, said Gabriella Coleman, a McGill professor who holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy.聽The technology claims to assess candidates鈥� facial expressions to detect if they鈥檙e being honest聽and to see if they have the right personality for the job.
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Published on: 2 Apr 2019
Robert Leckey, dean of 香蕉视频's law school, said Legault's compromise is quite limited. Current teachers, according to the bill, can keep their symbols "as long as they exercise the same function within the same school board."
Leckey said that is "unpleasantly narrow. You can't be promoted or change school boards and wear a religious symbol." Additionally, he said, the sweep of people captured by the bill goes much further than originally anticipated.
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Published on: 29 Mar 2019
Robert Sorge was studying pain in mice in 2009, but he was the one who ended up with a headache.聽At 香蕉视频 in Montreal, Canada, Sorge was investigating how animals develop an extreme sensitivity to touch. To test for this response, Sorge poked the paws of mice using fine hairs, ones that wouldn鈥檛 ordinarily bother them. The males behaved as the scientific literature said they would: they yanked their paws back from even the finest of threads.
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Published on: 28 Mar 2019
Backed by the Canadian government, Dr. Hinton, a computer science professor at the University of Toronto, organized a new research community with several academics who also tackled the concept. They included Yann LeCun, a professor at New York University, and Yoshua Bengio at the University of Montreal.
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Published on: 27 Mar 2019
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