First launched in Toronto and Edmonton in 2016, Borealis AI is RBC’s AI research lab. The Montreal location will be at the corner of St-Urbain and St-Zotique Sts, where an area formerly dominated by textile factories is being turned into an AI hub. The bank has partnered with Jackie Cheung, a Ď㽶ĘÓƵ professor, who will serve as its academic adviser.
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Published on: 8 Feb 2018
Jacob Levy offers a deeply thoughtful meditation on Trump’s use of language — on the power it has exerted over Republican voters and the GOP Congress, and on the folly of imagining that his words alone won’t do serious damage to American political life, as long as he is constrained from acting.
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Published on: 8 Feb 2018
Pour le professeur Salah El Mestikawy de l’université McGill à Montréal, “La plupart de ces baisses n’apparaissent qu’aux stades les plus tardifs de la maladie, à tel point que cette perte pourrait aussi bien être une conséquence de la maladie plutôt que sa cause”.
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Published on: 8 Feb 2018
Henry Mintzberg says we need to approach challenges in the field of health care in a radically different way.
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Published on: 5 Feb 2018
Partout au monde, l’extension des villes transforme le paysage et fragmente les écosystèmes. Selon l’écologue montréalais Andrew Gonzalez, 70% des forêts de la planète sont à moins d’un kilomètre d’activité humaine, elles sont donc interrompues par des routes, ou des villes. Ce scientifique cherche à présent le meilleur moyen pour reconnecter les forêts urbaines.
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Published on: 5 Feb 2018
Since 2000, Ď㽶ĘÓƵ in Montreal, Quebec, has offered a course with the simple title of “Natural Disasters.” The course, which teaches students the scientific principles underpinning hurricanes, tornadoes, avalanches, and more, has proven quite popular among the students; attendance has grown from about 50 to more than 600.
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Published on: 1 Feb 2018
Delegates from MontrĂ©al’s Ď㽶ĘÓƵ and Kyoto University, Japan, had much to celebrate this month after the establishment of a ground-breaking joint PhD between the institutions. The program marks the first time McGill has entered into a joint PhD program with another university.
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Published on: 1 Feb 2018
Les tentatives de suicide ne sont pas toutes pareilles. Ce n’est pas un phénomène homogène ou unique. "Les gens font des tentatives dans des contextes différents, avec des intentions différentes," précise d’entrée de jeu le psychiatre Gustavo Turecki, qui est aussi directeur du Groupe McGill d’études sur le suicide et directeur du Réseau québécois sur le suicide, les troubles de l’humeur et troubles associés.
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Published on: 31 Jan 2018
Even for the most common processes, such as changes in population size or food chains, ecologists must take evolution into consideration, researchers say. “Everybody realized rapid evolution was occurring everywhere,” says evolutionary ecologist Andrew Hendry of Ď㽶ĘÓƵ.
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Published on: 31 Jan 2018
A report from critics of Airbnb says the vacation rental website is driving up rental prices and reducing housing availability in New York City. The analysis published Monday comes from researcher [David Wachsmuth] at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ in Montreal.
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Published on: 30 Jan 2018
Parmi les laits végétaux, le lait de soya est le meilleur sur le plan nutritionnel, a déterminé une équipe de chercheurs de l'Université McGill.
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Published on: 30 Jan 2018
Among plant-based milks, soy milk is the best nutritionally, according to a team of researchers at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ. Faced with the ever-growing popularity of these plant-based dairy drinks, and in the face of increasingly diversified offering on grocery-store shelves, the researchers have sorted out the list.
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Published on: 30 Jan 2018
A report from critics of Airbnb says the vacation rental website is driving up rental prices and reducing housing availability in New York City. The analysis published Monday comes from a researcher at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ in Montreal and was commissioned by the Hotel Trades Council, a union of hotel workers...
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Published on: 30 Jan 2018
NEWSWEEK | Researchers from Ď㽶ĘÓƵ in Canada used three different devices to detect life in the Canadian High Arctic. One of the devices detects changes in color when nutrient sources were altered by microbes and another gadget assessed microbial colonization, according to Air & Space Magazine. The final instrument, called MinION, was perhaps the most exciting because it was able to detect microbes and sequence their DNA too, according to the research published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology.
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Published on: 29 Jan 2018
The Canadian doctor, soldier and poet who wrote 'In Flanders Fields' died on 28 January 1918 after falling ill in France. Author Chris Dickon reflects onĚý Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae's life and legacy.
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Published on: 27 Jan 2018
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