The demonstration, by a team of McGill researchers, is paving the way for future convoys of autonomous airborne and land-based machines that could some day be deployed in remote locations to monitor, transport or assist in search and rescue without the need for constant human supervision.
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Published on: 5 May 2017
鈥淎brupt and expensive鈥� is a matter of perspective, says Catherine Potvin, a professor at 香蕉视频 and the Canada Research Chair in Climate Change Mitigation and Tropical Forests. She emphasizes that Canada is a nation of believers.
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Published on: 4 May 2017
Chris Barrington-Leigh, a professor at 香蕉视频鈥檚 School of Environment, has done an analysis of the potential for growth in renewable energy production in Canada, said 2015 was a record year for new installations of renewable energy around the world. He called Canada鈥檚 renewable growth 鈥渁 good start鈥� but said the aim is to get to 100 per cent.
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Published on: 3 May 2017
Monday聽marks the beginning of the Canadian Mental Health Association鈥檚 Mental Health Week. This is an opportune moment to raise awareness of problems faced by people with mental illness.
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Published on: 2 May 2017
Priests of Prosperity is an analytical study of the evolution of central banking in postcommunist countries, exploring the unsung revolutionary campaign to move from command-economy cash cows into Western-style monetary guardians. This book argues that a powerful transnational central banking community concentrated in Western Europe and North America integrated postcommunist bankers to shape their ideas about the role of central banks and to help them develop modern tools of banking.
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Published on: 2 May 2017
鈥淭he aim is not placement,鈥� says Marie-Jos茅 Beaudin, executive director of the Soutar Career Centre at 香蕉视频鈥檚 Desautels Faculty of Management. Instead, the goal is to equip students with career-long skills in networking. 鈥淵our career can鈥檛 evolve in a silo,鈥� she says. 鈥淵ou need to have champions who support that and mentors can be fantastic.鈥�
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Published on: 28 Apr 2017
"It's the blind leading the blind," said Henry Mintzberg, a management expert at 香蕉视频. "You need to get people who can think for themselves but also have a deep understanding of the issues. Drop this silly idea that government can be run like a business."
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Published on: 28 Apr 2017
A timely guide to distinguishing fact from fiction in the era of 鈥渇ake news鈥� was announced Monday as the winner of the $30,000 National Business Book Award. Neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin (professor emeritus at 香蕉视频) said he was prompted to write 鈥淎 Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age鈥� (Allen Lane Canada) as a response to the 鈥淏alkanization of the news over the last 15 years.鈥�
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Published on: 25 Apr 2017
McGill immunology PhD student Caitlin Schneider, who came to study in Montreal from Texas, said she brought her Canadian friends with her as a sign of solidarity against cuts to environmental protections in the United States as well as statements made by the Trump administration that were skeptical of climate change.
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Published on: 25 Apr 2017
McGill has been recognized as one of Montreal鈥檚 top employers.
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Published on: 21 Apr 2017
The fathers of confederation left cities and Indigenous voices on the outside looking in. It鈥檚 long past time to change that relationship.
Op-ed by聽Fraser Harland and Mark Dance,聽law students at 香蕉视频. The next instalment of their Canada 150 series will look at the future of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the possibility of transforming Canada鈥檚 judicial institutions.
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Published on: 20 Apr 2017
With the help of an Alberta Medical Association grant, MacEachern has teamed up with researchers at 香蕉视频 to promote their free app,聽Jooay. It connects families with nearby聽accessible leisure activities 鈥� including sports and arts programs as well as camps聽in an effort to improve health and social well-being.
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Published on: 19 Apr 2017
Researchers at 香蕉视频 have been studying the combustion capabilities of metal for more than a decade. Last week, they聽launched an experiment into space to gain further聽insight to this yet untapped potential.聽The experiment was designed to help scientists better understand how the metal particles react in weightlessness.
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Published on: 18 Apr 2017
Five authors have made the 2017 CBC Short Story Prize shortlist. Among the finalists are: "The Duolect" by Krzystof Pelc (Professor in the Dept. of Political Science at McGill) and "The Peninsula of Happiness" by Kasia Juno (PhD student in the Dept. of English at McGill).
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Published on: 13 Apr 2017
Donner Prize finalists [Award for the Best Public Policy Book by a Canadian] include "L'integration des services en sante: Une approche populationnelle" by Yves Couturier, Lucie Bonin and Louise Belzile (Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal) and "Priests of Prosperity: How Central Bankers Transformed the Postcommunist World" by [McGill political science professor] Juliet Johnson (Cornell University Press). Rounding out the short list are "A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age" by Daniel J.
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Published on: 12 Apr 2017
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