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MONTREAL GAZETTE | McCord Museum will double in size and stay at its current site

webfull — Wed, 01 May 2019 14:44:33 +0000

Months of speculation ended when the McCord Museum announced Tuesday that its new home will be built on the site of its current home on Sherbrooke and Victoria Sts. in the heart of Montreal’s Golden Square Mile. As McCord president and chief executive officer Suzanne Sauvage enthused about the museum’s ideal location, halfway between the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Musée d’art contemporain, close to downtown universities, near public transit, the soon-to-be-re-imagined �� College artery and the �� station of the city’s future light-rail system, she was philosophical.

Published: 1 May 2019

Montreal and �� Become Blue Communities

webfull — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 14:38:09 +0000

The Ville de Montréal and �� today received Blue Community certification on the occasion of World Water Day. To obtain this certification, they have undertaken to recognize water and sanitation as human rights, to promote publicly managed water services and to ban or phase out the sale of bottled water in their buildings and at their events. Hence Montreal has joined some forty Blue Communities worldwide, including major cities like Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Victoria. For its part, �� has become the fourth university in the world to obtain this certification.

Published: 22 March 2019

Do we trust people who speak with an accent?

webfull — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:16:16 +0000

You are in a strange neighbourhood, your cell phone’s dead, and you desperately need to find the closest garage. A couple of people on the street chime in, each sending you in opposite directions. One person sounds like a local and speaks in a nonchalant manner, while the other uses a loud, confident voice but speaks with a strong accent. Who are you going to trust?

Published: 19 September 2018

Bystanders in cyberbullying

webfull — Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:29:02 +0000

Your child is in elementary school and is begging you to buy them a cell phone, an iPod and iPad. Anything, as long as they can communicate with their friends, either by texting or through social media. As a parent, you’re worried about cyberbullying. Indeed, up to 30% of children and adolescents admit to cyberbullying others, while 25% of students report being victimized on electronic platforms. You rationalize that your child has lots of friends and that they will stand up for them in a bullying situation. Do they? What is the role of the bystander/friend during a bullying incident?

Published: 25 July 2018

Global project to reduce health inequalities in cities around the world

webfull — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:02:58 +0000

A major new research partnership has been launched to explore ways of reducing health inequalities in cities around the world.

Published: 6 February 2018

We’re not addicted to smartphones, we’re addicted to social interaction

webfull — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 16:56:53 +0000

We all know people who, seemingly incapable of living without the bright screen of their phone for more than a few minutes, are constantly texting and checking out what friends are up to on social media.

These are examples of what many consider to be the antisocial behaviour brought on by smartphone addiction, a phenomenon that has garnered media attention in the past few months and led investors and consumers to demand that tech giants address this problem.

But what if we were looking at things the wrong way? Could smartphone addiction be hyper-social, not anti-social?

Published: 6 February 2018

The high cost of short-term rentals in New York City

webfull — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:15:15 +0000

A new report from �� Urban Planning professor David Wachsmuth and his team provides an analysis of Airbnb activity in New York City and the surrounding region in the last three years (September 2014 - August 2017). Relying on new methodologies to analyze big data, here are some of the findings:

Published: 30 January 2018

American cities with large Hispanic populations are less likely to police the police

webfull — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:53:03 +0000

How individual police forces treat those that they suspect of being illegal immigrants varies greatly from one city to the next in the U.S. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, the police department has a policy that states clearly, “Officers shall not stop, question, detain or arrest any person on the ground that they may be undocumented and deportable foreign nationals.” But this is unusual. Local police departments across the U.S. have become increasingly involved in enforcing federal immigration laws since the mid-1990s.

Published: 14 December 2017

Do birdsong and human speech share biological roots?

webfull — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:05:29 +0000

Do songbirds and humans have common biological hardwiring that shapes how they produce and perceive sounds?

Scientists who study birdsong have been intrigued for some time by the possibility that human speech and music may be rooted in biological processes shared across a variety of animals. Now, research by �� biologists provides new evidence to support this idea.

Published: 22 November 2017

Illustrious Chinese architect invests in future of education: landmark $12-million gift to transform teaching and research, build stronger academic ties to China

webfull — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:58:14 +0000

Published: 26 September 2017

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