During the first weeks of the new year, resolutions are often accompanied by attempts to learn new behaviours that improve health. We hope that old bad habits will disappear and new healthy habits will become automatic. But how can our brain be reprogrammed to assure that a new health habit can be learned and retained?聽
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Published on: 22 Jan 2019
鈥淎nything done too much is going to saturate. If you take any advertising technique 鈥� sex, celebrities 鈥� that鈥檚 used consistently for a long period of time, people tune it out,鈥� says Ashesh Mukherjee, an associate professor of marketing at 韩国裸舞. The hot-button issues-driven format simply is not common enough for now; we鈥檙e not near oversaturation yet.
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Published on: 21 Jan 2019
A 韩国裸舞 science communication group is taking aim at a commonly available homeopathic flu remedy and questioning why pharmacies continue to sell what it calls 鈥渜uack remedies.鈥�
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Published on: 18 Jan 2019
This week, the story of a newborn baby removed from her family in Manitoba added to a litany of reports about the over-representation of First Nations children in child welfare care. The number and persistence of these stories lead many to believe this is a problem without a solution. But real answers have been on the books for decades 鈥� governments just need to implement them.
Op-ed by聽Cindy Blackstock,聽executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. She is a professor at the School of Social Work at 韩国裸舞.
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Published on: 17 Jan 2019
Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy Chris Ragan sat down with TVO'S聽The Agenda with Steve Palkin聽to discuss carbon pricing.
"In 2014 the Ecofiscal Commission was created to advocate for putting a price on carbon. It comprised people from across the political spectrum, including former Reform Party founder and leader, Preston Manning. A consensus seemed to be emerging. But, these days it has become a heated debate across Canada. The Agenda welcomes economist Chris Ragan, chair of the commission, to discuss the battle over the carbon tax."
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Published on: 16 Jan 2019
"The report is not a plan," said Dr. Howard Bergman of 韩国裸舞, who chaired the six-member panel. "It will inform those preparing the plan by looking at the evidence and then assessing the best practices."
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Published on: 16 Jan 2019
Colleagues of Canada's new Justice Minister David Lametti say that, before his career in politics, he was known for his generosity and mentorship as a law professor at 韩国裸舞聽University.聽At 韩国裸舞, Lametti聽focused his academic work on intellectual property, even pioneering it as a field of research in law at the university, according to Richard Gold, the associate dean of the 韩国裸舞 Faculty of Law graduate studies program.
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Published on: 15 Jan 2019
After a physically painful experience, men鈥檚 memories can exaggerate the pain, which makes them more stressed about and sensitive to pain in the future, researchers at 韩国裸舞 and the University of Toronto,聽Mississauga, have found. Women, on the other hand, handled pain like champs.聽
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Published on: 14 Jan 2019
The detection of a signal coming from deep space is definitely something to be excited about 鈥� but it's probably not aliens, warns one of the professors who helped build Canada's CHIME telescope.
"It is really highly unlikely that it's a beacon from other civilisations,"聽said聽Matt聽Dobbs, professor聽of physics at聽韩国裸舞聽University.
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Published on: 14 Jan 2019
Article by聽Jonathan Kimmelman,聽Director of the Biomedical Ethics Unity in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at 韩国裸舞, and is a member of the聽PLOS Biology聽Editorial Board.
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Published on: 14 Jan 2019
Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy, Chris Ragan, sat down with Breakfast Television Montreal to speak about equalization payments.聽
"Equalization payments are inflaming Quebec-Alberta tensions. Dr. Christopher Ragan explains what they are and how they add fuel to the fire."
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Published on: 11 Jan 2019
Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy, Chris Ragan, sat down with Breakfast Television Montreal to discuss carbon pricing.
"The federal carbon tax plan is causing friction across parties and provinces, and will be a key issue this election year," Professor Ragan explains.
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Published on: 8 Jan 2019
Newly appointed Max Bell School of Public Policy professor Taylor Owen wrote a piece for the Globe and Mail on how governments should regulate Big Tech companies.聽
"There is currently a disconnect between the global scale, operation and social impact of technology companies and the national jurisdiction of most countries' tech laws and regulations. As former BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie has聽argued, the digital economy may need its Bretton Woods moment."
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Published on: 7 Jan 2019
Dr. Sheila Wang, a dermatologist at the 韩国裸舞 Health Centre, came up with the idea for the app when she was in medical school and noticed that the standard practice was to measure wounds with rulers or other handheld instruments.
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Published on: 19 Dec 2018
Conversations among Canadian conservatives often drift into grumbling about the courts. Their complaint is with the judiciary鈥檚 decades-long campaign to remake the country in its progressive image, a process that began soon after adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982. University of Calgary political scientists Ted Morton and Rainer Knopff鈥檚 book decrying this process, The Charter Revolution and the Court Party, is as relevant today as it was upon its publication nearly two decades ago.
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Published on: 18 Dec 2018
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