“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so you have to say something that’s worthwhile rather than just recycling the usual liberal clichés,” he said. “As for that first sentence, I chose it deliberately. This whole experience has been deeply humbling. I see it as a gift of acceptance, part of the work in progress of becoming a Canadian.” - Payam Akhavan

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Published on: 14 Sep 2017

Op-ed bySébastien Jodoin, assistant professor in the Faculty of LawandHamish van der Ven,assistant professor in the School of Environment and the Department of Political Science at .

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Published on: 14 Sep 2017

Karl Moore on Bombardier-Boeing dispute.

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Published on: 13 Sep 2017

Because of its large collecting area, wide observational bandwidth and cylindrical design, CHIME can see some thousand times more sky at any given moment, Victoria Kaspi, an astrophysicist and director of ’s Space Institute in Montreal, told me. “Once CHIME is fully operational, it can do this 24/7, whereas other telescopes have many different observing programs,” said Kaspi.

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Published on: 12 Sep 2017

The discovery was made using radio telescopes atthe Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) in the Netherlands.ZiggyPleunis, co-author of the findings published inThe Astrophysical Journal Letters, who is now a PhD student atUniversity, told CBC News.

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Published on: 11 Sep 2017

The radio telescope is a joint project of scientists from Canadian universities including the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, University and the National Research Council of Canada. The large structure is nestled in the mountains of B.C. at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory near Penticton.

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Published on: 8 Sep 2017

"New scientific developments may explain your friend's irritating British accent she picked up after studying abroad in London. linguist Morgan Sonderegger and colleagues Max Bane and Peter Graff publisheda new studyin the journalLanguagethat examines how accents can change in a group of people living in a confined environment over three months."

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Published on: 7 Sep 2017

It's all been choreographed by Jim Wallman and Prof Rex Brynen, of , in Montreal, who has also done these kind of games with the US military. Prof Brynen says in recent years there's been a "major resurgence of war gaming as a serious analytical and training tool in both the US and UK".

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Published on: 7 Sep 2017

Science and Museums

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The details:Partnering with the Redpath Museum in Montreal, students explore natural history collections, and learn how they are created, maintained and used in scientific research.

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Published on: 6 Sep 2017

Article by Jacob T. Levy

"We can take seriously the communal goods of democratic government without seeking to symbolically collapse our subnational and transnational connections and interdependences—through the market as well as through civil society—into a hypertrophied sense of the importance of political membership and provision."

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Published on: 6 Sep 2017

"In America’s collective imagination, Canada is not associated with slavery. That perception will be challenged at Harvard University this fall, where professor Charmaine Nelson will be teaching about the black diaspora as theWilliam Lyon Mackenzie King Chair for Canadian Studies."

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Published on: 5 Sep 2017

As a child growing up in and out ofthe Ontario foster care system, Arisha Khan never thought she'd attend a university. "As a former youth in care I wouldn't think that I have the capacity to go to ," she told CBC'sDaybreak. But that's just what she did. Now going into her fourth year in 's International Development and Social Entrepreneurship program, Khan had to overcome a lot to get to where she is.

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Published on: 5 Sep 2017

"I talked to Anthony Ricciardi, Professor of Invasion Ecology at , in Montreal. Ricciardi, a biologist, grew up on the banks of Lake Saint-Louis, which bulges out from the St. Lawrence River—the route through which the mussels metastasized to the Great Lakes."

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Published on: 5 Sep 2017

"A team of five undergraduate researchers at analyzed over 10,000 reviews in theNew York Times Book Review, tracking metrics including the gender of authors whose books were reviewed, the gender of review writers, the reviewed book's genre and themes, and the most frequently appearing words in reviews. The researchers, all women, are "ardently feminist," says Rosie Long Decter, a team member who just graduated from with a degree in cultural and political studies."

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Published on: 30 Aug 2017

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