Mercury decline in seabirds due to diet, not emission controls

Published: 24 November 2017

For 47 years, biologists have plucked eggs from seabird nests along the British Columbia coast. Many of the eggs were collected from remote rocky islands surrounded by some of the world’s roughest...

L'igname pourpre, légume "Pantone" de l'année

Published: 25 January 2018

Puissant influenceur des tendances en matière de décoration, l'Institut Pantone dictera-t-il maintenant le contenu de notre assiette? La couleur 2018 - l'ultraviolet - est aussi celle de l'igname...

Québec's legal maple syrup cartel dictates prices for Vermont maple producers

Published: 12 March 2018

“The system that's in place, the supply management system, is good for Québec producers and U.S. producers because it guarantees good prices and that allowed U.S. producers to actually expand...

Summer Camp hopes to recruit young Indigenous youth to health care jobs

Published: 25 July 2018

Teens from Indigenous communities across Canada are taking part in a summer camp at . The university wants to inspire them to consider careers in Health Science – and it’s taking a unique...

Highway 20 overpass construction to begin May 8

Published: 2 May 2017

Updated May 5, 2017 The Quebec Ministry of Transport has confirmed the resumption of the Macdonald Campus Hwy 20 overpass renovation project on May 8 until August 15.

How fear alone can cause animal extinction

Published: 27 July 2017

“It has been something of a mystery why predators are so important in animal extinctions,” says Kyle Elliott, an assistant professor in ’s Dept. of Natural Resource Sciences and...

Le goût des vins de Californie sera affecté par les incendies

Published: 17 October 2017

Après plus d’une semaine de brasiers, les flammes continuent de dévorer les vallées de Napa et Sonoma, sur la côte nord de la Californie, d’où sont issus les meilleurs crus américains. Plusieurs...

More than $59 million awarded by the CFI and the Government of Quebec to six research projects

Published: 19 January 2018

New labs and equipment through the CFI’s Innovation Fund will help six transformative research projects to collaborate, innovate and train the next generation of scientists for the jobs of...

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