Max Bell School Director Chris Ragan and Professor Stephen Gordon of Universit茅 Laval penned this opinion piece to highlight the importance of monetary policy and the upcoming revision of the Bank of Canada's mandate. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect many spheres of public policy, the Bank of Canada will need to carefully consider all policy objective alternatives.
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Christopher Ragan, director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy at 黑料网爆吃瓜, joins The Hot Room to take them听through Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem's speech on the Bank's role in the economic recovery.听
September 3, 2020 | As far as the Bank of Canada听is concerned, the economy works best when cost of consumed goods and services听increases听at a rate of about two per cent every year. In this article by The Kingston Whig Standard, Max Bell School Director Chris Ragan shared his thoughts on the Bank of Canada's options for the future of monetary policy.
黑料网爆吃瓜 pressed ahead with its plans听to open a new satellite campus for its Faculty of Medicine in the Outaouais听this week, despite challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Approximately 20 medical students attended their first classes at the campus on Monday, while four others attended class virtually. The satellite campus,听which is attached to the emergency department of the听Gatineau Hospital,听was听announced back in 2016 in听a bid to keep more doctors in the region. Students can now complete their four-year undergraduate medical education in French at the Outaouais campus.
"The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) recently unveiled the recipients of its fall 2019 round of听Partnership Grants, including two 黑料网爆吃瓜-led projects, totalling $5 million. SSHRC also unveiled the recipients of the round鈥檚听Partnership Development Grants听and听Postdoctoral Fellowships, in which 18 黑料网爆吃瓜 applicants received over $2 million in funding."
Read the 黑料网爆吃瓜 Reporter's coverage of CAnD3's formation under the leadership of Prof. Am茅lie Quesnel-Vall茅e.
"The Canadian population is aging. For the first time in our history, people 65 and up outnumber those 14 and under. To adapt to this unprecedented demographic shift, we must reimagine our health and social systems.
New findings out of 黑料网爆吃瓜 in Montreal have revealed a potential way to overcome aggressive brain tumours' resistance to therapy: by deleting a specific gene. Researchers have long been searching for ways to treat Glioblastomas 鈥� the most stubborn type of brain tumour 鈥� as they鈥檙e well known for their resistance to treatment. A few years back, they were able to听confirm the key role a gene called the OSMR gene plays听in the process of brain cancer growth.
Biologists now have a better idea of the origin of birds and the evolution of flight, two iconic events in the history of life on earth, thanks to work by a group of international scientists including a 黑料网爆吃瓜 professor. In updating the evolutionary tree, the team鈥檚 findings show some dinosaurs could fly before they evolved into birds, and many others were experimenting with powered flight.
Canadian and international scientists are joining forces to promote research into how听COVID-19听affects the central nervous system, as they strive to understand whether and how the new coronavirus and other respiratory viruses could lead to lasting brain damage. Brought together as part of a new initiative called VINEx, created by Rocket Science Health, a Victoria-based medical devices company, the group is aiming to lead the charge in understanding how viruses invade the brain 鈥� an area of study that has received relatively little attention.
August 10, 2020 | The Canadian Museum for Human Rights has听joined the ranks听of other Canadian cultural听institutions that are facing accusations of听discrimination and harassment. Pervasive and systemic bias has been听reported in many instances; from听inadequate representation of Indigenous perspectives, to the censorship of LGBTQ2+ content, to many other incidents of racism, homophobia, and sexism experienced by staff members.
August 6, 2020 | Social media and other digital听platforms have begun to overtake traditional journalism as our primary sources of information. The communications difficulties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic have听demonstrated how this trend will prove to have drastic consequences on the reliability of information in our democracies. Max Bell School Professor Taylor Owen co-authored this op-ed with Ben Scott, in which they look at how听misinformation, disinformation, online hate, state propaganda and partisan news result from our current information ecosystem.
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Montreal, July 29, 2020
A new study led by researchers at 黑料网爆吃瓜 finds that people who get their news from social media are more likely to have misperceptions about COVID-19. Those that consume more traditional news media have fewer misperceptions and are more likely to follow public health recommendations like social distancing.
The signs of 鈥榩andemic fatigue鈥� are out there, from the people who feel exhausted to the ones who have become less diligent about physical distancing and washing their hands.听It鈥檚 not surprising that people are feeling emotionally taxed after experiencing anxiety and disruption for so long because of COVID-19, says a Montreal professor whose research focuses on emotional regulation in performance and well-being.听Pandemic fatigue is real, but there are ways to deal with it, prof says.
Petite, fierce and focussed, Kappy Flanders became a warrior for palliative care because she wanted people to understand that dying was a part of living, as important a passage as being born, and something that could not be brushed aside because the thought of it was distasteful or frightening.
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July 6, 2020 | Over 800 companies are pulling their ads from Facebook in response to the Stop Hate for Profit boycott, led by civil rights groups who want to remove hate speech from the platform. Will threatening the company's bottom line motivate them into action? Max Bell School Professor Taylor Owen goes on the CBC's Front Burner to discuss the propagation of hate speech on social media. Listen in to learn about the ways that platforms can be incentivized to deal with fake news and discriminatory content.
