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We are pleased to announce that Associate Dean (Academic) Tina Piper has been appointed Acting Dean for the Faculty of Law, following the appointment of Justice Robert Leckey to the Superior Court of Quebec. Her appointment, effective immediately, was announced by Provost and Executive Vice-President (Academic) Christopher Manfredi on 28 January 2025.ÌýÌýÌý

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Published on: 30 Jan 2025

McCall MacBain Scholar (2023), Mohit Kumar, is an M.A.ÌýEducational Leadership student in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education (DISE). He is working to devise curricula for Eklavyas (have-nots), for primary school students which aims to catalyze quality education and larger behavioral changes regarding learning, educational awareness, and opportunities.

Published on: 30 Jan 2025

Feb. 4 is , a chance to raise awareness about the second-leading cause of death globally.ÌýÌý

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Published on: 30 Jan 2025

January 29, 2025 | Professor Vincent Rigby and Eugene Lang spoke about Canada's defence and over the past decade, noting that the government has struggled to keep up with significant global changes. Together, they discuss how geopolitical tensions, particularly with China, Russia, and the United States, have evolved rapidly and Canada's response has been slow.

Classified as: Vincent Rigby
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Published on: 30 Jan 2025

On Thursday, Quebec’s Immigration Minister, Jean-François Roberge, is expected to introduce a bill on the integration of immigrants.

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Published on: 30 Jan 2025

On December 2024, Valérine Pinel joined the Centre Crépeau’s leadership team as assistant director. Since February 2024, Valérine has been with the Centre as a Researcher-Project Coordinator, delivering exceptional work across various projects. Notably, her contribution as the project coordinator for the Private Law Dictionary and Bilingual Lexicons, characterized by her meticulous approach and high research standards, has been instrumental in enriching this key project, which lies at the heart of the Crépeau Centre.

Published on: 30 Jan 2025

Changes at the top of an organization can have a ripple effect through its ranks—and Justin Trudeau’s resignation as leader of the Liberal Party is a case in point. An organization’s culture starts at the top, and the personality of its leader influences how decisions are made and how to get ahead, says Associate Professor Jean-Nicolas Reyt in an interview with Canadian HR Reporter.

Classified as: Jean-Nicolas Reyt, Organizational Behaviour (T)
Published on: 29 Jan 2025

Christmas lights that glow softly through long winter nights are part of what makes the holiday season so atmospheric—but they can add to the ambiance any time of year. Some shopping districts are leaving their lights up for exactly that reason.

Classified as: Bensadoun School of Retail Management, Charles de Brabant
Published on: 29 Jan 2025

Founded by Â鶹Çø Desautels Associate Professor Anisha Ghosh, with over $25 million in funding, CCM Biosciences is developing novel therapeutics in longevity. Recently, the company announced that it has developed an enzyme activator that can restore activity to youthful levels. This breakthrough has the potential to lead to drug development candidates for age-related disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease.

Classified as: Anisha Ghosh, Finance (T)
Published on: 29 Jan 2025

When Alberta commissioned a report on withdrawing from the Canada Pension Plan, the resulting document claimed the province was entitled to $334 billion more than half of the plan’s total assets. However, the method used to calculate that share is deeply flawed. If applied to other provinces, the combined total of their share would exceed the plan’s actual assets.

Classified as: Sebastien Betermier, Finance (T)
Published on: 29 Jan 2025

In a Financial Times piece on the UK’s interest in replicating Canada’s pension system, Associate Professor Sebastien Betermier highlights concerns about the growing politicization of Canada’s pension funds. He notes that the success of the Maple 8 model relies on maintaining independence from government interference. Recent political actions such as Alberta’s abrupt overhaul of its pension board raise doubts about whether the model can sustain its advantages.

Classified as: Desautels Faculty of Management, Sebastien Betermier, Finance (T)
Published on: 29 Jan 2025

A new episode of the Ag Policy Connection podcast, a collaboration between RealAgriculture and the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, featuresÌýÂ鶹Çø economist and agronomist Pascal Thériault, Director of the Farm Management and Technology Program, in an expert panel discussing the economics driving land use change.

The episode dives into the economics driving land use decisions by farmers and landowners, focusing on the impact of private and public sustainability programs and other market incentives.

Classified as: Pascal Thériault
Published on: 29 Jan 2025

American companies that employ hundreds of Quebec workers could suffer from a call for a boycott as suggested on certain social media, reportsÌýÌýand others.

Classified as: Pascal Thériault
Published on: 29 Jan 2025

A Â鶹Çø researcher has discovered that Guiengola, a 15th century Zapotec site in southern Oaxaca, Mexico, which had been thought to be simply a fortress where soldiers were garrisoned, was in fact a sprawling, fortified city. It covered 360 hectares, with over 1,100 buildings, four kilometres of walls, a network of internal roads and a clearly organized urban layout with temples and communal spaces such as ballcourts, and the elites and commoners lived in separate neighbourhoods.

Classified as: Department of Anthropology, pedro ramon cellis, Banting Postdoctoral researcher
Published on: 29 Jan 2025

iGEM Â鶹Çø is recruiting! Join an interdisciplinary team of undergraduate students to develop a synthetic biology project over the course of a year. We spend the winter semester on design, planning wet lab/dry lab projects, as well as related initiatives under our education, media, outreach, entrepreneurship, and finance subteams. The summer is then dedicated to full time wet lab (or dry lab) work. We are particularly interested in recruiting applicants with experience in either wet lab or dry lab work to lead those projects.

Published on: 29 Jan 2025

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