Search Results for: Health
How to Restore the Labour Market Balance: Transcript
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...We’ll be watching a broad set of indicators to gauge the health of the labour market and how it is adjusting to tighter monetary policy. As we watch to see...
Date: Thursday November 17, 2022
Feb. 20, 2014: Schizophrenia in Canada: The social and economic case for a collaborative model of care
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...schizophrenia is straining our country’s healthcare, social services and criminal justice systems. Through a more coordinated, multi-sector approach, it may be possible to enhance care, improve health outcomes and reduce...
Date: Wednesday February 19, 2014
Paul Santerre: A formula for turning ideas into products
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...an on-campus incubator called the Health Innovation Hub that teaches health science and biomedical engineering grads and early-career scientists the fundamentals of starting innovation companies. With the help of mentors,...
Date: Tuesday May 23, 2017
Heat-proofing community housing: Prioritizing extreme heat adaptation for vulnerable Canadians
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The upcoming decades are likely to have more dangerous heat waves and community housing residents are at a heightened risk for heat-related morbidity and mortality. This report shares four key recommendations for policymakers to improve the livability of community housing units and to tenants’ quality of life.
Date: Monday September 12, 2022
Bonnie Mallard: From the barn to the bench
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...developed High Immune Response (HIR) technology that man- ages livestock health through genetic identification. The patented technology is licensed by a Canadian company called Semex Alliance, which markets the enhanced...
Date: Tuesday May 23, 2017
Frontiers and Borders: The Internet and the Amplification of Illiberalism
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"Truth is an inescapable foundation of the liberal order and is in a precarious state in today’s liberal democracy. Our ability to address difficult issues such as climate change or electoral integrity is compromised if truth and public opinion become confused.” Edward Greenspon’s recent essay examines liberalism’s complex state of flux in an age of internet dominance. Greenspon draws on his firsthand experiences as a journalist covering the ascent of liberalism in the late 1980s and early 1990s, using it as a jump-off point for considering the ongoing struggle between the frontiers of change and social progress versus the borders of insecurity and social stability.
Date: Wednesday July 21, 2021
From the barn to the bench
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...man- ages livestock health through genetic identification. The patented technology is licensed by a Canadian company called Semex Alliance, which markets the enhanced bovine semen under the trade name Immunity+....
Date: Wednesday May 24, 2017
A Mouse Sleeping Next to a Dragon: New Twitches and Grunts
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...achieve a specific end. But we are now seeing states, especially China, use a combination of legitimate (ambitious merger and acquisition strategies), grey area (sudden health and safety bans) and...
Date: Tuesday December 19, 2017
Growth Summit II: Five Takeaways
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...and affordable housing. Immigrants in Canada’s largest city will have trouble succeeding without it, Keesmaat warned the summit, and so too will various sectors critical to the health of the...
Date: Sunday April 23, 2017
A formula for turning ideas into products
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...experience gained from IBI spurred Santerre to develop an on-campus incubator called the Health Innovation Hub that teaches health science and biomedical engineering grads and early-career scientists the fundamentals of...
Date: Wednesday May 24, 2017
Marshalling Incubators to Build Global Companies
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...success rate of other Third Party Countries at 22 percent. FP7 projects with Canadian participation reflected the priority thematic areas above: aeronautics, health, marine research, ICT and the MSCA (researcher...
Date: Wednesday March 1, 2017
The Belonging Advantage
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...investing in social capital — from public spaces to mental health services and programs to address social isolation — to ensure that people don’t fall through the cracks. Health care...
Date: Monday December 11, 2023
Dr. Xiangguo Qiu & Dr. Gary Kobinger: Against all odds, they discovered a treatment for Ebola
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...Ebola virus. Working at the Public Health Agency of Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, the two virologists focused on antibodies that had actually been tested and found ineffective in...
Date: Wednesday May 23, 2018
Don Wright on why our kids will struggle to have a higher living standard than us: Hub Dialogue
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...than better. What does that mean for our belief in ourselves as a society and our optimism individually and collectively? I just don’t think it’s healthy. Sean Speer You referred...
Date: Thursday September 2, 2021
Frontiers and Borders:
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...their futures. They were determined to make up for lost time by quickly creating a free-wheeling press and an invigorated political discourse. For a while, the precepts of a healthy...
Date: Friday June 18, 2021