What can stop obesity? . Karen Hitchcock, The Monthly © Karen Kasmauski / National Geographic Stock Why obesity is not your doctor’s problem. (….) I have heard people say thinness is beautiful and coveted because it is difficult to achieve and rare now, the way curves apparently appeal in times of famine. There are activists…
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Pascale Breton, La Presse La liste des écoles aux prises avec des moisissures et des problèmes de qualité de l’air s’allonge constamment au Québec, particulièrement à la Commission scolaire de Montréal (CSDM). Pourtant, le gouvernement ignore l’étendue du problème. Au ministère de l’Éducation, il n’existe aucune liste exhaustive des écoles touchées. Il n’y a pas de plan d’intervention…
Research into mind-altering drugs is back. By Zoë Corbyn, The Chronicle Review Illustration by Scott Seymour, original images from Shutterstock You don’t have to spend much time at the six-day second international Psychedelic Science conference in downtown Oakland to learn that not all its 1,900 attendees are academic scientists, and that few are strangers to…
EspaceInfirmier.com Cantonnées à des postes de techniciennes, les infirmières françaises émigrant au Québec réclament le statut de clinicienne. La formation française « comporte au moins 1 395 heures d’enseignement théorique et clinique de plus que le DEC québécois »,
Social justice to join the ghostly ranks of obsolete academic departments haunting university campuses Joseph Brean, National Post
No appetite? Richard Warnica, Canadian Business In the spring of 2006, Michael Pollan, a Berkeley professor and longtime journalist, published a magazine story about shooting and eating a wild pig. The piece was adapted from Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and became a kind of ur-text for a growing movement of food-obsessed urbanites. At once a…
No appetite? Richard Warnica, Canadian Business In the spring of 2006, Michael Pollan, a Berkeley professor and longtime journalist, published a magazine story about shooting and eating a wild pig. The piece was adapted from Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and became a kind of ur-text for a growing movement of food-obsessed urbanites. At once a…
Yves Boisvert, La Presse À ce qu’il paraît, les Québécois sont «découragés» ? Ils n’en peuvent plus de toute cette corruption, ces maires qui démissionnent, ces gens de Toronto qui ricanent? Arrêtez-moi ces lamentations!