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Carbon pricing is bound to be a major, divisive topic during this year’s federal election. Today in The Conversation Canada, Adebayo Majekolagbe of Dalhousie University provides an excellent analysis on how Canada designed a “top-down” climate policy that has left the national strategy vulnerable to changes in government at the provincial level. A better solution: coming up with a “burden sharing” approach that puts the onus on each province and territory to meet specific emission reductions.
Have you ever wondered about what produces that wonderful smell in a forest after a rainfall? Ruth Schmidt of the Université du Québec explains how “microbial scents” are not only pleasing to the nose, but play an important role in the ecosystem by protecting plants.
And finally…fact checking has become a staple of today’s journalism, especially given Donald Trump’s proclivity for stretching the truth. But do you know about reality-based theatre? Jenn Stephenson of Queen’s University gives us an insight into the “theatre of the real.”
Regards,
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks about the federal government’s newly imposed carbon tax at an event in Toronto in October 2018.
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Adebayo Majekolagbe, Dalhousie University
Canada's top-down approach to designing its climate policy has failed. It needs to find ways to engage with individuals.
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A recent study estimates that high temperatures and drought will lead to drastic losses for all major food crops, including maize and wheat.
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Ruth Schmidt, Université du Québec
The microbes living in the soils around plant roots can help plants deal with a variety of stresses.
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Based in Québec, Porto Parole led by Annabel Soutar has toured and run several documentary theatre shows. Pictured here, ‘The Watershed,’ a docudrama about the politics of water in Canada.
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Jenn Stephenson, Queen's University, Ontario
Reality based theatre is a one way artists are challenging the lies put out by politicians like U.S. President Donald Trump, who exploits our contemporary insecurities.
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Les chimistes sont généralement représentés dans l’imaginaire comme des scientifiques fous, faisant de la magie noire et des explosions. Pourtant, les produits chimiques sont à la base du monde qui nous entoure.
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Alexandra Gellé, McGill University
La chimie est un formidable domaine de connaissance, de découverte et un puissant outil de transformation. Pourquoi les produits chimiques, présents partout, suscitent-ils tant de méfiance?
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Health + Medicine
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Neil Gibson, Heriot-Watt University
Where to start amid all the equipment, classes and lycra.
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Politics
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Kathryn L. Pearson, University of Minnesota
First elected in 1987, Pelosi offers decades of experience at building coalitions and she excels as a Democratic fundraiser. Still, the vote was closer than expected.
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Science + Technology
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David Rothery, The Open University
China has become the first to land on the far side of the moon. And unlike previous uncrewed moon landings, it relied on sophisticated technology rather than luck.
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