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Do you remember what kind of car you were driving in 2005? If you’re like most Canadians, whatever vehicle you owned then, it was probably more fuel efficient than what you’re driving now. That’s just one of the many counterintuitive stats found today in The Conversation Canada in an article by Blake Shaffer of the University of Calgary, who reports that Canada’s vehicles have the highest average fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions per kilometre driven.
Other great reads for you this Thursday:
And finally….it’s Mental Health Week and Dr. Carlos Yu of Queen’s University tells us about recent emergency room experiences he’s had with boys who cut themselves on purpose. The doctor has suggested that young people who want to harm themselves could instead practise a mindfulness-based technique called “Take Five.”
Regards,
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A traffic jam on a busy highway near Vancouver, B.C.
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Blake Shaffer, University of Calgary
Vehicles in Canada are big, heavy and guzzle a lot of gasoline.
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Kimora Adetunji, 33, is seen with her son King, 2, outside Federal Court in Toronto in May 2017, where indefinite immigration detention was subject of a court hearing. Her husband was detained for almost a year before being released.
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Stephanie J Silverman, University of Toronto; Sharry Aiken, Queen's University, Ontario
Migration governance without immigration detention is desirable and achievable. Eliminating all detention will universally benefit citizens, migrants and everyone in between.
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Social and cognitive skills such as drawing conclusions about emotional states and social interactions are least vulnerable to being displaced by AI.
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Greg Naterer, Memorial University of Newfoundland
A shift to outcomes-based education will enable students to gain critical automation-resistant competencies to succeed and thrive in the future workforce alongside AI.
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In the United States, Black pregnant women are three to four times more likely to die from complications compared to their white counterparts.
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Roberta K. Timothy, York University, Canada
As we celebrate moms this Mother’s Day, let's remember that maternal health is a right that many do not enjoy.
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Many teenagers who self-harm do so to cope with overwhelming thoughts and emotions.
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Carlos Yu, Queen's University, Ontario
A doctor explains how he introduces mindfulness to self-harming youth in the emergency room.
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Un plan de physiothérapie coordonné étape par étape est essentiel pour les patients atteints de troubles liés au plancher pelvien.
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Claudia Brown, McGill University
Un plan de physiothérapie coordonné étape par étape est essentiel pour les patients atteints de troubles liés au plancher pelvien.
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Environment + Energy
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Jennifer Fitchett, University of the Witwatersrand
The spate of high intensity tropical cyclones making landfall in Southern Africa has been tied to very warm sea surface temperatures.
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Arts
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Matthew Sini, University of the Sunshine Coast
Many of the gowns and costumes at this year’s Met Gala attempted to capture the essence of camp, and in trying to do so missed the point of camp entirely.
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Politics
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Ed Bryan, University of Cambridge
As former director of the US Information Agency, Edward R. Murrow, once put it, presidential travel should be treated as a 'weapon' to influence popular opinion.
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