Canada’s ambitious vision for improving access to school food needs to be bolstered by community collaboration and high-quality research.
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Canada needs the arts, with its insights into human behaviour and thinking, more than ever. But governments and funding agencies should shift funding models for arts graduate education.
If scientists cannot freely conduct and communicate their work, the gap between evidence and policy widens, and that means Canada gets less effective laws and policies.
Unlocking the genetic cause of cystic fibrosis, and identifying treatments, has moved the prognosis from near certain death in infancy, to a median survival in Canada of 52 years.
Neutrons are useful in research and medicine. A proposed neutron production facility could help further Canadian research and provide a source of neutrons for medical purposes.
World Down Syndrome Day is marked on March 21 annually. Canadian scientists have helped improve the quality of life of those affected.
Eight years ago, the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research was shut down. Revisiting the vision of late Alberta premier Peter Lougheed may help raise Canada’s research profile.
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Emeritus Robert Reford Professor and Professor of Medicine, McGill University
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Assistant Professor, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University
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Master of Environmental Studies Student, Dalhousie University
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Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, University of Windsor
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Adjunct Professor of Physics, Laurentian University
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Acting Deputy Provost, University of Saskatchewan
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Assistant Professor in Department of Oncology, Western University
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Professor of Political Science, University of Calgary
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Professor of Political Science, Carleton University
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Professor, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan
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Research Associate, Westwood Lab, Dalhousie University
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Associate Professor of Food, Nutrition and Health, University of British Columbia