Tag: Research
Can the dead speak? Prof treads unusual academic ground – after-death contact
Text messages from a dead loved one. The sensation of being hugged. A familiar whiff of perfume while walking in a forest.
Baranyai: Alberta going its own way on opioid crisis
Alberta continues to define a good chunk of its identity in mulish opposition to federal authority.
Commentary: Michigan joins federal program that collects native flora and champions restoration | Great Lakes Echo
By Elinor Epperson Of all the things I could step in while wandering the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge in Northeast Michigan, vulture vomit was not on my list. My hosts, a team of scientists looking for native plant seeds, warned me to avoid it. Elizabeth Haber is a lead botanist with Seeds of Success, a […]
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Two executives exit London hospital amid fight against looming $150M deficit
London Health Sciences Centre has begun slashing its top administration, long the subject of criticism as bloated and overstaffed, amid a looming $150-million budget deficit.
Trail Talk: A summer full of butterflies
Columnist Patrick Capper has seen 43 different species of butterfly in 2024
Great Lakes Echo founder retires | Great Lakes Echo
Dave Poulson, the founder and editor of the Knight Center’s award-winning environmental news service, has retired after more than 21 years on the MSU Journalism School faculty. We at the Knight Center miss him already. Poulson, a professor of practice, spearheaded the center’s initiatives to boost diversity among environmental journalism students and practitioners, securing grant […]
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Weeks into new five-year contract, King’s University College president exits
The head of Kingâs University College is abruptly leaving his job just weeks into a new five-year contract, but the London school isn’t saying why.
London researchers get $1.2M to study homelessness among women vets
London researchers are fanning out across Canada to get a better grip on homelessness among former service women, to shape policies to help.
‘Safe supply’ drug patient photo draws social-media fire, and his doctor’s defence
A social media post purporting to show a London safe supply patient selling drugs to teenagers is hardly telling the real story, says the doctor in charge of the program. The post contains unprovable allegations, is missing valuable information and is punishing an ordinary person trying to seek help for addiction, Dr. Dennis DiValentino said. […]
Bruce Power’s MCR and Bruce C projects reach new milestones
Bruce Power’s bid to expand output by up to 4,800 megawatts at its Tiverton site, in what could be Canada’s first nuclear construction project in more than 30 years, reached a new milestone this week. As part of its pre-development work — for which the federal government agreed to fund up to $50 million —Bruce […]