Quantifying Canada’s carbon sink
Canada’s role as a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol raises a lot of questions for Jing Chen. How will planting more trees help Canada meet its Kyoto target? How do we fulfill our Kyoto duty to measure and report on Canada’s carbon emissions? The geography professor and Canada Research Chair in Ecosystem-Atmospheric Interaction is finding [...]
Canada Research Chair Ben Levin offers his perspective
In late August, the Education Quality and Accountability Office released results of its annual assessments of Ontario students’ abilities in reading, writing and mathematics (Grade 1 to 6) and Grade 9 math. The official word from EQAO, an arm’s length agency of the Government of Ontario: “EQAO’s cohort tracking shows positive results for the majority [...]
When you hear the words “fuel cell” you probably think two things: one, that this zero-emission technology is years away,
Understanding how the immune system works is essential in designing new ways to treat and cure disease.
Why is it that some books “travel” well between cultures and languages, and others do not?
As the Canada Research Chair in Pediatric Rehabilitation Engineering,
It’s hard to forget the images of burning animal carcasses and quarantined farms following the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain.
Despite significant advances in the study of medieval music over the last century,
The Economics of Creativity – What makes a city a thriving place? How can a city become not just a “destination location” for tourists,
Will this be China’s century?
While in China recently with a delegation of colleagues from the Munk Centre, I was watching CNN in my Beijing hotel room. The anchor-woman was barely one sentence into a breaking story, “protest and violence have escalated in Lhasa, the capital city of Ti…”when the screen went blank. It stayed that way for about five [...]
