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Shrinkflation hits orange juice again—Pascal Thériault on Radio-Canada

Often considered a symbol of shrinkflation, orange juice is shrinking again, Radio-Canada reports. A modified bottle of the Tropicana brand is making its way into grocery stores in a format reduced to 1.36 liters.

Will other brands follow in Tropicana's footsteps?

Published: 26 Aug 2024

The cost of poutine, a symbol of rising prices—Pascal Thériault on 98.5fm

The price of food has been increasing since the pandemic. Even poutine is not immune to inflation: the price of sunflower oil used in fryers has doubled, and even the price of potatoes has risen.

Published: 26 Aug 2024

Pascal Thériault comments on Metro quarterly results

Metro announced a 14.6% drop in its net profit for the third quarter, ending July 6, 2024, compared to the same period last year. Its turnover increased by 3.5% to reach 6.65 billion.

Published: 26 Aug 2024

Professor Valerio Hoyos-Villegas receives early career scientist award

Congratulations to ɬ﷬ Plant Science Professor Valerio Hoyos-Villegas, 2024 winner of the North American Plant Phenotyping Network (NAPPN)'s Early Career Scientist Award! This award recognizes an early career scientist making important contributions to plant phenotyping.

Published: 26 Aug 2024

2024 Interdisciplinary Research Development Award Recipients Announced

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2024 Interdisciplinary Research Development (IRD) Award, announced earlier this month!

Published: 26 Aug 2024

The Jean-Martin Fortier phenomenon

In a recent article, L'actualité does a deep dive into small-scale farm enthusiast, author, and star of the popular series Les fermiers Jean-Martin Fortier (BA'02). This "rock-star" of organic microfarming in Quebec is highly regarded by many, though some have raised concerns that his presentation of the business as profitable and accessible to all is overly optimistic.

Published: 7 Aug 2024

Montreal wants more businesses to plant trees

In April, the City of Montreal announced it wanted to accelerate tree planting by incentivizing business owners to plant trees on their property, offering to foot 50 per cent of the bill, CTV News reports, in an effort to reduce heat islands, improve air quality and help drain rainwater.

Published: 6 Aug 2024

NSERC awards Discovery Grants funding to eight ɬ﷬ Agricultural and Environmental Sciences projects

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has awarded 101 ɬ﷬ research projects funding from its Discovery Grants competition for a total investment of $23.5 million, including $639,500 for eight projects submitted by researchers in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

The Discovery Grants support ongoing programs with long-term goals, recognizing the creativity and innovation that are at the heart of all research advances.

Published: 30 Jul 2024

Bread cartel: Loblaw will give $500 million to people who were cheated

Loblaws and its principal shareholder, George Weston, will pay $500 million to settle a class action lawsuit the company was facing in connection with a bread cartel. The people behind the lawsuit accused the country's major food chains of colluding on the price of bread to increase their profit margins.

Published: 30 Jul 2024

Prof. Dastmalchi receives prestigious Phytochemical Society award

Please join us in congratulating Mehran Dastmalchi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Plant Science, on receiving the prestigious Arthur C. Neish Award from the Phytochemical Society of North America (PSNA). The 63rd annual PSNA meeting took place in Monterrey, Mexico from July 15–19, 2024, where Professor Dastmalchi presented his lab's research in a keynote speech.

Published: 30 Jul 2024

To remove CO2 from the atmosphere, this former ɬ﷬ postdoc's startup looks to biomass

In 2019, while doing post-doctoral research in ɬ﷬'s Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Qinhong Cai (better known as Tammy) travelled to Nunavut to join the Oceans Protection Plan, a federal initiative designed to improve marine safety and increase the protection and restoration of coastal and seaway ecosystems.

Published: 22 Jul 2024

On NYC beaches, angry birds fight drones patrolling for sharks and struggling swimmers

Patrol drones deployed in May to New York City beaches to look for sharks and struggling swimmers are ruffling feathers. Seabirds have been attacking the drones as if they are predators, flying and swooping at the machines while vocalizing.

Published: 15 Jul 2024

Mac Campus and Music staff members honoured for Excellence in Undergraduate Academic Advising

Adelina Lameiras and David Wees are the latest winners of the Dean of Students Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Academic Advising.

Adelina Lameiras, Student Affairs Administrator at the Schulich School of Music, was recognized in the Administrative Staff category.

Published: 3 Jul 2024

ɬ﷬ student investigating why Quebec's red cardinal population has exploded

The population of red cardinals has exploded in Quebec over the past 25 years. After eight months of tracking 41 cardinals as they flew from tree to tree in different environments, a ɬ﷬ biologist spoke to the Journal de Montreal about why cardinals may be thriving here.

Published: 2 Jul 2024

Montreal peregrine falcon chicks take first flights into a world full of danger

The world is full of dangers when you're a falcon chick less than six weeks old and learning to fly — even if you're a member of the fastest species on Earth.

This week, three falcon chicks named Hugo, Polo and Estebane started to spread their wings around the nest site on the 23rd floor of the Université de Montréal tower, with hundreds of online viewers watching their every move.

Published: 26 Jun 2024

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