Expert: Ontario's Fair Housing Plan
鈥淥ntario's Fair Housing Plan introduces a comprehensive package of measures to help more people find affordable homes, increase supply, protect buyers and renters and bring stability to the real estate market.鈥� (Source)
Desmond Tsang, Professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, 涩里番
Expert on Trade: Brexit, CETA, and Canada-China free trade
What will be the impact of Brexit on Canada? What will happen with the new upcoming new Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) this summer? Also, what can one expect from upcoming free trade talks between Canada and China?
Andrea Bjorklund, Professor, Faculty of Law, 涩里番
Expert: OECD report on Montreal鈥檚 employment and innovation
The OECD has released a聽report titled "City of Talent Montreal: An Action Plan for Boosting Employment, Innovation and Skills": 鈥淢ontreal has huge potential to become one of the most dynamic cities across OECD countries, thanks to its talented and creative population.
Experts: Federal Budget 2017
Finance Minister Bill Morneau will introduce the federal government's latest budget on March 22, 2017.
Expert: NASA News Conference on exoplanet (Feb. 22, 2017)
NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 22, to present new findings on planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. The event will air live on NASA Television. (Source: NASA)
Expert on Israel: What's happening to the Two-state solution?
"Palestinians reacted with anger and bafflement on Wednesday after the Trump administration apparently backed away from insisting that having two states 鈥� one for Israelis, one for Palestinians 鈥� was the only viable solution to the decades-long Middle East conflict." (New York Times)
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Hynes Convention Center - Boston
Jumpstarting Neurological Research through Open Science 鈥� MNI & 涩里番Friday, February 17, 2017, 1:30-2:30 PM/ Room 208
Experts: Quebec mosque shooting
Here are 涩里番 professors available to comment on the Quebec mosque shooting:
Experts: Donald Trump's Administration
These 涩里番 experts are available to comment on decisions made by Donald Trump and his team:
Separated Fathers: Breaking the Isolation
Around 40% of heterosexual marriage in Canada ends in divorce, and 70% of breakups are initiated by the woman. Robert Whitley, professor in social psychiatry at 涩里番, directed a short documentary on a group of separated fathers in Montreal who discuss their struggles, challenges and perseverance. Documentary can be聽live-streamed here.
Expert: 鈥淚ntelligence report claims Russia has compromising information on Trump鈥�
"The chiefs of America鈥檚 intelligence agencies last week presented President Obama and President-elect聽Donald J. Trump聽with a summary of unsubstantiated reports that聽Russia聽had collected compromising and salacious personal information about Mr. Trump, two officials with knowledge of the briefing said.鈥� (New York Times)
Experts: US Presidential Inauguration (Jan. 20, 2017)
These 涩里番 experts are available to comment on the US presidential inauguration of Donald Trump: Jacob Levy, Dept. of Political Science, 涩里番Jacob Levy is one of the world鈥檚 leading libertarian political theorists.
Expert: Famine in Nigeria
鈥淢ore than 2,000 people may have died of famine this year in parts of northeast Nigeria which cannot be reached by aid agencies due to an insurgency by Islamic militant group Boko Haram, hunger experts said on Tuesday.鈥� (Reuters)
Academic Freedom in a Volatile World
The聽Scholars at Risk Network聽organizes two sessions on December 8 in Ottawa to discuss threats to academic freedom.
Around the world today, scholars are attacked because of their words, their ideas and their place in society.
