Reading Time: 4 minutes A board member can think their position gives them extra power and privileges. When this happens, the situation can go sideways fairly quickly
Month: January 2021
New drug offers hope for breast as well as blood cancers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Results reinforce rationale for clinical trials expected to begin in May
Mazda MX-5 RF may be ugly but it handles like a dream
Reading Time: 4 minutes The RF excels at point-and-squirt city handling, and can carve corners with the best of them
Family-friendly podcast decodes basics of criminal law for children
Reading Time: 3 minutes Law professor Peter Sankoff and his 11-year-old daughter, Penny explore basic elements of criminal law in ways children can easily grasp
As Canadians flee cities, rural living gets its mojo back
Reading Time: 3 minutes Starbucks will close 300 restaurants in Canada by March. Other chains will likely follow suit. But have no fear, chains will surely open other stores but certainly not in city centres
Failure to use rapid tests in pandemic points to deeper problems
Reading Time: 5 minutes We still have time to act; we could approve and quickly license and produce rapid tests in Canada by the tens of millions
Trump is a case study in bad leadership
Reading Time: 3 minutes Good leaders respect themselves and others, listen, celebrate differences of opinion and understand that winning means creating circumstances where everyone benefits
Newly named AI chairs helping advance game-changing research
Reading Time: 4 minutes Twelve of the U of A’s top experts in artificial intelligence and machine learning have been named Canada CIFAR AI Chairs at Amii
Halifax-developed battery a game-changer for electric vehicles
Reading Time: 3 minutes Here are six things you need to know as civilization begins a serious transformation from fossil-fuel transportation to electric vehicles
Five steps to boost your motivation
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s easy to get caught up in a sense of hopelessness and helplessness, but that won’t help you conquer the year ahead