Geoff McMaster • Troy Media Digital Solutions

Helping your kids recover vital routines lost to COVID

Reading Time: 4 minutes More family time can foster resilience in children affected by the disruptions

Crowded emergency rooms adding hidden costs to health-care system

Reading Time: 3 minutes Overburdened emergency physicians tend to order more tests for less-severe patients

How much homework is too much?

Reading Time: 4 minutes The underlying principle when it comes to assigning homework is balance

TikTok’s monkeypox disinformation follows familiar pattern

Reading Time: 4 minutes Monkeypox conspiracy videos were viewed 1.5 million times within 30 hours of posting

What you need to know about menopause

Reading Time: 8 minutes More awareness, education needed to help prevent women with severe symptoms from suffering needlessly, say experts

Profanity can make product reviews more persuasive

Marketing professor Katherine Lafreniere found that online reviews spiced up with swear words may be perceived as more helpful and more persuasive — up to a point. (Photo: John Ulan)

Reading Time: 3 minutes Product website gatekeepers might be better off allowing some profanity on their platforms

What makes leadership good, bad or ugly?

Reading Time: 4 minutes Instead of asking which single attribute fosters leadership, we should be asking which patterns of human qualities create the best outcomes

Researchers engineering new drug to beat blood cancers

Hasan Uludag holds a sample of leukemia cells treated with experimental drugs his team is testing that fight blood cancers by targeting gene defects in blood cells. (Photo: Geoff McMaster)

Reading Time: 3 minutes RNA technology used to target gene defects in blood cells that lead to diseases like leukemia

Animal welfare laws need to be strengthened in Canada

Reading Time: 3 minutes Gaps in regulations and enforcement leave companion animals, livestock vulnerable to abuse

U of A launches Indigenous-led strategic plan

The University of Alberta Indigenous Strategic Plan provides a framework to guide and measure the university’s efforts to respond to the calls to action in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Final Report. (Photo: Richard Siemens; beadwork by Tara Kappo)

Reading Time: 4 minutes Plan ensures Indigenous identities, languages, cultures and worldviews are reflected at the U of A

Author: Geoff McMaster