A new study says parents actually experience greater levels of happiness and meaning in life than people without children. Researchers from the University of California, Riverside, UBC and Stanford University conducted a series of studies in the U.S. and Canada. They found that parents are happier when taking care of their children than while doing [...]
The Clean Mining Alliance is a non-profit industry association that launched this week. It seeks to promote and encourage new forms of technology for use the mining industry in an effort to make mining cleaner, safer and ultimately less expensive. There are five charter members of the alliance include Kemetco Research, American Manganese, Nevada Clean [...]
Michael Byers, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at UBC, writes about the two proposed pipeline projects. “The first plan — a new pipeline called “Northern Gateway” — would carry 525,000 barrels per day to a terminal just south of the Alaska Panhandle, where it would be loaded onto [...]
Discover Magazine published a Scientific American blog post by Eric Michael Johnson, a doctoral student in the history of science at UBC. Johnson writes about breastfeeding and primates.
The Canadian dollar remains high, and starting next month Canadian visitors to the United States will be able to bring more stuff back without paying duties. A new report by BMO says we should expect an upswing of Canadians cross-border shopping this summer, which could add up to a potential $20 billion drain on the [...]
Lives are being put at risk by British Columbia guidelines that require psychiatric patients to be heavily sedated before they are allowed on an air ambulance, according to several rural doctors who say the mentally ill are being stereotyped as dangerous. Paul Dagg, an associate professor of psychiatry at UBC, said the flaws in the [...]
Kai Li, the W.M. Young professor of finance at Sauder School of Business at UBC, writes about the media frenzy over U.S. hedge fund Pershing Square’s successful proxy battle at Canadian Pacific. “The bashing of Pershing that we’ve seen begs the question of whether hedge funds are opportunistic investors or corporate saviours acting in the [...]
Canada’s places of higher learning have snagged the third spot in a global ranking of the top post-secondary education systems. The United States made it to the top of the list of 48 countries, followed by Sweden. The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Melbourne and was sponsored by Universitas 21, a [...]
Nova Scotia’s Health Department has released details of a review of a Halifax psychiatric facility that released a patient who was later charged in a fatal assault. The department says the review will focus on patient supervision and public notification when a patient fails to return while out on a pass. Dr. Alexander Simpson, the [...]
The toppling of Canadian Pacific Rail’s board of directors Thursday following months of pressure from activist investor Bill Ackman is a wake-up call for other ” Canadian boardrooms, some warn. “At corporate boards in Canada, there’s a sense of complacency that there’s a career for directors. They tend to stay longer, they tend to be [...]
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