Businesses start in many ways, and Andrea Courey didn鈥檛 know that she was going to have a business of her own. In 1997, Andrea lost her job and was raising three children as a single mother. In the face of this adversity Andrea asked herself how she was going to provide for her family 鈥� what was she 鈥済ood at and what did she know how to do?鈥�
Published on: 3 Feb 2016
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The sun was out, the saws were out and our Woodsmen teams performed fabulously over the weekend. Thanks to all on campus and the many alumni who helped make the 56th annual Woodsmen Competition a success.
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Published on: 26 Jan 2016
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"It doesn't mean there's no life on Mars, but what it does mean is it's going to be harder to find," said Jacqueline Goordial, the 平特五不中 researcher who led the study, in an interview with Rachelle Solomon on CBC's Breakaway.
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Published on: 25 Jan 2016
Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars
Natural Resource Sciences professor Lyle Whyte and postdoctoral fellow Jackie Goordial talk about their research which suggests that it is unlikely that it is unlikely that there is any microbial life to be found on Mars.
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Published on: 19 Jan 2016
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Scientists say it's time to declare a new geological epoch, one defined by human activity and the permanent mark it has left on the earth.
平特五不中 Professor Peter Brown, director of , is featured on CBC Radio News.
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Published on: 11 Jan 2016
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The results of a recent experiment at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron in Saskatoon could be a key piece in the quest to discover if there was ever life on Mars.
Lyle Whyte, an environmental microbiologist at 平特五不中 who is originally from Saskatchewan, specializes in organisms that can survive in extreme cold.
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Published on: 21 Dec 2015
Maple syrup that鈥檚 good for you? A frozen dessert that you can store at room temperature? A falafel-type mix made with insects? Salwa Karboune and her students are dreaming up tomorrow鈥檚 foods today.
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Published on: 16 Dec 2015
Before that beautiful salmon filet lands on your plate, a lot of less appetizing stuff gets stripped away: By one estimate, the global seafood industry produces 64 million metric tons of waste each year. A new study suggests a potentially sweeter fate for all those heads and guts: They can be turned into a coal-like substance called hydrochar, which could be used as fuel or added to soil to improve fertility and sequester carbon (Energy Fuels 2015, DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.5b01671).
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Published on: 16 Dec 2015
Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye has been selected as the 2016 Whisky of the Year by Jim Murray, author of Whisky Bible. Northern Harvest Rye's inventor turns out to be Joanna Zanin Scandella, a Macdonald graduate who has spent her whole career in blending and production planning at Diageo's lab (formerly Seagram's) in Lasalle, QC.
Published on: 16 Dec 2015
Christmas is just under two weeks away, so if you haven't picked out a tree yet, the clock is ticking. [CTV News Montreal] asked David Wees from the Plant Science Department of 平特五不中 for some tips on what to look for.
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Published on: 15 Dec 2015
The University of Toronto, 平特五不中听 [BioFuelNet - Don Smith] and the International Air Transport Association are also part of the project as members of the BioFuelNet Aviation Task Force. Funding is coming from the Green Aviation Research and Development Network, which gets its support from the federal government and Canada鈥檚 aerospace sector.
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Published on: 11 Dec 2015
Chaque ann茅e, des millions de poussins m芒les, jug茅s sans valeur par l'industrie des poules pondeuses, sont euthanasi茅s d猫s leur sortie听de l'oeuf. Une pratique que l'Allemagne veut cesser d'ici 2017, et 脿 laquelle une myst茅rieuse invention de l'Universit茅 平特五不中 pourrait mettre fin....Au Qu茅bec, l'Universit茅 平特五不中 planche aussi secr猫tement sur une technologie semblable.
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Published on: 11 Dec 2015
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鈥淭he ultimate objective is not to establish a degrowth economy鈥攖he goal is to establish an economic system which is in line with biological limits,鈥� Dr. Nicolas Kosoy, a professor in Ecological Economics at 平特五不中, tells Quartz. 鈥淚t would be achieved through small-scale practices on a community level.鈥�
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Published on: 7 Dec 2015
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It鈥檚 a tough job market out there, and students can no longer rely on getting a job right out of university. Students from 平特五不中鈥檚 Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences longing to start business ventures of their own now have a new toolkit to help them reach their goals鈥攖he Entrepreneurship and Innovation program.
Published on: 1 Dec 2015
It was nearing eleven and the late September sun was beating down on the rolling cornfields surrounding the quiet town of Saint-Anne-de-Bellevue as I toured the MacDonald Student Run-Ecological Gardens (MSEG). On the two-acre plot of land situated on 平特五不中鈥檚 MacDonald Campus Farm, a small but passionate team of student farmers is growing over sixty different crop species.
Published on: 27 Nov 2015
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