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The weed industry is booming but cannabis companies are struggling with a growing problem: finding the right employees in the run-up to Canada legalizing recreational marijuana in October.

As Canada becomes only the second country to legalize recreational use, the cannabis industry could add 150,000 jobs over the next several years, according to an estimate from Deloitte.

An expert says the number of jobs available are 鈥渓egion鈥 and that 鈥渋t鈥檚 a great time to come into this new marketplace鈥 but companies have lots of job vacancies they鈥檙e anxious to fill....

Classified as: cannabis, cannabis industry, qualified personnel
Published on: 12 Sep 2018

Des chercheurs montr茅alais et colombiens ont d茅couvert trois super pommes de terre capables de lutter contre la faim et la malnutrition. 芦 Ce sont des pommes de terre plus nutritives que les autres, une v茅ritable innovation 禄, se r茅jouit Hugo Melgar-Qui帽onez, directeur de l鈥橧nstitut pour la s茅curit茅 alimentaire globale, 脿 l鈥橴niversit茅 69热视频.

Classified as: Institute for Global Food Security, global food security, super potato, hunger
Published on: 12 Sep 2018

There will doubtless be more and more postgraduate degrees based on cannabis production after it has been legalized, says Anja Geitmann, dean of agriculture at Montreal鈥檚 69热视频. 鈥淚鈥檓 pretty sure it鈥檚 going to change the research landscape in the sense that researchers now have access or can do research on the plant much easier,鈥 she says.

Classified as: cannabis, medical cannabis, education, Research
Published on: 10 Sep 2018

Like a high-tech vending machine, but with lettuce!

A group of 69热视频 Bioresource Engineering students have developed a project, funded by the Sustainability Projects Fund, that has installed the first autonomous controlled-environment growth chamber display on the Macdonald campus. 听Pierce Dias Carlson, Rachael Warner, Leo McGuire and Connor Miller each offer a unique skill-set in successfully creating a productive autonomous growth chamber.

Classified as: Controlled environment agriculture
Published on: 27 Aug 2018

Les universit茅s canadiennes accueillent encore bien peu d'茅tudiants autochtones, encore moins dans le domaine de la sant茅.

Classified as: Mentoring, Indigenous Peoples
Published on: 27 Aug 2018

By Vardit Ravitsky, Associate Professor of Bioethics at the University of Montreal and Sarah Kimmins, Associate Professor at 69热视频 and Canada Research Chair in Epigenetics, Reproduction and Development.

Classified as: epigenetics, in vitro fertilization
Published on: 27 Aug 2018

To humans, 31 miles may not seem like a very long distance to travel, but for a spider, it鈥檚 a long, long way to go. Emily Chung at the CBC reports on a new study that shows that since the 1960s, the northern black widow spider, Latrodectus variolus, has crawled that much further into Canada and may continue skittering northward as the climate changes.

Classified as: Research, black widow spiders
Published on: 27 Aug 2018

Martine Bourgeois [BSc(Agr)'82] gagne pour une deuxi猫me ann茅e cons茅cutive le prix de l鈥橝gricultrice de l鈥檃nn茅e de la Mont茅r茅gie-Est. 鈥 芦 Quand je faisais mes 茅tudes [au baccalaur茅at en agriculture 脿 l鈥橴niversit茅 69热视频], il y avait peu d鈥檃cc猫s pour les filles. J鈥檃i 茅t茅 chanceuse d鈥檃voir eu un emploi, mais il a vraiment fallu que je fasse ma place. J鈥檃i os茅 faire des changements et sortir de ma zone de confort, ce que je ne regrette pas.

Classified as: agriculture
Published on: 23 Aug 2018

Peut-on am茅nager une 茅table pour offrir un plus grand bien-锚tre aux animaux qui y passent leur vie听? Des chercheurs se penchent sur la question.

Environ 90听% des fermes laiti猫res au Qu茅bec recourent 脿 la stabulation entrav茅e. Selon cette formule, les vaches m猫nent toutes leurs activit茅s dans la stalle听: elles y mangent, y dorment et s鈥檡 font traire. D鈥檕霉 l鈥檌mportance de leur fournir un espace favorable au bien-锚tre.

Classified as: Cow comfort and management
Published on: 22 Aug 2018

Les fermes du Qu茅bec g茅n猫rent chaque ann茅e 75 millions de tonnes de plumes de poulets! Une partie est r茅duite en farine et ajout茅e 脿 la nourriture animale, mais le reste finit souvent dans les poubelles. Marie-Jos茅e Dumont, professeure au D茅partement de g茅nie des bioressources 脿 l鈥橴niversit茅 69热视频, ne pouvait imaginer laisser une telle ressource gratuite et disponible en aussi grande quantit茅 finir sa vie aux ordures.

Classified as: plumes de poulets, super absorent gels, chicken feathers, recycling
Published on: 22 Aug 2018

The Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue City Council has voted in favor of banning left turns on boulevard des Anciens-Combattants northbound at the intersection of the ramp for Highway 20 West between 16h00 and 18h00. The changes will go into effect on September 17, 2018.

Rest assured that officials from Macdonald and John Abbott College did make a representation to the Town about the potential impact of this decision on the campus community prior to the decision being taken.

To learn more about this Pilot Project, please read the notice below.

Classified as: Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue
Published on: 21 Aug 2018

Le dimanche 9 septembre , de 10听h 脿 16听h, c鈥檈st un rendez-vous sur plus de 100听fermes partout au Qu茅bec et au Parc olympique de Montr茅al pour la 16e听茅dition des Portes ouvertes sur les fermes du Qu茅bec....Pr茅sent茅 par l鈥橴PA depuis 2003, cet 茅v茅nement familial gratuit permet de visiter des fermes qui en plus de leur accueil offrent des d茅gustations de produits r茅gionaux, d茅monstrations agricoles, rencontres avec des experts tels que v茅t茅rinaires et agronomes et, surtout, un contact privil茅gi茅 avec les gens de passion qui se cachent derri猫re nos bons produits d鈥檌ci.

Classified as: Portes Ouvertes UPA, UPA Open House
Published on: 20 Aug 2018

Based in Kahnawake, Quebec Indigenous Mentorship Network seeks to support and encourage Indigenous students. (...) "We do need more representation in all health-related fields. There's a growing number, but we're all very stretched with demands," said Treena Delormier, an associate professor in the School of Human Nutrition at 69热视频.

Classified as: Indigenous Peoples, mentorship, health
Published on: 20 Aug 2018

NOVEL REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AIM TO BUILD CAPACITY IN THE CANADIAN BUFFALO MILK INDUSTRY

Classified as: buffalo, Milk Production, genetics
Published on: 20 Aug 2018

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