Prof. Samer Faraj has been elected Membre Associé étranger of the Académie nationale de médecine, one of France's most prestigious scientific institutions. The academy's foreign associate membership, limited to 60 scholars worldwide, recognizes researchers whose work makes a significant contribution to health and medicine internationally.

Generative AI has begun replacing tasks at work, especially the dull, repetitive and simple ones. But when a task—or an entire job—is replaced by AI, the change doesn’t stop there. The jobs of the people using AI-produced information change too. “The implications are much wider ranging and touch many more jobs than the initial job,” says Matissa Hollister, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour.

Oil is used for transportation, packaging and fertilizer. It is essential to the global economy, and when its price spikes, just about everything gets more expensive. With global supply throttled by conflict in the Middle East, Quebecers will likely feel the pinch, most noticeably at the grocery store. 

Canada’s economy is shifting quickly, and RBC is working with a number of universities to deliver microcourses, short, targeted training to help users gain sought-after skills at no cost.

The McGill Personal Finance Essentials course is one of them. Developed in collaboration with McGill University, Western University, and the University of Guelph, RBC Online Microcourses offer Canadians a faster, more accessible path to job-ready learning.

At the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, Canada finished eighth in the total medal count. It was the country’s lowest Winter Olympic medal tally since the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City. The result is a failure of leadership; Prof. Karl Moore writes in Forbes.com. For many would-be Olympians, the costs are simply out of reach. Elite athletic programs don’t get sufficient funding, and according to the Canadian Olympic Committee, athletes are paying an average of $25,000 each year out of pocket just to compete.  

In a recent piece in The Conversation, Professor Emmanuelle Vaast examines the growing tensions between the use of artificial intelligence in warfare and surveillance. The discourse is prompted by a decision from AI company Anthropic, whose CEO refused to grant the U.S. military unrestricted access to its AI systems. The company established two "red lines": prohibiting the use of its technology for mass surveillance of citizens and preventing the deployment of fully autonomous weapons without having human oversight.