United Kingdom-based travel company Thomas Cook Group PLC said it agreed to buy French tour operator Jet Tours as well as Canadian travel wholesaler TriWest Travel Holdings, in a move to expand in France and North America.
Montreal-based TriWest Travel, which was acquired for 114 million Canadian dollars, will merge with Thomas Cook North America.
Both purchases [...]
The findings offer potential ways to find people at high risk of suicide, and perhaps to treat them and prevent future suicides.
And, the researchers said, they also offer insights into how neglect and abuse can perpetuate unhealthy behavior through the generations.
Moshe Szyf of McGill University in Montreal and colleagues studied the brains of 18 men [...]
The NHL Closer is written by the five aspiring television writers from Melt Your Face Off. When not huffing toner, they can be found desperately trying to get a pilot episode green-lighted for their action adventure series, Puck Force Five - Hockey Bloggers By Day, Crime Fighters/Lady-Killers By Night.
Well, hello there. A fine Friday it [...]
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Glastonbury may still hold the UK festival crown for sheer size, staying power and monumental ticket scramble but now there are so many others it can be hard to know where to stake your tent pegs. Each one brings an individual twist to the standard recipe of music, field and imagination, so whether you’re [...]
“I didn’t expect it to be easy by any stretch, but it’s even
more difficult than I thought,” said Franchitti, Montoya’s
teammate at Chip Ganassi Racing.
The attention Montoya received last season while winning rookie
of the year, a Cup race and a Nationwide race made the venture look
promising for anyone seeking a fresh start away from fledgling
open-wheel. No [...]
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This isn’t just a curiosity for jazz fans but a bold experiment in the neuroscience of music, a field that’s booming as researchers realize that music illuminates how the brain works. How we play and hear music provides a window into most everyday cognitive functions - from attention to emotion to memory [...]
Now, thanks to Dr. Sam Daniel, Associate Director of Research of the Otorhinolaryngology Division at the Montreal Children’s Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre, this protein has become an effective method to save newborns suffering from CHARGE Syndrome from having to undergo devastating tracheotomies. Dr. Daniel describes the case of the first infant patient [...]
Researchers looked at patterns of screen-time through high school, including total time viewing television, video, computer and the Internet. Then they examined the influence of neighborhood social factors on distinct patterns of screen-time.
%26quot;Boys and those whose parents had lower educational attainment were much more likely to be in the ‘high-screen time’ group,%26quot; said Tracie [...]
For an enduring gift I suggest Our Olympic Century, by Joesph Romanos. Here are some excerpts celebrating the romance of 100 years of New Zealand participation at the Olympic Games: There has never been an All Black Olympian, but there have been some near misses. Probably the closest was Mark Irwin, who played 18 games, [...]
