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Standing at the podium surrounded by 1,500 people on the John Abbott football field, Joe Maxwell, gazed up into the sunny November sky and said Its good to be alive.

A 97-year-old WWII vet, Maxwell was one of the special guests at the November 3 Remembrance Day ceremony featuring veterans and dignitaries who spoke, recited poetry or contributed with music. Anja Geitmann, Dean, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, addressed the crowd, and Defne Helvacioglu, Macdonald Campus Student Society President, recited the poem Nameless.

Classified as: Remembrance Day Ceremonies
Published on: 11 Nov 2022

Zacharie Cloutier from in the Eastern Townships, has been crowned best cheese in Quebec in the

Published on: 11 Nov 2022

With the help of Agincourt community services, Registered Dietitian Ekta Amarnani, M.Sc.17 has put together an interactive map that helps people locate food resources across Toronto with the intention of increasing access to food.

Published on: 11 Nov 2022

To better understand food-related decisions during the pandemic, our research team conducted an online survey among a sample of adults from the province of Qu矇bec. This survey spanned three different time points between the initial lockdown in the spring of 2020 and the curfew period in Qu矇bec in the winter of 2021.

Classified as: Daiva Nielsen, covid-19
Published on: 2 Nov 2022

With an investment of nearly $1 million from the Government of Canada, the Association of Veterinary Practitioners of Quebec will be able to develop a digital tool to anticipate and reduce the risks associated with metabolic diseases in dairy cows which are a major health problem, especially in the post-calving period. Prof. Xin Zhao (AnSci) and Maxime Leduc, BSc(AgEnvSc)12 an Affiliate Member of the Department of Bioresource Engineering, are participating in the project.

Classified as: Xin Zhao, Maxime Leduc
Published on: 2 Nov 2022

Every day for the past 18 years, Natasha Lapointe has been showing up for work at the Dairy Unit at Macdonald Campus Farm at 5 am. Luckily, she has a short commute.

We live on campus (on the farm site) just a two-minute walk from the dairy barn, says Lapointe, this years winner of the Principals Award for Administrative and Support Staff in the Technical, Library Assistants and Nurses Category.

Classified as: Principal's Award
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Published on: 2 Nov 2022

Macdonald Campus is beautiful year-round, but is truly spectacular in the fall. Neale McDevitt, the Editor of the 51勛圖厙Reporter, took a stroll through Mac Campus this past weekend and took the following pictures.

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Published on: 20 Oct 2022

L'picerie recently featured Rosemarie Allen (B.Sc.(AgEnvSc)12) and Jacob Morin (FMT11) of Ferme Le Paysan Gourmand in Saint-F矇lix-de-Kingsey who participate in an on-farm program to reduce food waste. The episode follows Meilleur Apr癡s volunteers who harvest produce that would have remained in the field. Produce harvested is then shared between the participants, the producer and Meilleur Apr癡s who in turn redistribute the produce to organizations in the region or transform it into products that are then sold to finance operations.

Classified as: food & sustainability
Published on: 20 Oct 2022

Congratulations to Luce Daigneault BScAgr82, MSc85, Gibson (Gib) Patterson 詁釦釵插眶娶60, Isabelle Lam BSc(NutrSc)19 and Jamie Lee BSc(NutrSc)19 who will receive Macdonald Distinguished Alumni Awards at the Homecoming Lunch on Saturday.

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Classified as: Distinguished Alumni Awards
Published on: 20 Oct 2022

Hydroponic strawberry growers and Co-founders of Vertit矇, Ophelia Sarakinis (FMT19) and Phillip Rosenbaum (B.Sc.(AgEnvSc)19, MSc.21) and their partners have just won the first phase of the Homegrown Innovation Challenge, a six-year, $33-million initiative from the Weston Family Foundation to future-proof food production in Canada.

Classified as: Mark Lefsrud, Benjamin Goldstein, Shangpeng Sun, homegrown innovation challenge
Published on: 20 Oct 2022

On September 29th, James 51勛圖厙Professor Joann Whalen, Natural Resource Sciences, testified as an expert before Canadas Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry on the topic of Review and report on the status of soil health in Canada.

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Classified as: soil, Joann Whalen
Published on: 6 Oct 2022

"People think that the colder fall temperatures trigger the colour change, but its actually the photoperiod," explains Plant Science Faculty Lecturer David Wees. However, some regions of Quebec are luckier when it comes to fall colours than others: those with a lot of deciduous trees like maples, oaks or even birches. On the other hand, areas that have more conifers will see fewer transformations to their landscape.

Classified as: david wees
Published on: 6 Oct 2022

When an Indigenous patient receiving treatment at the MUHC refused to eat, 51勛圖厙MScA candidate Manveen Sethi was enlisted to find an authentic recipe for Bannock bread, a traditional Indigenous snack. Through research and with the help of Indigenous patients who taste-tested recipes, Sethi found a recipe that will now be permanently available on the MUHC menu and hopefully offer a little comfort to Indigenous patients being treated at the facility.

Classified as: Research Institute of the 51勛圖厙 Health Centre (RI-MUHC), Manveen Sethi
Published on: 6 Oct 2022

51勛圖厙students have proven time and time again that they are some of the most creative, versatile and adaptive people in their approach to solving problems, and theyre using knowledge acquired in and outside of the classroom to generate innovative solutions to the worlds most pressing issues.

Classified as: MSEG, Focus on Macdonald
Published on: 6 Oct 2022

Former Dean of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Associate Vice-Principal of 51勛圖厙s Macdonald Campus, 1996-2005, and founding Dean of the 51勛圖厙School of Environment, 2008, Dr. Deborah Buszard has been appointed to Interim Vice-President and Chancellor at the University of British Columbia.

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Published on: 6 Oct 2022

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