The Quebec Institute of Public Health (INSPQ) analyzed a number of studies in order to draw up a portrait of the impacts of densification on health. It looked at levels of physical activity and walking, noise and air quality, the risk of injury from vehicles, and social interactions.
Opposition parties in Quebec City are urging the government to react to reports that Glencore is considering closing the Horne smelter if investments to meet air quality targets are too high.
Contamination from pollutants emitted by the Horne smelter could reach areas larger than the expropriation perimeter, according to the group Meres au front, which presented the results of a new study on Friday in Montreal.
Ottawa, Nov 27 (Prensa Latina) Cuban and Canadian universities explored new possibilities of collaboration after a visit by a delegation of the Ministry of Higher Education (MES) of Cuba to several provinces of this country, reports today a dispatch from the Cuban Embassy in Canada.