Published Oct. 15, 2015, on Global News.
The gap between Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and Stephen Harper’s Conservatives is widening by the day, with the latest seat projections showing an excellent chance of a Liberal minority government come Oct. 19.
Dr. Andrea Perrella and I have a new paper in the Canadian Journal of Public Health that reveals some interesting insights into how people process information and weigh the risks and benefits of water fluoridation. In particular, we found, through an experimental survey instrument, that people’s support for water fluoridation can be lowered, but not raised.
According to Gail Lethbridge, it should be equivalent to what tenure-stream professors are paid:
This is because their pay [sessionals] is significantly lower that that of their full-time peers. An average salary for a full-time tenured professor in Canada is somewhere north of $100,000. A sessional teacher with the same course load is looking at $30,000 for full-time work.
Appeared on Aug. 20, 2015, in the Waterloo Region Record.
Summer is no time for an election campaign.
Authors: Andrea M.L Perrella, Simon Kiss
Published in the 2015 May/June edition of the Canadian Journal of Public Health.
