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Senior Fellow Carlo Dade's editorial piece for The Globe and Mail “Canada’s Whac-a-Mole trade strategy is a losing game.”

The Department of Economics is pleased to announce the creation of the annual Marleau Lecture Series on Economic and Monetary Policy.

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As a science writer, my work is grounded in not just facts, but the idea of truth. I used to believe wholly in something called the truth. Now, I'm struggling to understand what this means, and what believing in truth says about a person.

The uOttawa Governor's Challenge student team meets Governor Poloz and Deputy Governor Lane at the launch of "The Governors of the Bank of Canada" book published by New Federation House.

The University of Ottawa is pleased to announce the awarding of three University Research Chairs, highlighting exceptional achievements in research. One of the chair was awarded to Nafissa Ismail, Associate Professor at the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Social Sciences.

(In French only) « Wow, tout s’est déroulé si vite »

On the strength of Canada’s two major intellectual traditions, anglophone and francophone, the Faculty of Social Sciences stands as a centre of excellence in knowledge creation, research and training.

“By spending some time there, I was able to fully appreciate it what it means to be a buffalo farmer”

World of Ideas Why do we sometimes mistake people we know for strangers, or strangers for people we know? The confusion is explained by Isabelle Boutet, a psychology professor who specializes in facial recognition. Her research focuses mainly on people aged 55 and older and their ability to recognize faces.