Series 25

Understanding how age-related changes to sensory abilities (e.g., vision, hearing) affect safe mobility and brain health, is the research focus of Dr. Jennifer Campos. Her presentation will focus on advances in the technologies and services that can help us achieve healthy aging.

In this presentation, I will explain the law with respect to medical assistance in dying (MAID) in Canada. For example, who is eligible? What are the procedural safeguards? What are the oversight mechanisms?

I will then describe what we know about how MAID is turning out in practice. For example, who is getting MAID? What are their reasons for requesting MAID? What is the relationship between MAID and palliative care?

I will then shine a light on the issues about which there is active discussion of law reform, in particular, advance requests for MAID (e.g., a person

The Time of Your Life: In determining the forensic significance of human remains, it is critical to establish the context of time. Were the remains deposited last week or a thousand years ago? Here we explore the many clues and procedures that define the context of a burial and the subsequent direction of all death investigations.

This presentation will introduce you to the McMaster Museum of Art, M(M)A a university-based public art gallery in the heart of the McMaster University campus. The museum creates inclusive, dynamic, and experiential relationships between peoples and artistic practices through educational programming for people of all ages.

At the heart of the collection is the Dr. Herman Herzog Levy Collection and Bequest, a noteworthy collection of European historical and modern art donated to the museum in 1984. This collection includes paintings by Claude Monet, Gustave Caillebotte, Gustave Courbet, Camille Pissarro, Chaim Soutine, J.M.W. Turner, Vincent van Gogh as well

The wine industry of Ontario has changed immensely over the years.  In this presentation, Ron Giesbrecht will give us new perspectives by looking into the underbelly of the grape and wine industry of Ontario, including a bit of history, a bit of context and a squared look at the future.

The Rise of Polarization in Canadian Society

Canada is not immune to the intense polarization that has affected the politics of the Western world. So in the coming months I will be launching a discussion in the Senate (known as an “inquiry”) as well as inviting thoughtful Canadians, like yourselves, to have conversations to think about the growth of Polarization. I would like to explore this trend in various areas of our lives, from the political landscape and legislative processes to the economy, the environment, Artificial Intelligence and equality to explore how polarization is testing the

The Affordable Housing Challenge: How Did We Get Here and An Assessment of Current Government Policies

The presentation will provide an insight into the basics of the housing market as it pertains to our current affordable housing situation. This is provided to gain an understanding of the underlying causes of the current situation. Understanding the causes for the current situation provides the basis by which current government policies, Provincial and Federal, will be evaluated in terms of their ability to address the components of the affordable housing problem. It is important to understand that different

Critically Thinking About Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity

It has become increasingly apparent that AI technologies have advanced quite rapidly in the last several years. In fact, it has happened so rapidly, my colleagues and I have been forced to prioritize our research to focus primarily upon the risks and governance of AI as we move into an uncertain future. Many of us believed that what we are experiencing with AI today was about 30 years away and that we had plenty of time to get to work on plans for regulating, legislating, controlling,