Internet speeds. Big Pharma image. Moms, dads and flextime. Gardasil warnings.

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• Le Devoir writes about the Canadian Internet Registration Authority's internet performance test. Fenwick McKelvey, assistant professor in the Department of Communications Studies and co-developer of the test, is cited throughout.
• Lea Prevel Katsanis appears on Vice's "Vice du Jour" to talk about the marketing challenge for the pharmaceutics industry to deal with a negative image. Katsanis' segment opens the program at the 55-second mark.
• Eva Pomeroy, lecturer in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, appears on MaTV's "City Life" for a segment about managing family and work and millennials' increasing insistence on flextime. She is first seen at the 2:22 mark. The interviewer mentions Pomeroy's research in this area of interest.
• Life Site News, writing about the Manitoba government's decision to offer Gardasil, the vaccine against Human papillomavirus, to school-aged boys, mentions the stir within the Canadian health establishment in the wake of  the call by Geneviève Rail, principal at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, for a moratorium on the vaccine's distribution in Quebec. Rail, among other academics, had raised concerns about side effects of the vaccine.

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