Childhood obesity. Working sick. Activist investors. Quebec's counterculture.

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• Several media report on new research led by Lisa Kakinami, an assistant professor in both the Department of Mathematics and Statistics affiliated with the PERFORM Centre, suggesting that poverty and parenting style are important predictors of childhood health. The study, published in Preventive Medicine, finds that the children of authoritarian parents tend toward obesity: Le Journal de Montréal, Canoe, AMEQ en Ligne (behind a paywall), News-Medical, Medical News Today, Newsroom America, Newswise, The Municipal Information Network (behind a paywall), Medical Xpress, Science Codex.
• Reports continue to circulate about a study of workplace presenteeism by Gary Johns, a professor in the Management Department of the John Molson School of Business, and University of East Anglia academic Mariella Miraglia, listed as the lead author. The study, recently published in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, looks at the the factors that drive people to report for work when they are sick: Bustle,Agweek, WTVBAM.com, Reuters, Newsmax.
• Denis Schweizer, an associate professor in the Department of Finance, is among three academics cited by Chief Investment Officer in a report on a study by Schweizer, Mark Mietzner of Zeppelin University and Dirk Schiereck of Darmstadt University of Technology. The study concerns itself with sovereign wealth fund managers and whether they are likely to act as activist investors to enact change in the companies they hold. 
• LaPresse.ca publishes a review of Pratiques et discours de la contreculture au Québec (Septentrion), by Jean-Philippe Warren, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Andrée Fortin of Université Laval. The book combines the findings of the authors' separate research on Quebec's counterculture of the 60's and 70's. The La Presse review mentions that Warren was recently awarded the Governor General's Literary Award for his book Honoré Beaugrand - La plume et l'épée(Boréal).

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