Climb up to brain health. Another "dérangement".

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• Huffington Post, writing about the World Wildlife Fund's annual CN Tower Climb, taking place this weekend, references a recent Concordia study led by PERFORM Centre researcher Jason Steffener, describing how ageing of the brain can be significantly slowed through continued education and simple exercise, such as climbing stairs. Alink is provided to an earlier Huffington piece on the Steffener study.
• ProQuest posts a review of Kouchibouguac: Removal, Resistance and Remembrance at a Canadian National Park, written by Ronald Rudin, professor in the Department of History and co-director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. The review first appeared in the Saint John Telegraph-Journal. Rudin is also interviewed onRadio Canada's 'Format Libre' program about his work on the forcible removal of about 1,200 people, most of them Acadians, to make way for Kouchibouguac National Park, in New Brunswick. For the Radio Canada interview, follow the second of two links titled "Un nouvel ouvrage sur Kouchibougouac".

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