University of Calgary

But Election Day is what matters.

I do wonder, too, I mean, we've seen in credit to the Alberta government, they commissioned this report from the University of Calgary, the School of Public Policy.

I understand next week the Calgary Chamber of Commerce is going to be releasing their own report.

on the cost and the economic impact of separation.

I think this has helped put it in stark terms for Albertans, what it is we're actually talking about here, not just being angry, not just sending a message, but going down a path that has some very unpredictable elements, but some very real economic and fiscal consequences.

Your impressions of that University of Calgary report and how you think this has affected the conversation?

I think it is affecting the conversation among Federalists who already are committed to staying in Canada, but it may be helping to motivate Federalists to come out and vote.

The margin of undecided, Rob, is very small.

And before we bring her in, let's give her the introduction that she so richly deserves and worked so hard for.

So Dr. Tamara Pringsheim is a professor with the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary.

She's the program lead for the Tourette and Pediatric Movement Disorder Program at Alberta Children's Hospital.

and the Deputy Director of the Matheson Center for Mental Health Research and Education.

Um, I'm Nazer Forbes.

I'm one of the, uh, endoscopists and gastroenterologists, as well as researchers out of the University of Calgary, um, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

I served on the SOP for a total of five years, including, uh, two under Nirav's leadership, so was very, very grateful, um, to be given the opportunity to lead this very important, um, document on ERCP adverse events.

Perfect.

And my name is Martina Kelly.

I'm based in University of Calgary.

And today we are talking to Maria Houbinette, who is based in the new medical school of Simon Fraser University.

So, hi, Maria.

And a watermark cannot tell the difference between a student who used AI to fix their grammar from one who used it to write the whole essay.

As an aside for any of my listeners from the University of Calgary, the University of Calgary does not endorse any type of AI checking software for students.

For researchers, the pressing problem might be images.

In a 2024 study in Scientific Reports, more than 800 people were shown real and AI-generated kidney histology.

And just the kinds of political promises and rhetoric that we heard around the investor summit.

What does that really mean? Well, we're going to one of the country's leading economists, Trevor Toome, a research fellow at the University of California.

Calgary Co-Director of Finances of the Nation.

This is what he looks at.

We've been talking to Dr. Teresa Fowler.

She is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Calgary's Workland School of Education.

And of course, the province says that these reforms in Bill 25 are about accountability, neutrality, efficiency, and creating safe and respectful schools.