‘US’ IN THE NEWS

• Commerce professor Colin Boyd told Global News in Regina Dec. 22 that there are often strings attached to gift cards that have become very popular gifts at Christmas.

• CBC National listeners heard Sheila Watts of the Student Health Centre Dec. 21 explain the University's special after-hours study classrooms that are stocked with healthy snacks. She added that free massages are available at the Student Help Centre.

• Peter Phillips, director of the College of Biotechnology, told CBC Winnipeg Dec. 22 that when environment ministers of the European Union finally break their deadlock over genetically-modified canola, it will not likely have much benefit for the Canadian canola industry. EU countries have never been significant canola buyers, he said.

• Peter Flood, professor emeritus, Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, was a guest on CBC's Canada Now shown across the country Dec. 16 as part of a panel discussion about the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's find of traces of unlisted substances in cattle feed and the overall safety of the feed supply.

• A discussion about the upheaval involved in caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's Disease and the community supports available for caregivers on the Dec. 14 episode of the Prime TV show Body & Health included clinical gerontologist Dr. Jenny Basran from the Department of Medicine.