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Please find below suggested AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ experts on current topics of regional, provincial, national and international interest for Tuesday, March 19, 2019.Ìý

Federal Liberals hope to use budget to set stage for fall election  
AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ Expert: Lori Turnbull, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science.
Research Specialties: Canadian parliamentary governance, political ethics, elections, electoral systems, and public engagement.
°ä´Ç²Ô³Ù²¹³¦³Ù:Ìýlturnbul@dal.ca and 902-494-6605.

Housing affordability for millennials, national pharmacare, and expanding tax credits expected to receive boosts in today’s federal budget
AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ Expert: Dr. Howard Ramos, Professor, Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology.
Research Specialties: Social justice and inequality, migration – immigration, social change, social movements, social statistics.Ìý
°ä´Ç²Ô³Ù²¹³¦³Ù:Ìýhoward.ramos@dal.caÌý²¹²Ô»åÌý902-494-3130/902-494-6595.

Newly discovered DNA switch could give people ability to regrow limbs
AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ Expert: Dr. Ian Weaver, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.
Research Specialties: Neurobehavioural epigenetic mechanisms, early life experience, steroid hormone function, DNA and chromatin modification, programming of gene expression, cortical development, endocrine and behavioural stress responses, pharmacological interventions, psycho-social interventions.Ìý
°ä´Ç²Ô³Ù²¹³¦³Ù:ÌýIan.Weaver@dal.ca and 902-494-1133.

Improving water quality won’t be enough to protect coral reefs such as Australia’s Great Barrier Reef from the threat of climate change
AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ Expert: Dr. Aaron MacNeil, Associate Professor, Department of Biology.Ìý
Research Specialties: Fisheries, conservation, statistics, social-ecological systems.
°ä´Ç²Ô³Ù²¹³¦³Ù:Ìýa.macneil@dal.ca and 902 494-1731.Ìý

Rating the affordability of Canada’s new food guide
AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ Expert: Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, Professor, Food Distribution and Policy, Faculties of Management and Agriculture.
Research Specialties: Food distribution, food policy, food safety, food security, traceability.
°ä´Ç²Ô³Ù²¹³¦³Ù:Ìýsylvain.charlebois@dal.ca and 902-222-4142.

Many Canadians will have to liquidate assets to deal with personal debt in 2019
AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ Expert: Dr. Lars Osberg, Professor, Department of Economics.Ìý
Research specialties: Labour economics, income and wealth distribution.
°ä´Ç²Ô³Ù²¹³¦³Ù:Ìýlars.osberg@dal.ca and 902-494-6988.