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Café Scientifique is where you can have a drink and learn about the latest ideas and issues in science and technology in an informal setting. It’s not a lecture! It’s a place for group discussion and audience involvement is the most important ingredient. Find out about Café Scientifique around the world…

For more information on the upcoming Cafe Scientifique events listed below, click on the host city or the title.

Host	Date	Topic
	2012

Sudbury	Tues June 12	Who Owns Your Body?
Toronto	Sat May 26	Vaccines: Is the Controversy overshadowing the Science?
Toronto	Wed May 9	Is your community keeping you healthy or making you sick?
Sudbury	Tues May 8	Tiny Particles, BIG Questions: The science of SNOLAB
Toronto	Tues May 8	Aging Positively: Let's talk about the good, the bad and the ugly for men aging with HIV
Toronto	Mon May 7	Aging Positively: Let's talk about the good, the bad and the ugly for women aging positively
Toronto	Wed Apr 25	Can our immune system battle cancer?
Ottawa	Tues Mar 27	What is the Future of Energy in Canada?
Ottawa	Tues Feb 28	Between Life and Death: How does determining time of death affect the ethics of organ donation?
Toronto	Sat Feb 18	LOVE: Just the right mix of genes and a few chemicals in your brain?
Toronto	Thurs Feb 9	Can Viruses Kill Cancer?
Toronto	Sat Jan 21	2012 Science Predictions: What does the future hold?
Toronto	Tues Jan 10	Drinking like a fish: How the zebrafish may help us treat alcoholism

	2011
Ottawa	Tues Nov 29	Raising Chickens in the City:Human Right or Health Risk?
Ottawa	Tues Oct 25	Science in Society: For Better or For Worse
Toronto	Sat Oct 22	Science in Society: For Better or For Worse
Sudbury	Tues Sept 13	Food for Thought: Can We Call Our Food System Secure?
Vancouver	Thurs June 23	The Hype about IPS: Practical Applications of Advances in Stem Cell Research
Toronto	Friday June 17	SCIENCE goes to the movies!!
Ottawa	Mon June 6	Nanotech: the BIG controversy of miniature science
Toronto	Wed June 1	Cancer Prevention: Is It Possible?
Calgary	Tues May 31	The Future of Arctic Science
Ottawa	Tues May 31	Biofuels: Are We Saving or Starving the World?
Toronto	Thurs May 12	Can we prevent, predict, and detect cancer with images?
Montreal	Wed May 11	Home is where the Heart is: Palliative Care at Home
Edmonton	Wed May 4	Synthetic Biology: Engineering the Building Blocks of Life
Vancouver	Fri April 29	Let's Talk about Dhil Dhee Sehayth (Heart Health)!
Montreal	Wed April 27	Understanding obesity, seeing past the stigma
Sudbury	Wed April 27	Stress: Too Much, or Never Enough?
Ottawa	Tues April 26	Autopilot versus Human Pilot: Which is safer?
Calgary	Tues April 26	Archaeology Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries
Toronto	Sat April 16	Nuclear Energy: What does the future hold?
Ottawa	Tues Mar 29	Healthcare: Right or Privilege?
Halifax	Tues Mar 24	Looking at the links between local and global health
Calgary	Tues Mar 22	What's in the Water? Can we trust our water supply?
Toronto	Sat Mar 19	Is there a Formula for Beauty?
Saskatoon	Tues Mar 15	Brave New World or Franken-Future?
Montreal	Tues Mar 8	Juvenile Arthritis
Guelph	Tues Mar 8	Pharmaceuticals in your drinking water - an easy pill to swallow?
Kelowna	Mon Mar 7	For Better or for Worse: Women's Efforts to Promote Men's Health
Vancouver	Fri Mar 4	For Better or for Worse: Women's Efforts to Promote Men's Health
Toronto	Wed Mar 9	WAKE UP! Is sleep more important than we think?
Calgary	Tues Feb 22	Science Fiction to Science Fact
Ottawa	Tues Feb 22	Airport Scanners: Protecting our Security or Invading our Privacy?
Toronto	Thurs Feb 17	What does Cancer Look Like? Picturing Cancer
Halifax	Wed Feb 9	What's the Harm in Helping?
Vancouver	Tues Feb 1	Home Birth Understood: Tales & Truths
Calgary	Tues Jan 25	How is Facebook changing business, politics and society?
Saskatoon	Thurs Jan 20	What's the take on Gender and Saskatchewan Health?
Toronto	Sat Jan 15	Quantum? What is it and Why should I care?

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