Montreal Families.ca | October 2014
by: Kamila Hinkson
The SEDE Homework Zone program sees McGill students helping to instill good study habits and a love for learning in younger pupils.
Read the full story here
Montreal Families.ca | October 2014
by: Kamila Hinkson
The SEDE Homework Zone program sees McGill students helping to instill good study habits and a love for learning in younger pupils.
Read the full story here
McGill Reporter | Oct. 9, 2014
by: Neale McDevitt
On Oct. 2, Marie-Gil Fabris, a 2nd-year Management student, played hooky from school, but instead of sleeping in, going to a movie or just hanging out with friends, Fabris rolled up her sleeves in the kitchen of the Benedict Labre House, a resource centre for homeless people.
The McGill Daily | Oct.6, 2014
by: Jill Bachelder
From September 29 to October 9, workshops and volunteering opportunities were hosted by forty different organizations based throughout the Montreal community, with the majority of events happening on October 2.
Read the full story here
PARK(ing) Day turns Montreal parking lots into creative spaces
The McGill Daily | Sept 29, 2014
by: Siobbhan O'Connell
This year’s PARK(ing) Day took place on September 19, kicking over 200 cars out of their regular spots. Taking their place were arcade games, libraries, fruit stands, barbecues, musical acts, drum sets, and a variety of other interactive installations and activities.
Read the full story here
McGill Newsroom | September 29, 2014
Dr. Robin Rogers, one of the world’s most renowned green chemists, will become Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Green Chemistry and Green Chemicals at McGill University. Rogers comes to Canada from The University of Alabama, where he was Robert Ramsay Chair of Chemistry and director of the Center for Green Manufacturing.
Read the full story here.
Radio Canada International | Oct. 9, 2014
By: Marc Montgomery
A new report from the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in South Korea says that ocean acidification has risen alarmingly from absorption of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Further news on this topic:
Radio Canada | UN report: ocean acidity increasing rapidly due to CO2
Voirvert.ca | Sept 2014
netMTL, a join venture between students at McGill and Concordia Universities is taking on the goal of competing in the all-solar solar decathalon race, Solar Decathalon Europe, in 2016 in Versailles, France.
Read the full story here. (French only)
CBC News | Sept. 26, 2014
Plastic microbeads polluting St. Lawrence River, McGill researchers find.
Read the full story here
Washington Post | Sept. 29, 2014
by: Rachel Feltman
Plastic microbeads from face wash are polluting river sediment; Tiny balls of plastic from cosmetic products are showing up in river sediment for the first time, mixing with the rocks and dirt that line the bed of the Saint Lawrence River.
Read the full story here
Sept. 23, 2014 | NY Times
by: Michael Becker
"As a doctoral candidate at McGill University in Montreal, I have spent three years researching how the planet’s changing climate is affecting the polar desert ecology of the high Arctic. It’s precisely this balance of climate and permafrost, ice and ecosystems that I’ve come here to study."
The McGill Reporter | Sept. 24, 2014
by: Neale McDevitt
McGill’s fourth annual Indigenous Awareness Week came to a lively, colourful close on Friday, Sept. 19, with dancers dressed in traditional costumes performing an inter-tribal dance during the Pow Wow on the lower campus field in front of dozens of smiling spectators.
Read the full story here
CTV News Montréal | Sept 21, 2014
Thousands of environmentally-minded demonstrators assembled at Lafontaine Park Sunday to make a passionate appeal prior to Tuesday’s United Nation Climate Summit in New York.
Read the full story here
Phys.org | Sept. 18, 2014
A team of researchers from McGill University and the Quebec government have discovered microplastics (in the form of polyethylene 'microbeads', <2 mm diameter) widely distributed across the bottom of the St. Lawrence River, the first time such pollutants have been found in freshwater sediments.
The Gazette | Sept. 7, 2014
by: Michelle Lalonde
Dr. Catherine Potvin is a climate scientist in McGill University’s Department of Biology, at the school in Montreal, Thursday, September 18, 2014. On September 21 she will speak at Montreal’s version of the People’s Climate March, a global event billed to be the biggest climate protest in history.
Read the full story here
The Gazette | Sept. 7, 2014
by: Catherine Potvin
On Sept. 21, more than 1,000 events are planned around the world to demand stronger action on climate change, echoing New York’s People’s Climate March.
Read the full story here