Bailout fallout

Published: 10 February 2017

McGill University management professor Karl Moore tells Global’s Laura Casella about the federal Bombardier bailout and what that means for the aerospace company’s future....

McGill steadfast in support for respectful discourse

Published: 9 February 2017

McGill recently became aware of a disturbing communication on social media by a student. The University strongly condemns expressions of hatred or incitement to violence against any individual or...

Why opioid overdose deaths seem to happen in spurts

Published: 9 February 2017

But we shouldn't assume that such deaths are necessarily linked, cautioned Nicholas King, an associate professor at McGill University in Montreal who has studied the factors behind increased opioid...

Hypocrisy isn’t the problem. Nihilism is

Published: 8 February 2017

With every change of administration come charges of hypocrisy. Those who governed by executive order suddenly learn the dangers of unilateral presidential power, and those who thought executive...

Sex, drugs, and rock & roll chemistry in the brain

Published: 8 February 2017

The same brain-chemical system that mediates feelings of pleasure from sex, recreational drugs, and food is also critical to experiencing musical pleasure, according to a study by McGill University...

Response to U.S. Executive Order restricting travel to the U.S. by citizens of seven countries

Published: 7 February 2017

McGill is responding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s Executive Order restricting travel to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries, Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic) Christopher...

Canada must act now to get international justice in Syria

Published: 7 February 2017

Launching a formal complaint against Syria under the Convention against Torture would at long last set the wheels of international justice in motion and send a strong message to the countless...

Tomislav Friščić awarded NSERC’s Steacie Memorial Fellowship

Published: 7 February 2017

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada has awarded an E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellowship to Prof. Tomislav Friščić, to support his work in an innovative branch of chemistry...

Law student 'research-a-thon' seeks to overturn U.S.-Canada refugee pact

Published: 6 February 2017

Co-organizer Brodie Noga, who studies law at McGill University, said he was inspired to act by the freeze on refugees and his work with an Iranian citizen who was refused entry into the United...

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