McGill SGI’s Annual Grand Challenge winners tackle greenwashing in Canada’s energy transition

Published: 21 March 2025

At the McGill Desautels we believe in empowering students to tackle real-world challenges through innovation and collaboration. Last week, the McGill Sustainable Growth Initiative (SGI), anchored...

Canada’s big pension funds hold lessons for funds elsewhere

Published: 27 March 2025

Canada’s big pension funds are the envy of fund managers in other countries. They’re something that the UK’s defined contribution plance could aspire to, writes Padraig Floyd in Pensions Expert. ...

SAQ stops selling dozens of Quebec-made gins

Published: 16 April 2025

Gin is a classic British spirit, but dozens of Quebec distillers have taken to making it their own, embracing James Bond’s favourite drink. The SAQ, however, is not doing Quebec’s gin distillers...

As climate research faces uncertainty, SUSANHub.com is a safe haven for data

Published: 15 May 2025

Just six months ago, researchers at McGill launched SUSANHub.com, a platform for sustainability researchers to share their work. The platform has grown quickly and now counts more than 39,000...

Emerging tech can help make business’ more resilient

Published: 13 June 2025

Emerging technologies like artificial intelligence have the power to boost business’ efficiency, but they can also make an organizations more resilient....

Online news act has negative effect on small publishers

Published: 13 February 2025

The online news act was designed with legitimate objectives: enhancing fairness, supporting press independence, and promoting a diversity of news sources. Unfortunately, it has had some unintended...

Retaliatory tariffs are economically unwise, but politically expedient

Published: 12 March 2025

With the United States both threatening and imposing tariffs, Canada has responded with counter-tariffs of its own. But could these measures do more harm than good?“Retaliatory tariffs are just a...

Buy Canadian movement shouldn’t interfere with prudent pension fund management

Published: 27 March 2025

The Trump administration’s tariffs have catalyzed a cross-country movement to buy Canadian products. But will that movement affect the how Canada’s big pension funds manage their portfolios? The...

Tackling greenwashing in energy transition

Published: 16 April 2025

How can we prevent greenwashing from undermining real climate progress? That's the question students from across Canada tackled at the 2025 SGI Annual Grand Challenge on Sustainability, hosted by...

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