Opinion: Protecting transgender people means protecting our pronouns

Published: 30 May 2017

"Pronouns might seem like a small price to pay for greater consensus. They aren’t. The removal of pronoun protection will kneecap the Bill. Here’s why."...

As tick season hits, Lyme disease patients say they need better care

Published: 30 May 2017

"Doctors refuse to prescribe for more than two to four weeks because the available standard medical evidence suggests harm, and no benefit to extended treatment," said Dr. Michael Libman,...

Cocaine more addictive than first thought, study finds

Published: 26 May 2017

“The study provides evidence that some of the characteristic brain signals in people who have developed addictions are also present much earlier than most of us would have imagined,” said Prof...

Are you an introvert, ambivert or extrovert?

Published: 25 May 2017

Professor Karl Moore speaks with Shannon Cuciz about the difference between introverts, ambiverts and extroverts on Global News Morning. Find out more: Global News

Dean’s Q&A: Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou Of McGill’s Desautels School

Published: 24 May 2017

When joining a new organization of any sort, it’s a good idea to get to know the new people you’ll be working with and have a plan of action. Those were the first two items on Isabelle Bajeux...

Brain area involved in addiction activated earlier than previously thought in recreational cocaine users

Published: 23 May 2017

Even among non-dependent cocaine users, cues associated with consumption of the drug lead to dopamine release in an area of the brain thought to promote compulsive use, according to researchers at...

How Montreal aims to become a world centre of artificial intelligence

Published: 23 May 2017

U de M and McGill University are the academic bedrocks on which Montreal’s AI sector has been built. About 150 AI researchers toil at the two institutions, making the city one of the world’s...

Is Canada’s carbon-pricing policy striking the right balance?

Published: 19 May 2017

The three of us agree that good climate policy needs to achieve all three objectives, and that doing so is certainly possible. But it requires political determination, attention to plenty of detail...

Materials and engineering: Rebuilding the world

Published: 18 May 2017

When Mahoutian started his PhD in civil engineering at McGill University in Montreal in 2011, his goal was to find a material that would sequester carbon, trapping it before it could get into the...

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