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THE CONVERSATION | Spotlight on economic and social innovation marred by racial bias and exclusion

Innovative entrepreneurs who are racialized are being left out of the social and economic innovation circles. Wendy Cukier, a professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at Ryerson University, and Suzanne Gagnon, assistant professor in organizational behaviour at McGill University, wrote that racialized people are not being included in leadership roles in this innovation space, nor do they get the funds to do the work in the community they know best.

Published: 22 Oct 2019

CBC | Cindy Blackstock to receive honour from Sudbury's Laurentian University

Cindy Blackstock's background is in social work, and she's now executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society — an organization she co-founded — as well as a professor at McGill University in Montreal. She will be awarded a Doctorate of Laws from Laurentian University in Sudbury on Saturday.

Published: 21 Oct 2019

MONTREAL GAZETTE | Underfunding leaves Canadian climate science in a sorry state

The sorry state of Canadian climate science was recently documented by the report Investing in Canadian Climate Science, which, among other things, showed that over the previous decade, Canada’s funding of atmospheric climate science was about half of comparable international levels and was microscopic compared to its fossil fuel subsidies or pipeline buyouts, says Shaun Lovejoy, professor of physics at McGill University. 

Published: 18 Oct 2019

CTV NEWS | Cundill History Prize reveals three women as finalists for its literary award

Three books about political movements that shaped global history are in the running for this year's Cundill History Prize. A representative for the prestigious McGill University award says for the first time all the finalists for the US$75,000 prize are women.

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Published: 17 Oct 2019

THE SCIENTIST | Scientists Need to Demand Better Antibody Validation

Medical science has a problem, and everyone knows it. Imagine driving a car with a navigation system that is right just half the time, or doing math with a calculator that knows only half the multiplication table. It’s simply not rational, yet scientists are doing something similar when we use antibodies in research, says Peter S.

Published: 16 Oct 2019

MONTREAL GAZETTE | Cell phones, teens and mental health

I periodically get asked about cell phones and whether they are dangerous. The short answer is they are not and do not seem to increase the risk of developing brain cancer or any other form of cancer. I do worry about cell phones, though. I worry about their impact on the mental health of young people, says Christopher Labos, Montreal doctor and associate with the McGill Office for Science and Society.

Published: 16 Oct 2019

THE GLOBE AND MAIL | How do our brains fall for disinformation?

Part of the reason people fall for false content lies in the way our brains take in information, says neurologist Lesley Fellows, a professor at McGill University who has studied how the brain makes political decisions. Our brains are constantly and heavily filtering the world around us through a framework of biases and stereotypes created through our experiences. It’s a general feature of the brain.

Published: 15 Oct 2019

NATIONAL POST | Climate change threatens crops, water for billions around globe: study

Canadian research is part of an extensive global climate change study that has found billions of the world’s poorest people are at risk. “There’s a great potential for the problems to occur where people have the least ability to cope with it,” said Elena Bennett, who studies ecological systems at McGill University and is one of the paper’s 21 co-authors.

Published: 11 Oct 2019

MONTREAL GAZETTE | Hundreds of Quebec parents flock to Fortnite lawsuit

Jeff Derevensky sees first-hand how kids get addicted to video games like Fortnite. He is head of McGill University’s International Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High-Risk Behaviours. The psychologist treated many young people whose lives have been turned upside-down by their dependence on video games.“They do it excessively and they can have physical problems, like they don’t have enough sleep because they’re playing all night long.”

Published: 11 Oct 2019

NATIONAL POST | Election has been mostly free of mis- and disinformation, research shows

Canada’s election has so far been “largely clean” but misinformation and disinformation may start emerging during the final week of the campaign, a researcher warns.

The Digital Democracy Project, an initiative from the Public Policy Forum and McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy, collaborated with New York University’s Center for Cybersecurity to look at ads on Facebook during the first several weeks of the election.

Published: 10 Oct 2019

MONTREAL GAZETTE | McGill University's $200,000 Improv Workshop Project takes on life of its own, says Jean-Michel Pilc

When jazz pianist Jean-Michel Pilc joined McGill University’s Schulich School of Music in 2015, he found out that being a professor also meant applying for peer-reviewed grants.

Published: 10 Oct 2019

GLOBAL NEWS | Electronic tool effective in reducing overmedication in seniors: study

Lead author Emily McDonald, a researcher and internal medicine physician at the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, said taking multiple medications can be dangerous to people 65 and up, who are vulnerable to side effects.

Published: 9 Oct 2019

HEALTHLINE | How One Small Change Pushed People to Buy More Vegetarian Dinners

A new study finds a simple way to get people to eat less meat is to simply offer more than one vegetarian dish. Dr. Lesley Fellows, professor of neurology and neurosurgery at McGill University, who has studied decision making, says that "When human beings are making a choice, they’re very much influenced by context, including what other alternatives are available, in ways that are not obvious to the chooser.

Published: 4 Oct 2019

MACLEAN'S | Canada’s best Medical Doctoral universities: Rankings 2020

After last year’s tie, McGill University keeps top spot as the University of Toronto takes second. Universities in the Medical Doctoral category have a broad range of Ph.D. programs and research, as well as medical schools.

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Published: 3 Oct 2019

MONTREAL GAZETTE | What you need to know about pneumonia and flu shots

Around 1.5 million people are hospitalized with pneumonia every year. Around 100,000 die in hospital and a third of people hospitalized with pneumonia die within the year. Older patients are at greater risk and so are those with pre-existing lung disease. Smoking is also a risk factor for pneumonia, so if you need an extra incentive to stop smoking, this is it.

Published: 2 Oct 2019

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