CBC | Untested legal options could give feds ways to intervene on Bill 21
"There are legal bases for challenging the law that are not touched by the notwithstanding clause at all," says Robert Leckey, dean of law at McGill University.
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CBC | Are Quebecers hypocrites when it comes to climate change?
Jean-François Daoust, a post-doctoral fellow at McGill's Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship. Daoust, who studies voter behaviour, said it's rare to see a correlation between an issue's importance and where the votes ultimately go.
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PSYCHOLOGY TODAY | Negative Memory Bias and Depression
Coping with depression is no easy task. Despite being one of the most widespread forms of psychiatric pathology, the simple answer is that researchers are not certain {what causes depression}. As noted above, some depressive episodes may be triggered by trauma, but other factors—including one’s neurochemistry, one’s neural architecture, and how well one’s brain responds to stress—can have an impact on how susceptible an individual is to depression.
GLOBAL NEWS | The opposition at Montreal city hall wants to make cycling safer for children
Montreal’s opposition party, Ensemble Montreal, wants to make the streets of the city safer for children on bicycles. Opposition leader Lionel Perez said he will ask the mayor to make helmets mandatory for riders under the age of 18.
MSN | 6 Health Benefits of Cranberries
You may associate cranberries with the holidays, but there are good reasons to consume them year-round, either frozen, dried, or in juice form. In a new study from McGill University in Canada, researchers selected bacteria responsible for urinary tract infections, pneumonia, and gastroenteritis. When bacteria are treated with antibiotics they typically become resistant to its effects.
MONTREAL GAZETTE | Montreal researchers probe muscle-loss disease in elderly
A team of Montreal researchers has devised a new set of criteria to better diagnose a disease that affects the elderly, sarcopenia, which causes loss of muscle mass.
The improved criteria raise hopes that physicians will be able to detect the disease in people earlier, and therefore, to recommend certain types of exercise and nutrition to stem the loss of muscle mass, say scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre.
CTV | Urban agriculture gets boost in efforts to grow farming sector
Urban agriculture is getting a $750,000 boost from the province and from Montreal to help develop the farming sector. The goal is to spur innovation and growth in urban farming, agriculture and local greenhouses, ensuring the projects align with the needs in each part of town to add to the vitality of the area.
THE GLOBE AND MAIL | Mind your Zs: schools study adding sleep to their lesson plans
Ms. Boursier, a French and ethics teacher at Montreal’s Heritage Regional High School, says she has added sleep to her lesson plans – why it’s important and how to get more of it – because a lack of sleep is hurting her students. Ms.
MONTREAL GAZETTE | Covo Cup: McGill, Harvard to mark anniversary of historic rugby match
Sports fans may know that McGill grad James Naismith invented the game of basketball in 1891; but less known is the fact that McGill rugby also has a place in history for its significant contribution to the creation of what became American football.
INDIA TODAY | Lack of interest in music linked to brain disconnection
Have you ever met someone who just wasn't into music? They may have a condition called specific musical anhedonia, which affects three-to-five percent of the population, found a study.
Using the fMRI data, the researchers found that while listening to music, specific musical anhedonics presented a reduction in the activity of the Nucleus Accumbens, a key subcortical structure of the reward network.
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW | Earth’s “fingerprint” could one day help us find a habitable exoplanet
Two astronomers, {Evelyn Macdonald, recent physics graduate, and supervisor Nicolas Cowan, associate professor}, based at McGill University in Montreal, pored over data collected by the Canadian Space Agency’s SCISAT satellite, which was originally launched to help us better understand Earth’s ozone depletion. Since 2004, SCISAT has made continuous observation of the light that passes through the atmosphere when Earth is in front of the sun.
MEDIUM | Machine Learning and Mental Health
Neuroscientists and clinicians around the world are using machine learning to develop treatment plans for patients and to identify some of the key markers for mental health disorders before they may set in. One of the benefits is that machine learning helps clinicians predict who may be at risk of a particular disorder.
MONTREAL GAZETTE | Three moms launch plant-based milk: a lawyer, a dentist and Katia Pacioretty
Necessity is the mother of invention, the adage goes. And so when a Montreal mother of two couldn’t find an alternative she considered suitable for her daughters once she stopped breastfeeding, she decided to develop her own: an organic plant-based milk called Bebe Latte.
MONTREAL GAZETTE | Montreal girl, 6, explores the sky with McGill astrophysicist
“I wanted to meet a specialist of the sky, the stars and the night,” said six-year-old Zoey, who was introduced to astrophysicist and McGill professor Victoria Kaspi at the Mont-Mégantic Observatory in Notre-Dame-des-Bois last week.
“When I was Zoey’s age, I knew very little about astronomy and had no idea one could have a career in this area,” Kaspi said in an email interview after spending the day with the Montreal student.
VANCOUVER SUN | Higher levels of opioids and meth found in Vancouver waste water
Metro Vancouver has higher-than-average levels of opioids and methamphetamine in its waste-water system compared with other Canadian cities, according to a new Statistics Canada study analyzing cannabis and drug use in the country based on what Canadians flush down their toilets.
