MONTREAL GAZETTE | Looking for a vibrant commercial stretch in Montreal? Try Instagram
For small businesses and entrepreneurs looking to maximize visibility on a budget, a regularly updated Instagram account with vibrant visuals and constant communicability is seen as a cost-effective way to reach eyeballs without the responsibility of managing a physical space.
NATIONAL OBSERVER | They're teaching young voters not to be duped by 'fake news'
Samantha Reusch is aiming to help young Canadians identify misinformation online because she and her colleagues can't monitor all social media platforms for false information during this fall's campaign.
ELEMENTAL | Can You Make a Lactose Intolerance Disappear?
Roughly three-quarters of the world’s adult population has trouble digesting lactose, which is a type of sugar found in milk and other dairy products. Doctors routinely label people who experience these symptoms as “lactose intolerant” and counsel them to avoid dairy products.
THE TORONTO STAR | Here are some of the players appearing at the hearing into Toronto’s short-term rental rules
The Local Planning Appeal Tribunal that decides land use matters in the province has set aside six days of hearings to consider the City of Toronto’s short-term rental regulations approved by city council more than a year ago.
GIZMODO | Fossil Hunters Found Bones From an Ancient Whale... and Then They Saw the Bite Marks
The research into these bones culminated in a paper published recently in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica: “Shark-cetacean trophic interactions during the late Pliocene in the Central Eastern Pacific (Panama).”
LIFEHACK | How I work - McGill Professor
Dr. Patricia Hewlin, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Associate Professor in the Desautels Faculty of Management, studies organizational diversity and the organizational participation and treatment of minorities. As with so many How I Work subjects, her work has a personal resonance. Dr.
CBC | Deep Roots
Peter Enright, director of McGill University's farm management and technology program, said regardless of the specialization, there has been one major shift between the generations (...) -social networks that are completely transformed.
That’s why farmers "need to be constantly aware of the image of their industry, and they need to be ambassadors."
APTN NATIONAL | Montreal Pride makes space for Two-Spirit representation amid influx of online hate
Amidst scrutiny from racialized and marginalized groups, Fierté Montreal adopted a new mandate in 2019: to diversity and attempt to Indigenize their festival offerings as part of their bid to host World Pride in 2023.
MONTREAL GAZETTE | MUHC superhospital's new single-patient rooms credited for drop in gut infections
Outbreaks of a potentially life-threatening intestinal superbug dropped after the McGill University Health Centre opened its superhospital in 2015 — a dramatic shift attributed to the fact that the modern facilities have exclusively single-patient rooms, a new study has concluded. “The single-patient room experience at the MUHC’s Glen site has many benefits — privacy, confidentiality, comfort, reduced noise, and improved quality of sleep,” Dr.
MONTREAL GAZETTE | ‘Tinder for fintech’: Holt Accelerator gets new crop of startup hopefuls
Montreal’s Holt Accelerator is getting ready to welcome its second crop of startup executives for a 12-week training program aimed at bolstering their management skills and putting their companies on a path to growth. A kickoff event takes place downtown Monday, featuring eight entrepreneurs from five countries pitching their stories to industry experts and investors.
CBC | Canadian astronomers find 8 more mysterious repeating fast radio bursts from space
They're called fast radio bursts, or FRBs, and these odd, fleeting signals from space are shrouded in mystery. But thanks to Canada's largest radio telescope, astrophysicists are discovering more of them in their search to learn what makes these objects tick.
IFLS | Astronomers Have Found An Incredible 8 More Repeating Fast Radio Bursts
"There is definitely a difference between the sources, with some being more prolific than others," physicist Ziggy Pleunis of McGill University told Science Alert. "We already knew from FRB 121102 that the bursts can be very clustered: sometimes the source doesn't burst for hours and hours and then suddenly you get multiple bursts in a short amount of time. We have observed the same thing for FRB 180916.J0158+65, for which we report 10 bursts in this paper."
CBC | Should Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue allow backyard chickens? This group thinks so
A sustainable food group based out of McGill's West Island campus wants Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue to allow residents to raise chickens in their backyard. The group, Mac Regenerative Food Hub, launched a petition Friday, calling on the municipality to legalize small-scale poultry husbandry. So far, more than 50 people have signed the petition. Its stated goal is to have 100 signatures.
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY | Memories Linked to Social Defeat Can Hijack the Hippocampus
Negative memories associated with social defeat are more likely to take hold and "stick" to a web of neurons in some brains than others, according to a new study (Zhang et al., 2019) in mice. This web of neurons is called an "engram."
CTV | McGill doctors get financial boost to combat breast cancer
Two McGill University professors have joined the fight against breast cancer, and are about to get a big injection of funds courtesy of the federal government.
Liberal MP Marc Miller was at McGill's Holmes Hall to announce a $6 million investment for research over the next four years.