CBC NEWS | Indigenous, LGBTQ people disproportionately homeless, Quebec survey finds
McGill University Prof. Eric Latimer, the lead researcher on this project, said the two surveys can't be directly compared given their different approaches.
But he said a number of new housing-first programs have helped get more people off the street, even as rising rents have made it increasingly difficult for low-income people to stay in their homes.
NATIONAL POST | A human-rights approach is essential to end the global TB epidemic
Author: Madhukar Pai, Director of Global Health & Professor, McGill University
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN | A Common Anesthetic Could Ease PTSD and Other Stress Disorders
Alain Brunet of McGill University in Montreal has done extensive research on propranolol and says it has now been proven in a randomized clinical trial he published last year that propranolol is more effective than a placebo.
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RADIO-CANADA INTERNATIONAL | Do media need to scale down coverage of mass murders?
Whenever a tragedy of such horrific proportions occurs as the recent New Zealand killings, the media flock to the site and begin massive coverage. [...] Robert Whitley (PhD) is a professor of psychiatry at McGill University and research scientist at the Douglas Hospital mental health Research Centre both in Montreal.
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WIRED | Women's pain is different from men's- The drugs could be too
This represents the first direct human evidence that pain seems to be as sex-dependent in its underlying biology in humans as we have been suggesting for a while now, based on experiments in mice," says Jeffrey Mogil, professor of pain studies at McGill University in Montreal and a leading researcher on sex differences in pain, who was not involved in the Brain study.
NEW YORK TIMES | Boeing’s C.E.O. Speaks: ‘Our Hearts Are Heavy’
“The F.A.A. has been something that Canada would follow to a considerable degree,” said Karl Moore, a business professor at McGill University in Montreal who closely follows the aviation industry. “So I would view this as a considerable shift.”
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CBC NEWS | Montreal architects get $500K to show how Canada's cities hide in plain sight on screen
This week, the Canada Council for the Arts announced that Montreal architecture and design studio T B A will represent Canada at the prestigious event with their project Impostor Cities — which will be curated by David Theodore, the Canada Research Chair in Architecture at McGill University.
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CBC NEWS | 737 MAX 8 bans send airlines scrambling to move travellers
Video with Karl Moore: "I would urge Canadians to be a bit patient with Air Canada and WestJet because it’s not their fault that the plane is grounded."
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CBC NEWS | ‘Smart’ cities promise economic and environmental benefits to the developing world
Few see the world like Sarah Moser, one of the planet's most prominent researchers into a phenomenon that's taking over how we live: "New cities are seen as a way to transition economies from resource-based economies into a digital era. And oftentimes real estate is a key part of this project. It's an extremely lucrative business around the world right now. This is big money."
MONTREAL GAZETTE| EMSB students recruited to partner with MUHC researchers
Aiming to inspire the next generation of scientists, the McGill University Health Centre and the English Montreal School Boardare teaming up to pair high school students with researchers on a wide range of projects.
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MONTREAL GAZETTE | Opinion: Reducing poverty is a matter of political will
“Could this erosion of an already meagre benefit help explain why you can barely walk a block in downtown Montreal without seeing someone begging for change, or why people sleep on the street in minus 30-degree weather? Meanwhile, the Quebec government is sitting on a budget surplus that could reach $4.6 billion this year.”
Op-ed by Richard Goldman, a Montreal lawyer and a lecturer in the McGill School of Social Work
LA TIMES | Campaigns without end: Today’s presidential marathons took root in 1968
“We’re a G-7 country, and we manage to get an election started and finished in six weeks,” said Andrew Potter, a professor at Montreal’s McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
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GLOBAL NEWS | International Women’s Day
Global Montreal’s Laura Casella interviews McGill Principal Suzanne Fortier for International Women’s Day. Watch here
TVO | Settling Historical Canada
Canadian immigration policy has a checkered past, even as it was essential to building the country we know today. The Agenda discusses how past governments channeled immigrants to diverse parts of Canada.
Interview with Laura Madakoro, Department of History and Classical Studies
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL | Retail’s success hinges on improving the shopping experience
The world of retail is changing at a dizzying pace, and the transformation extends far beyond online shopping. A report issued by the World Economic Forum in 2017 on the future of consumption noted that retail is becoming more “inspirational, exciting, simple and convenient” in order to meet the needs of the empowered consumer.
