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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."

Published: 21 Aug 2019

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.

Published: 21 Aug 2019

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.

Published: 20 Aug 2019

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.

Published: 19 Aug 2019

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.

Published: 19 Aug 2019

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."

Published: 16 Aug 2019

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.

Published: 15 Aug 2019

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." 

Published: 14 Aug 2019

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.

Published: 14 Aug 2019

MSN | Astronomers Have Detected a Whopping 8 New Repeating Signals From Deep Space

One of the biggest mysteries out there in the Universe is inching closer to answers. An astonishing eight new repeating radio signals known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been detected flaring from deep space.

There is definitely a difference between the sources, with some being more prolific than others," physicist Ziggy Pleunis of McGill University told ScienceAlert.

Published: 14 Aug 2019

MONTREAL GAZETTE | The Right Chemistry: Good science is no laughing matter

It is certainly true that there have been scientists and physicians who at first were ridiculed and were subsequently recognized as visionaries. There are numerous other examples of scientific ideas that were first opposed then embraced, says Joe Schwarcz,  director of McGill University’s Office for Science & Society (mcgill.ca/oss). He hosts The Dr. Joe Show on CJAD Radio 800 AM every Sunday from 3 to 4 p.m.

Published: 12 Aug 2019

GLOBAL NEWS | People with strong partisan views get more facts wrong on a current events test

The stronger Canadians’ partisan views are, the more likely they are to choose the wrong answer on a series of factual policy questions, a survey has found.

Respondents were asked a series of neutral, factual questions, such as whether the unemployment rate was higher in 2015 or 2018, or whether the deficit had risen.

Published: 8 Aug 2019

SUDBURY STAR | Project imagines mining without the need for blasting

Imagine building a new underground mine — or expanding an existing one — without using explosives.

That’s the goal of a new project unveiled in Sudbury on Wednesday. And while the announcement was made in here, the money — $1.5 million — will go to McGill University of Montreal to test cleaner methods of mining. 

Published: 8 Aug 2019

CANADIAN GEOGRAPHIC | When it comes to stream health, land use and protection matter

I wanted to know how protection affects streams because most protected areas are not created specifically with streams in mind, says Dalal Hanna, a freshwater ecologist, science communicator, National Geographic Explorer, and PhD Candidate at McGill University. 

Published: 8 Aug 2019

CBA NATIONAL | The changing definition of family

Karin Galldin's family started as many do, with a simple desire to raise children. While the route she chose to get there was still unpaved, the path had been cleared. By the time she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, everything was in place for her to get legal recognition as one of four parents along with her partner, as well as the birth father and his partner. There is more acceptance today around diverse relationships involving multiple parents and alternative family structures.

Published: 7 Aug 2019

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