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THE GUARDIAN | Air pollution nanoparticles linked to brain cancer for first time

“Environmental risks like air pollution are not large in magnitude – their importance comes because everyone in the population is exposed,” said Scott Weichenthal, at McGill University in Canada, who led the study. “So when you multiply these small risks by lots of people, all of sudden there can be lots of cases. In a large city, it could be a meaningful number, particularly given the fact that these tumours are often fatal.”

Published: 13 Nov 2019

Daniel Almeida winner of the #ScienceExposed 2019

Science Exposed is a contest organized by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and devoted exclusively to images of scientific research, in all fields of study. Daniel Almeida, McGill student, won the #ScienceExposed 2019 Jury Prize and People’s Choice Award for his research image “La reazione nera (The black reaction)”.

Published: 12 Nov 2019

THE GLOBE AND MAIL | ‘Superbug’ is cause for alarm, with more deaths and massive costs looming, report says

Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, a panel member and medical sociologist at McGill University in Montreal, said the group looked to the 2003 SARS outbreak as an example of how public behaviour changed and people reduced their interactions in response to an increased risk of being exposed to a dangerous pathogen.

Published: 12 Nov 2019

CBC | Why studying music and the brain is so fascinating, and so difficult

New research is shedding light on how the brain interacts with music. It also highlights how challenging it is to study the issue effectively due to the highly personalized nature of how we interpret it. "Music is very subjective," says Dr. Daniel Levitin, a professor of neuroscience and music at McGill University in Montreal and author of the bestselling book This is Your Brain on Music.

Published: 11 Nov 2019

MONTREAL GAZETTE | Quebec is neglecting children suffering from obesity: expert

“There are a lot of complications of obesity in kids, and we need some investment from the government to treat more people, because our waiting lists are now up to one year,” Dr. Julie St-Pierre said at a news conference at her Clinique 180 on Mont-Royal Ave. E. “I’ve seen children as young as four years old develop Type 2 diabetes. It’s awful.”

Published: 8 Nov 2019

MONTREAL GAZETTE | Look past behaviour to treat original trauma, youth protection commission told

Children and teenagers who end up in Quebec’s youth protection services often arrive bearing a backpack of life experiences filled with violence, mistreatment and negligence. They have been wounded, betrayed and humiliated by the most important people in their lives — people who should have been giving them comfort and security, but who, for several reasons, could not fulfil that role.

Published: 6 Nov 2019

RADIO CANADA INTERNATIONAL | Obesity and addictive behaviour?

Are obese people addicted to food? It’s an often proposed idea and something researchers in Montreal investigated. Dr. Alain Dagher (MD. FRCP) supervised the research team. He is a professor in the department of neurology at the Montreal Neurological Institute (the Neuro). 

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Published: 1 Nov 2019

NATIONAL POST | If you could erase the worst memory of your life, would you? Scientists are working on a pill for that

The 60 souls that signed on for Dr. Alain Brunet’s memory manipulation study were united by something they would rather not remember. The trauma of betrayal. For some, it was infidelity and for others, a brutal, unanticipated abandonment. “It was like, ‘I’m leaving you. Goodbye,” the McGill University associate professor of psychiatry says.

Published: 1 Nov 2019

BLOOMBERG | How Governments Use Immigration to Boost Their Economies

Daniel Béland, director of the Institute for the Study of Canada at McGill University in Montreal, says Canada’s method has made immigration less divisive an issue than in other countries. “There is strong support for economic immigration, that it’s important for the country, demographically and economically,” he says. “The debate is more about how many immigrants and how we can tweak the point system.”

Published: 30 Oct 2019

MONTREAL GAZETTE | A ceremony and cookies celebrate Macdonald campus's fair trade designation

McGill University’s Macdonald Campus has become Canada’s 37th Fair Trade campus. The Macdonald Campus in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue now joins McGill University’s downtown campus in “their efforts to weave the Fair Trade philosophy within the academic community, and facilitate the choice and use of Fair Trade certified products,” Fairtrade Canada said in a statement.

Published: 30 Oct 2019

CBC | English Montreal School Board files legal challenge to Bill 21

While Section 23 has been tested in court, McGill University's faculty of law Dean Robert Leckey said that, to his knowledge, Section 28 has not. "There really hasn't been court interpretation of what Section 28 means," said Leckey. The section was added to the charter as extra protection to guarantee the equality of men and women. It has to mean something."

Published: 25 Oct 2019

MONTREAL GAZETTE | There's lots of meth in Montreal pee

Drug use is average to below average in Montreal compared to other cities — except when it comes to methamphetamine, a new study measuring the presence of illicit drugs in raw sewage has found.

Published: 24 Oct 2019

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

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