CTV NEWS | At 110, Westmount's Robert Wiener is Canada's oldest man
Wiener graduated from McGill's dentistry program, first in his class. He went on to teach at McGill for 25 years and helped found the first dentistry clinic at the Jewish General Hospital.
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MONTREAL GAZETTE | Democrats Abroad: Americans in our midst are consumed by U.S. midterms
That would certainly seem to be the case for a group of American students at McGill University. They’re called Democrats Abroad at McGill, and they’ve been reaching out to other American students in the city and helping them to register to vote while here.
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL | Beware of Management Risks in the Workplace
When it comes to management, B is for balderdash. Unfortunately, we embrace too much of it. Let’s start with goals, which are, after all, where everything is supposed to start. We are expected to have goals for our organization as well as personal goals (…)One more bit of balderdash for today: Efficiency should be a manager’s prime goal.
BLOOMBERG | The Irresistible Urge to Build Cities From Scratch
The mania for new cities is partly an outgrowth of globalization, with its “footloose” capital, says Sarah Moser, a geographer at McGill University who’s compiled a list of more than 100 such projects. Read more
THE WASHINGTON POST | 3 American authors vie for $75,000 history prize
The winner of the prize, open to all English-language history books and run by Montreal’s McGill University, will be announced Nov. 15.
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THE HILL | Human Rights without humans: The final line between artificial and superhuman intelligences
Op-ed by Jose Mauricio Gaona, an O’Brien Fellow at the McGill Center for Human Rights. Read more
TORONTO STAR | Canadians at forefront of global study seeking solutions to refugee crisis
Meanwhile, the $3.7 million global refugee study — a collaboration between Carleton, York, Ottawa and McGill universities — has brought together international aid organizations, academics from the four refugee-hosting countries as well as their colleagues from the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States to seek practical, sustainable, grassroots solutions to the crisis on the ground.
NPR | What Happens When A Country Bans Spanking?
Now a new study looking at 400,000 youths from 88 countries around the world suggests such bans are making a difference in reducing youth violence. It marks the first systematic assessment of whether an association exists between a ban on corporal punishment and the frequency in which adolescents get into fights.
FINANCIAL POST | Deutsche Bank's chairman of global investment banking driven by the power of one word
Article by Karl Moore, co-written with Emily Quadros, BCom student at McGill. Read more
THE ATLANTIC | The Pasta in Our Stars
“I guess physicists just love their food,” says Matt Caplan, an astrophysicist at McGill University who studies neutron stars.
MONTRAL GAZETTE | The Right Chemistry: My relationship with Alexa
Column by Joe Schwarcz, director of McGill University’s Office for Science & Society. He hosts The Dr. Joe Show on CJAD Radio 800 AM every Sunday from 3 to 4 p.m.
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RADIO-CANADA INTERNATIONAL | Cannabis use linked to increased risk of psychosis, warn professors
“One seminal, longitudinal study that followed 45,000 Swedish conscripts over 15 years found a six-fold increase in the risk of developing schizophrenia in those who consumed high amounts of cannabis,” write Ian Gold and Joel Gold, professors of psychiatry at McGill University and the NYU in a newspaper editorial.
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MONTREAL GAZETTE | Opinion: Harnessing 'disruptive' technologies for the global good
Op-ed by Martha Crago, vice principal, Innovation and Research at McGill University. Read more
MONTREAL GAZETTE | McGill grad donates $5 million to Global Food Security Institute
McGill University’s Macdonald Campus in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue got a major boost from a former student last week when it received $5 million donation from Margaret A. Gilliam, BSc’59.
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CBC NEWS | Young drivers who use cannabis at higher risk of collisions for at least 5 hours, McGill finds
Young people who use cannabis and drive are at greater risk of being involved in a vehicular collision even if five hours have elapsed since inhaling it, according to a McGill University study published Monday.
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