Department of Bioresource Engineering welcomes astronaut David Saint-Jacques

Published: 3 February 2025

The Department of Bioresource Engineering (BREE) enjoyed a visit last month from David Saint-Jacques, astronaut and Deputy Director, Lunar Exploration at the Canadian Space Agency, and BREE...

Rendering: The devil is in the details

Published: 18 March 2025

A Sanimax animal rendering plant in Montreal's east end has drawn complaints from residents for years, largely centering on odors coming from the facility. Recently, an agreement reached between...

McGill has become a leader in cannabis science

Published: 22 April 2025

The 4th Cannabis Scientific Symposium: From Plants to People, to be held May 5–6 at the RI-MUHC, brings together top researchers as well as investigators, policymakers and industrial stakeholders...

Quebec's Exceldor to be sold to Ontario company Sofina Foods—Pascal Thériault comments

Published: 22 May 2025

The Quebec cooperative Exceldor, known for its chicken breasts, wings, and nuggets, has taken steps to sell its assets to the Ontario company Aliments Sofina....

Pascal Thériault: For American farmers, it is impossible to do without Canadian potash

Published: 11 March 2025

As the threat of impending tariffs and counter-tariffs loom, U.S. agricultural producers have very few options to substitute Canadian potash, an essential ingredient in fertilizer, McGill...

Tariff trouble prompts Montrealers to prepare for price hikes—comments from Pascal Thériault

Published: 5 March 2025

Food including meat, vegetables, and fruits are on the long list of products from the U.S. subject to Canada’s 25% counter-tariffs....

Quebec adopts new code to regulate 'forever chemicals' in biosolids—comments from Prof. Grant Clark

Published: 19 March 2025

The presence and concentration of PFAS, also known as "forever chemicals," in fertilizing residual materials will be monitored under new standards in Quebec through a management code, according to...

Bridging worlds as the ice recedes

Published: 17 July 2025

McGill PhD candidate Alexandra Langwieder works with James Bay Indigenous communities to better understand polar bears

Decades after peregrines came back from the brink, a new threat emerges—comments from Prof. David Bird

Published: 18 March 2025

After DDT use nearly wiped out peregrine falcons in the 20th century, numbers are collapsing again in many countries, the Guardian reports....

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