The traditional nuclear family is no longer a given. By mining a wealth of statistical data, Céline Le Bourdais is gaining important insights into how marriage, divorce and separation are affecting Quebec society.
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Volume 2, Number 1
by Neale McDevitt Karen Johnston rewrites the rules of sports head injuries A quarterback gets “dinged” – knocked cold on the field – only to return in the second half to engineer a last-second victory in a game he will remember only from the television replays. A boxer peels himself off the canvas after having [...]
Volume 1, Number 1
By Christine Zeindler A professor sounds the alarm over the crumbling infrastructure in Canadian cities Canada’s cities are falling down – bridges and overpasses are crumbling, water and sewer pipes are leaking and oversized potholes threaten to swallow small cars. McGill civil engineering professor Saeed Mirza is concerned that our children will inherit a country [...]
Volume 2, Number 2
By Chris Atack We’ve all heard the aphorisms, but what role does nutrition really play in keeping the doctor away? Researchers in the School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition are delving into communities across Quebec, from First Nations towns on the shore of James Bay to cancer patients in Montreal hospitals, to better understand how our eating [...]
