From trash to treasure
Posted on Monday, May 6, 2013 at 11:18 amEach spring, graduating students trash their belongings in their rush to move on to the next chapters of their lives. Each fall, new students arrive, anxious to buy things as cheaply as possible. Campus Swaps is there to connect the dots.
The Sundance Kid
Posted on Monday, February 11, 2013 at 12:25 pmThanks to her much-praised work in Breathe In, a film that recently debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, Mackenzie Davis, BA’10, is attracting a lot of attention in Hollywood.
This boss went undercover
Posted on Friday, January 4, 2013 at 3:59 pmThis isn’t how Mood Media CEO Lorne Abony, BA’91, typically dresses. It’s part of his disguise for an appearance on the hit TV show Undercover Boss.
Flashpoint co-creator takes aim at final season
Posted on Monday, December 10, 2012 at 3:09 pmStephanie Morgenstern, BA’88, made TV history when the Toronto-based police drama she co-created aired on U.S. television without disguising its Canadian setting.
How sweet it is
Posted on Sunday, December 9, 2012 at 4:58 pmby Neale McDevitt Shortly before McGill began its attempt to break Fresno State University’s Guinness World Record for the largest fruit salad, Mathieu Laperle, director of McGill Food and Hospitality Services, admitted, “This is easily the craziest thing we have ever tried.” Over the course of a late August day, shifts of some hundred volunteers [...]
The veterans’ advocate
Posted on Sunday, December 9, 2012 at 4:35 pmby Linda Sutherland Several years ago, a chance encounter with a war veteran during a visit to the Canadian War Museum had a profound effect on Paul Kavanagh, BSc’75, DDS’79. While waiting in line at the museum cafeteria, he noticed an elderly veteran ahead of him who was struggling to come up with $7 to [...]
Striking the right note
Posted on Sunday, December 9, 2012 at 4:25 pmby Richard Andrews A student-run McGill program is using the power of music to transform the lives of disadvantaged children—as well as those of their volunteer teachers. With support from the McGill Alma Mater Fund, the Montreal Heart of the City Piano Program (MHCPP) provides free piano lessons to budding young musicians from four inner-city [...]
VD, or not VD: that is the question
Posted on Sunday, December 9, 2012 at 4:18 pmby Gary Francoeur When most people think of William Shakespeare, they imagine great tragedies, kings and queens, and star-crossed lovers. But as John J. Ross, MDCM’92, points out, many passages in the Bard of Avon’s works are also laced with references to something decidedly less grandiose: venereal disease. In his new book, Shakespeare’s Tremor and [...]
Is there a spectre in the stacks?
Posted on Friday, October 26, 2012 at 4:30 pmCould there be any truth to the Internet rumors that the McLennan Library is haunted? The McGill News investigated.
McGill’s first Olympian
Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at 3:31 pmMore than 100 years ago, at the 1908 London Games, Percy Nobbs, the young director of McGill’s School of Architecture, became the first McGillian to compete for a Canadian squad in the Olympics.
