A doctor for the dying
Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 1:40 pmDr. Balfour Mount is considered the father of palliative medicine in Canada. While his field has come a long way in the years since he began his work, he says more should be done to attend to the needs of the dying.
Looking Back On Laurier
Posted on Monday, April 25, 2011 at 3:10 pmWas Wilfrid Laurier, BCL1864, Canada’s Barack Obama? Author André Pratte discusses the enduring legacy of the charismatic compromiser who became our first French-Canadian prime minister.
The unexpected terrorists
Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 10:27 pmAn increasing number of women are becoming involved in terrorist activities. According to expert Mia Bloom, BA’89, these women can be just as hard-core as their male counterparts.
The importance of place
Posted on Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 4:18 pmArchitecture professor Avi Friedman, M’Arch’83, worries that we’re so focused on making purposeful surroundings, that we’re forgetting how to infuse them with charm that makes them livable.
The six-month spaceman
Posted on Monday, March 15, 2010 at 3:04 amRobert Thirsk, MDCM’82, has boldly gone where precious few Canadians have gone before and he stayed there far longer than any other Canuck in history.
In Conversation with T.V. Paul
Posted on Monday, May 13, 2002 at 1:37 pmPolitical science professor T.V. Paul writes and teaches about war, nuclear proliferation, and the global balance of power. He is director of the Université de Montréal-McGill University Research Group in Internation-al Security (REGIS). His recent book, Power versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons, was selected by Choice magazine as one of its “Outstanding Academic [...]
In Conversation with Isztar Zawadzki
Posted on Thursday, March 7, 2002 at 3:12 pmThe last century was the warmest in the past 1,000 years, and the 1980s and ’90s were the warmest decades on record. Scientists predict that average temperatures could rise by as much as 5.8∞C, or 10.4∞F, by the end of this century. What’s wrong with warmer temperatures? One consequence we seem to be experiencing already [...]
In Conversation with William Tibbo
Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2001 at 8:41 pmBill Tibbo has spent a large part of his career helping people and companies recover from traumatic events. In September, he led a team of 50 social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists to New York City. They were among the many disaster response teams from all over Canada and the U.S. who counselled the people who [...]
In conversation with Saeed Mirza
Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2001 at 10:43 amSaeed Mirza is a professor of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics at McGill who has won awards for outstanding teaching and for contributions to the field of structural engineering. His special interest is the state of public structures like ports, bridges, roads and sewer systems. Mirza says their deterioration — thanks to inertia on the [...]
