By Neale McDevitt Members include Stanley Cup champions, award-winning artists, trend-setting business leaders and visionary men and women who have helped shape the world in which we live. The Academy of Great Montrealers, as selected by the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal (BTMM), is a veritable Who’s Who of local luminaries that include the [...]
Notes from the field
By Grace Egeland With the start-up of the second year of the International Polar Year (IPY) Inuit Health Survey, I reflect over the work ahead while en route to Inuvik in northern Northwest Territory, a two-day plane ride from Montreal. When we were planning for this voyage in 2006, the Coast Guard informed us that [...]
Other News
By Chris Chipello Hundreds of times a year, a group of 10 to 20 people files out of the Welcome Centre in Burnside Hall and begins a one-hour trek around the main campus. The groups are composed of curious high-school students – many from the U.S. or abroad – and vigilant parents. Putting everyone at [...]
Athletics
By Jim Hynes McGill’s varsity sports teams are lacing them up in preparation for another exciting year. The McGill Reporter is increasing its sports coverage this year, and we’ll follow the teams and bring you player profiles. First up is a season preview of some of the major teams. Stand by for stories on other [...]
Athletics
By Jim Hynes McGill athletes past and present are returning to Canada from the Beijing Summer Olympics with a lifetime of memories, and one Bronze medal. Thomas Hall, a McGill physical education and kinesiology student from Pointe-Claire, took Bronze in the men’s C1-1000m (single canoe, 1000 metres) with a time of three minutes 53.65 seconds. [...]
News
By Doug Sweet Gut-wrenching pictures of starving people in the developing world and dramatic images of endless lines of people in the Philippines queuing for rice – rice! – in one of the world’s normally great rice-producing regions told Chandra Madramootoo it was time to do something.
News
By Chris Chipello On a balmy mid-August evening, while nearby bistros begin to fill with the 5-to7 crowd, a few dozen adult students pack into a Desautels Faculty of Management classroom for a three-hour session on financial accounting.
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By Pascal Zamprelli “Working with students, I think it’s a psycho-therapist’s dream job,” says Dr. Robert Franck, of working at McGill’s Student Mental Health Service, where he has recently been appointed Clinical Director. Having worked McGill’s Department of Psychiatry for about 25 years – the last 10 of which were split between part-time work at [...]
Around Campus
Double your fun at the Redpath Completed in 1882, the Redpath Museum is oldest building in Canada built as a museum and currently holds extensive collections in the fields of paleontology, zoology, minerology and ethnology. It also hosts an endless series of public lectures and events designed to edify, educate and entertain. Boat busters The [...]
McGill Web Gems
By Mark Shainblum Join us as we unearth the hidden gems and secret places on the websites of McGill University and its affiliated institutions. The Douglas Blogosphere www.douglas.qc.ca/blogs/ The McGill-affiliated Douglas Mental Health Institute has jumped into the blogging pool with a big splash, publishing no fewer than four regular blogs about mental health and [...]