Desautels students’ travel to Israel on business mission By John Matheson Some spend reading week lounging on the beach. Others occupy themselves with a backload of schoolwork. Twenty Desautels students, including me, were fortunate enough to travel to Israel during the break to study the country’s national competitiveness. With the recent Israeli elections and conflict [...]
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By McGill Reporter staff The McGill Martlets are the women’s hockey champions of Canada for the second year in a row. In a rematch of the 2008 Canadian Interuniversity Sports (CIS) championship tournament final, the No. 1-ranked Martlets took on and defeated the No. 2 Sir Wilfred Laurier Golden Hawks by a 3-1 score in [...]
Four Burning Questions
Mel Cappe spent more than 30 years in the Canadian public service, most recently as the High Commissioner for Canada to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. He served in a number of senior policy positions, was Canada’s top public servant as Clerk of the Privy Council, and has been Special Advisor [...]
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The politics of persuasion McGill’s Department of Art History and Communication Studies, Media@McGill and the Office of the Dean of Students present Whoever Tells the Story Writes History: Public Debate and the Politics of Persuasion, a lecture by journalist, author and activist Catherine Orenstein, founder and director of The Op-Ed Project.
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Free piano lessons strike a chord in Pointe St. Charles By Jim Hynes This classroom at St. Gabriel’s School in Montreal’s Pointe St. Charles district is like any other elementary schoolroom – it has simple tables and chairs, a few posters on the walls, and the ambiance is mildly chaotic…in a good way. But with [...]
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A view from the other side By Neale McDevitt By her own estimation, the last time Jana Luker sat on the student side of an undergraduate class “the Earth’s crust was cooling.” But on March 16, Luker, Executive Director of Services for Students and one of the University’s funnier administrators, found herself trying to keep [...]
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Presidency will bring annual conference to Montreal By Pascal Zamprelli Though his parents always stressed the importance of a good education, Anthony Morgan tended to get into lots of trouble in school. But in his last year of high school, he became drawn to issues of justice, and began reading about how African-American leaders in [...]
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Ivan Neilson to lead SSMU Exec By Pascal Zamprelli Last Thursday, students gathered at Gert’s, as is tradition, to hear the results of this year’s Students Society of McGill University (SSMU) elections. Arts Senator Ivan Neilson was elected the next President of SSMU, capturing 50.8 per cent of the 3,631 ballots cast, to his sole [...]
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Finance Minister to be keynote at MISC conference By Pascal Zamprelli Ever find yourself asking of the government, “where do they come up with this stuff?” But when it comes to public policy, perhaps a better question to ask is, “how do they come up with this stuff?” Do crisis conditions, such as the current [...]
Four Burning Questions
Much is known about the challenges to evolution education we’ve seen in North America, largely centered around Christian creationism, but we know very little about how Muslim students and their families may react to the teaching of evolution in science classes. The $250,000 Islam and Evolution research project has been examining how Muslims relate to [...]