McGill team starts championship quest in home pool By Jim Hynes The drive for…six. It doesn’t have quite the same ring, or rhyme, to it as the slightly inferior quest. But McGill’s synchronized swimming team is striving for it nonetheless – six consecutive national titles, that is.
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Medicine student has high – really high – hopes By Jim Hynes A McGill medical student hopes that a “long educational journey” will one day allow her to embark on one of the greatest journeys of all.
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Panel tackles the question of intellectual property rights in street art By Pascal Zamprelli Recently, Telus and MuchMusic had what they thought was a brilliant idea: a joint advertising campaign whereby they would sell photographs of downtown Toronto graffiti as wallpaper images for cell phones. They were a hit, and the plan was deemed a [...]
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On Friday, Nov. 27, some 800 students will cross the stage of Salle Wilfrid Pelletier in Place des Arts during the Fall Convocation ceremonies. One of the highlights of every semester, Convocation stands as a significant milepost in the lives of each graduate, marking the end of one leg of their life’s journey while pointing [...]
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Panel seeks suggestions for fostering excellence and community engagement By McGill Reporter Staff McGill’s strengths in research, scholarship and teaching have earned sterling marks in national and global rankings. The University is justifiably proud of its international character and reach. And it offers a range of valuable community outreach programs, from dental and law clinics [...]
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McGill a cappella choirs to headline Olympic event By Neale McDevitt As rivalries go, the ongoing turf war between Effusion a Cappella and Soulstice a Cappella – two of McGill’s three student-run a cappella choirs – is pretty friendly. They do their best to coordinate their respective audition and concert schedules so that they aren’t [...]
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Some scientists argue that we’ve already gone too far…They say that mitigation alone, or reducing CO2 emissions at their source, can no longer prevent climate change and all the danger that comes with it. They think that geo-engineering our climate (releasing aerosols into the atmosphere, carbon capture etc.) to counter the effects of greenhouse-gas induced [...]
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The McGill Global AIDS Coalition, in collaboration with Friends of Médecins Sans Frontières, McGill’s Human Rights Working Group, Dignitas McGill, Canfar and Universities Allied for Essential Medicines will be hosting World AIDS Week on campus from Nov. 16 – 20.
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By Neale McDevitt In a stirring, 90-minute Remembrance Day ceremony on McGill’s lower campus yesterday, more than 2,000 people paid tribute to fallen Canadian soldiers. The traditional two-minutes of silence commemorating the nation’s war heroes was broken by a 21-gun salute by four C3 howitzers that rattled nearby windows and set off car alarms. Dozens [...]
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What happens when political ideology trumps hard science? What are some of the ethical issues around the myriad new technologies that are being developed at breakneck speed, and how should they be approached? What’s the government’s role when it comes to science and innovation? Are Canadian citizens given the opportunity to play a role as [...]