By Earl Zukerman Carey Ashton, the bench coach with the McGill men’s baseball team, has won the 2010 Chunky Most Valuable Coach award. The Montreal native had been one of six finalists from nearly 900 nominated coaches from across Canada, and went on to receive the most votes in an internet balloting process to take [...]
Around Campus
What is it like to witness war up close, as an observer of hostilities rather than a participant in them? On Tuesday, March 23, Media@McGill and McGill’s Faculty of Arts will welcome two-time Pulitzer Prize and McGill alumnus John F. Burns for a free public lecture, From the Front Lines: Covering Conflict in the World’s [...]
Around Campus
Did you know that deep venous thrombosis (DVT), the formation of blood clots in the lower limbs, is the third most common vascular disease in North America after heart attack and stroke, and is a frequent complication in hospitalized patients?
Around Campus
As part of the 2010 Anna I. McPherson Lectures in Physics, Nobel Laureate David J. Gross will be presenting a free public lecture on what the future holds for the field of physics. Presently the director and holder of the Frederick W. Gluck Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics of [...]
Kudos
Congratulations are in order for Professor Kim Brooks of McGill’s Faculty of Law, one of 10 professors from across the country selected for Canada’s most prestigious university teaching awards, the 3M National Teaching Fellowships. While her area of expertise, tax law, might not sound so exciting, Professor Brooks’s passion for the subject is contagious.
News
Maher Arar addresses state of civil liberties in a post-9/11 world By Pascal Zamprelli A former CIA counter-terrorism chief, Maher Arar said, was once quoted as saying the U.S. response to 9/11 could be summed up thusly: the gloves came off.
Headline News
McGill medical residents pitch in to do their part By Robin Cardamore, Gillian Morantz and Jennifer Turnbull It has been more than two months since a massive 7.3 earthquake devastated Haiti, killing some 230,000 people and leaving an estimated one million more homeless. While the world community responded to the tragedy with an outpouring of [...]
Green corner
By Neale McDevitt You’d figure that at an institution of higher learning, basic information would be easily assimilated by the community – especially if that information is conveniently colour-coded. Unfortunately, such is not always the case when it comes to McGill’s campus recycling program. Confusion still leads to large quantities of high-quality recyclable material being [...]
Athletics
By Jim Hynes McGill’s varsity hockey squads experienced both ends of the competition spectrum last weekend, with the Redmen enjoying the thrill of victory in capturing the Ontario University Athletics Queen’s Cup, and the Martlets suffering the agony of defeat in the CIS women’s hockey championship final.
Point of View
The 2010 budget of the Government of Canada has struck a difficult balance in difficult times. It proposes to continue short-term stimulus spending, and introduces medium-term austerity measures, while sustaining long-term provincial transfers. It also welcomes global competition and reduces regulation in a range of economic spheres, even as it reinforces some domestic subsidies.