/channels/taxonomy/term/12646/all en /channels/channels/news/montreal-gazette-mccord-museum-will-double-size-and-stay-its-current-site-296693 <p>Months of speculation ended when the McCord Museum announced Tuesday that its new home will be built on the site of its current home on Sherbrooke and Victoria Sts. in the heart of Montreal’s Golden Square Mile. As McCord president and chief executive officer Suzanne Sauvage enthused about the museum’s ideal location, halfway between the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Musée d’art contemporain, close to downtown universities, near public transit, the soon-to-be-re-imagined ƽ���岻�� College artery and the ƽ���岻�� station of the city’s future light-rail system, she was philosophical.</p> Wed, 01 May 2019 14:44:33 +0000 webfull 148823 at /channels /channels/channels/news/montreal-and-mcgill-university-become-blue-communities-295634 <p>The Ville de Montréal and ƽ���岻�� today received Blue Community certification on the occasion of World Water Day. To obtain this certification, they have undertaken to recognize water and sanitation as human rights, to promote publicly managed water services and to ban or phase out the sale of bottled water in their buildings and at their events. Hence Montreal has joined some forty Blue Communities worldwide, including major cities like Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Victoria. For its part, ƽ���岻�� has become the fourth university in the world to obtain this certification.</p> Fri, 22 Mar 2019 14:38:09 +0000 webfull 147595 at /channels /channels/channels/news/do-we-trust-people-who-speak-accent-289812 <p>You are in a strange neighbourhood, your cell phone’s dead, and you desperately need to find the closest garage. A couple of people on the street chime in, each sending you in opposite directions. One person sounds like a local and speaks in a nonchalant manner, while the other uses a loud, confident voice but speaks with a strong accent. Who are you going to trust?</p> Wed, 19 Sep 2018 15:16:16 +0000 webfull 141098 at /channels /channels/channels/news/bystanders-cyberbullying-288182 <p>Your child is in elementary school and is begging you to buy them a cell phone, an iPod and iPad.  Anything, as long as they can communicate with their friends, either by texting or through social media.  As a parent, you’re worried about cyberbullying.  Indeed, up to 30% of children and adolescents admit to cyberbullying others, while 25% of students report being victimized on electronic platforms.  You rationalize that your child has lots of friends and that they will stand up for them in a bullying situation.  Do they?  What is the role of the bystander/friend during a bullying incident?</p> Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:29:02 +0000 webfull 139118 at /channels /channels/channels/news/global-project-reduce-health-inequalities-cities-around-world-284536 <div><span>A major new research partnership has been launched to explore ways of reducing health inequalities in cities around the world.</span></div> <div> </div> Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:02:58 +0000 webfull 134836 at /channels /channels/channels/news/were-not-addicted-smartphones-were-addicted-social-interaction-284522 <p>We all know people who, seemingly incapable of living without the bright screen of their phone for more than a few minutes, are constantly texting and checking out what friends are up to on social media.</p> <p>These are examples of what many consider to be the antisocial behaviour brought on by smartphone addiction, a phenomenon that has garnered media attention in the past few months and led  investors and consumers to demand that tech giants address this problem.</p> <p>But what if we were looking at things the wrong way? Could smartphone addiction be hyper-social, not anti-social?</p> Tue, 06 Feb 2018 16:56:53 +0000 webfull 134821 at /channels /channels/channels/news/high-cost-short-term-rentals-new-york-city-284310 <div>A <a href="//mcgill.ca/newsroom/files/newsroom/channels/attach/airbnb-report.pdf">new report</a> from ƽ���岻�� Urban Planning professor <a href="/urbanplanning/people-0/wachsmuth">David Wachsmuth</a> and his team provides an analysis of Airbnb activity in New York City and the surrounding region in the last three years (September 2014 - August 2017). Relying on new methodologies to analyze big data, here are <span>some of the findings:</span></div> <div> </div> Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:15:15 +0000 webfull 134584 at /channels /channels/channels/news/american-cities-large-hispanic-populations-are-less-likely-police-police-283398 <p><span>How individual police forces treat those that they suspect of being illegal immigrants varies greatly from one city to the next in the U.S. In Albuquerque, New Mexico, the police department has a policy that states clearly, “Officers shall not stop, question, detain or arrest any person on the ground that they may be undocumented and deportable foreign nationals.” But this is unusual. Local police departments across the U.S. have become increasingly involved in enforcing federal immigration laws since the mid-1990s.</span></p> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:53:03 +0000 webfull 133584 at /channels /channels/channels/news/do-birdsong-and-human-speech-share-biological-roots-282972 <p>Do songbirds and humans have common biological hardwiring that shapes how they produce and perceive sounds?</p> <p>Scientists who study birdsong have been intrigued for some time by the possibility that human speech and music may be rooted in biological processes shared across a variety of animals. Now, research by ƽ���岻�� biologists provides new evidence to support this idea.</p> Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:05:29 +0000 webfull 132987 at /channels /channels/channels/news/illustrious-chinese-architect-invests-future-education-landmark-12-million-gift-transform-teaching-270601 <p> Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:58:14 +0000 webfull 131453 at /channels /channels/channels/news/claudia-mitchell-named-pierre-elliott-trudeau-foundation-fellow-270414 <p><em><span>By Meaghan Thurston</span></em></p> <p><span>Professor Claudia Mitchell was in an Ethiopian airport on her way to Russia when she received an email from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation asking her to give them a call. With no phone in sight, Mitchell waited anxiously until landing some hours later to learn that she had garnered a prestigious Fellowship. “They said, ‘you clearly walk the talk because you are traveling from one girl-led project to another’”.</span></p> Tue, 19 Sep 2017 13:10:40 +0000 webfull 131214 at /channels /channels/channels/news/mcgill-duo-honoured-royal-society-canada-270397 <div><span>The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) announced today that <strong>Professor Michel Tremblay</strong> (Department of Biochemistry and the Director of the ƽ���岻�� Cancer Institute) has been awarded the McLaughlin Medal for important research of sustained excellence in medical science. Recognized for his leading-edge work on the role and function of particular enzymes in the development of cancer, Professor Tremblay is among the 12 Canadian researchers honoured with an RSC medal or award this year. Also among the RSC 2017 award winners is <strong>Dr.</strong></span></div> Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:05:39 +0000 webfull 131212 at /channels /channels/channels/news/airbnbs-impact-canadian-housing-markets-269333 <p> Thu, 10 Aug 2017 19:00:23 +0000 webfull 129761 at /channels /channels/channels/news/playing-your-brain-269271 <p>Human-computer interactions, such as playing video games, can have a negative impact on the brain, says a new Canadian study published in <em>Molecular Psychiatry</em>. For over 10 years, scientists have told us that action video game players exhibit better visual attention, motor control abilities and short-term memory. But, could these benefits come at a cost?</p> Tue, 08 Aug 2017 13:29:44 +0000 webfull 129555 at /channels /channels/channels/news/costs-associated-homelessness-are-high-suggesting-need-shift-programs-end-homelessness-269176 <p> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 19:07:46 +0000 webfull 129428 at /channels