OCTOBER 31, 2017 |聽Prof. Laila Parsons was among the exceptional educators celebrated at Convocation.
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Published on: 26 Jun 2019
OCTOBER 27, 2015 | A $3.4 million gift from McGill alumnus and long-time university supporter, Dr. Yan P. Lin, PhD鈥�92, will establish the Yan P. Lin Centre for the Study of Freedom and Global Orders in Ancient and Modern Worlds.
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Published on: 26 Jun 2019
NOVEMBER 30, 2015 |聽Research to bring together faculties of Arts and Engineering.
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Published on: 26 Jun 2019
The Mellon grant will support a new Indigenous Studies and Community Engagement Initiative, to be based in the Faculty of Arts
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a US$1.25-million grant to 香蕉视频, in support of a new Indigenous Studies and Community Engagement Initiative. The Initiative will be implemented over the next five years.
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Published on: 14 Jun 2019
MAY 16, 2019 |聽As Alabama criminalizes abortions, a number of Canadian politicians have been loudly expressing support for anti-abortion groups and their agendas but some political scientists say women鈥檚 reproductive rights are well-protected here. Stephanie Paterson, an associate professor of political science at Concordia University, says there will always be anti-abortion politicians spouting off but she believes women鈥檚 rights are enshrined in the Charter of Rights.
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Published on: 12 Jun 2019
MAY 13, 2019 |聽Last week, parliamentary hearings began on Quebec鈥檚 Bill 21, which would ban public employees in 鈥減ositions of authority鈥� from wearing religious symbols. In his testimony, the philosopher Charles Taylor stated that he and G茅rard Bouchard were wrong to propose restrictions on religious symbols in聽their 2008 report聽on reasonable accommodation.
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Published on: 12 Jun 2019
MAY 12, 2019 |聽Politicians are increasingly concerned that social media giants have become so big, powerful and rich that they are effectively above the law -- at least in a small country like Canada. Their concern was on display last week at a meeting of the House of Commons access to information, privacy and ethics committee, where Liberal MPs raked Google over the coals for its decision not to run any political ads during this fall's federal election campaign, rather than comply with a new law that requires them keep an online ad registry.
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Published on: 12 Jun 2019
MAY 7, 2019 | We know that the prevalence of autism has risen steadily in Quebec, and across the world, as awareness and identification have improved, as have concerns about the availability of both diagnostic and intervention services. Autism is here to stay. Over the past two decades, consecutive governments have struggled to find a policy response to this condition 鈥� better understood as a spectrum 鈥� that defies typical policy definitions. Autism cuts across health, education and social policies in its complexities, and so too do the services and programs needed to address it.
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Published on: 12 Jun 2019
MAY 27, 2019 |聽Sam Hunter set out to go camping near his home on Weenusk First Nation, about 35 kilometres south of Hudson Bay in Ontario鈥檚 Far North. After spending a night in the bush, Hunter, who has lived on this land for most of his 53 years, went to look for dry wood. As he drove across what appeared to be a frozen river, the surface suddenly gave way and his Yamaha Bravo snowmobile plunged through the ice. Hunter was thrown through the windshield and barely avoided falling into the rushing water below.
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Published on: 12 Jun 2019
JUNE 5, 2019 |聽For the first time in the history of Quebec, the provincial government has no senior ministers and only two elected representatives from the island of Montreal, and it shows. Nothing makes this more evident than Bill 21, the secularism law proposed by the Coalition Avenir Qu茅bec (CAQ) government that is especially contentious for banning certain public workers from wearing religious symbols. Notable among them are teachers and school principals, police officers, judges, Crown prosecutors and prison guards.
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Published on: 12 Jun 2019
The Human Resources Office in the Faculty of Arts is pleased to announce the latest updates to Administrative and Support Staff positions within the Faculty. Join us in聽wishing your colleagues well in their new roles.
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Published on: 12 Jun 2019
JUNE 2, 2019 |聽Arash Abizadeh鈥檚 monograph, 鈥淗obbes and the Two Faces of Ethics,鈥� has been awarded the 2019 Canadian Philosophical Association Biennial Book Prize (English). The jury writes that 鈥淭his is an outstanding book, one of the best books on early modern philosophy in the past 10 years.
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Published on: 6 Jun 2019
MAY 30, 2019 | As violence against Indigenous women and girls grows, a national inquiry into the causes is drawing to a close, with a report expected on June 3.
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Published on: 30 May 2019
MAY 20,聽2019 |The University of Lethbridge recently聽recognized the work of Dr. Cindy Blackstock, a professor of social work at 香蕉视频, by presenting her with an honorary degree at the University鈥檚 2019 Spring Convocation ceremonies. Blackstock has spent her career speaking out against the systemic inequalities of services provided to First Nations children, youth and their families and, in the process, become a powerful advocate for Indigenous children in Canada.
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Published on: 28 May 2019
MAY 15, 2019 |聽Taylor Owen, McGill's Chair of Media, Ethics and Communication says the barriers to effectively moderate extreme online content are both technical and political. The tragic Christchurch live-streamed video is prompting further action from world leaders.
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Published on: 28 May 2019
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