July 2, 2019聽| In this article published in the McGill Alumni magazine, Joel Yanofsky tells the story of the creation of the Max Bell School, from the historic $10 million gift that started it all to the development of an MPP program that aims to bridge the gap between thinking about policy and making it.
The article features interviews with Max Bell School MPP teaching faculty member Kevin Page, as well as Advisory Board Co-Chair Christie Clark, and three students of our incoming inaugural MPP class.
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Published on: 4 Jul 2019
According to McGill's Christopher Ragan, for doctors across Canada, the evidence at the bedside is increasingly hard to ignore: climate change poses a serious health risk.
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Published on: 2 Jul 2019
Experts are skeptical about how all the experimental city-building techniques will fare in the real world, and they wonder what the consequences will be if one or more of the new technologies doesn鈥檛 work as intended.聽Multiple experts in urbanism across North America who spoke to the Financial Post all essentially said the same thing: They鈥檙e curious to see how the Sidewalk Toronto project plays out, but they鈥檇 be fighting the idea if it were happening in their backyard, because it gives too much control of city life to a private company, or because most people don鈥檛 want to live inside an
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Published on: 2 Jul 2019
Daniel Levitin, a behavioral neuroscientist聽at 香蕉视频, said that when people try to pay attention, they tend to pay attention to several different things at once. These interrupted thought processes can have a tangible (and negative) neurological effect on the brain.
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Published on: 2 Jul 2019
A Montreal-based research team has shown that the composition of the microbiome, the complex mixture of microorganisms that populate our gastrointestinal tract, is altered in people with fibromyalgia.聽Their paper was published online聽this month in the journal Pain and will appear in print.
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Published on: 26 Jun 2019
Alain Brunet, a psychologist who has studied PTSD for decades, has developed a therapy to heal what he calls 鈥渞omantic betrayal鈥�.
In his聽lab聽at 香蕉视频 in Montr茅al, Canada, Brunet studies victims of 鈥渞omantic betrayals鈥� using reconsolidation therapy, a method combining medical treatment and therapy sessions. And it works: 70 to 84 per cent of the participants in a study Brunet concluded in November 2018 have experienced relief following their post-break-up stress.
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Published on: 26 Jun 2019
Africa鈥檚 population is projected to nearly quadruple over the next century1. And that is following a staggering increase over just seven decades 鈥� from 200 million people in 1950 to 1.25 billion in 20182.聽
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Published on: 26 Jun 2019
JUNE 24, 2019 |聽Taylor Owen, an expert in the political impact of digital technologies, warns that the social media infrastructure is to blame for the spread of fake news and political interference.聽"What's wrong with this infrastructure is that it is calibrated for engagement," he says. Taylor Owen's segment on a special news report for The National can be found here.
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Published on: 26 Jun 2019
June 25, 2019 |聽Online interference is happening in the run-up to Canada's fall federal election. CBC News looked at who's behind it and what you can do to stop it. The interview featured Taylor Owen, Max Bell School professor and Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics,聽and Communications. Taylor Owen spoke about how the design of our digital infrastructure聽and social media platforms are manipulable when it comes to election campaigns and political speech.聽
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Published on: 25 Jun 2019
While Montreal鈥檚 numerous festivals provide ample opportunity for fun during the summer, they can also have a negative impact on the environment. A Montreal marine biologist is behind a new project aimed at reducing the amount of plastic in the oceans.
Rachel Labbe-Bellas, McGill almuni, has teamed up with Evenko to bring聽The Green Stop, an environmentally-friendly water refill stations, to this year鈥檚 Osheaga.
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Published on: 25 Jun 2019
Just over 300 homes that were being rented on Airbnb full time were likely returned to Vancouver鈥檚 long-term rental market in the first four months of the city鈥檚 new regulations coming into force, according to new research from 香蕉视频.
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Published on: 25 Jun 2019
A room full of Cree students wearing red celebrated their graduation from 香蕉视频 Saturday in Pikogan, Que., with a lot of emotion, pride and a deep commitment to strengthening the Cree language and culture, one child at a time.
They were part of a large graduating class of close to 60 students 鈥� more than 45 of them with a 60-credit teaching certificate in First Nations and Inuit Education, Language and Culture from McGill's Department of Education.
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Published on: 25 Jun 2019
Lobster bisque and shrimp cocktail make for scrumptious meals, but at a price. The food industry generates 6 million to 8 million metric tons of crab, shrimp and lobster shell waste every year. Depending on the country, those claws and legs largely get dumped back into the ocean or into landfills.聽In many of those same landfills, plastic trash relentlessly accumulates.聽Some scientists think it鈥檚 possible to tackle the two problems at once.聽
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Published on: 20 Jun 2019
May 23, 2019 | Taylor Owen,聽Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communication at the Max Bell School of Public Policy, writes that the Christchurch Call might be a missed opportunity for governments to move toward global digital governance. He says " [the Christchurch Call] has no enforceable mandates, it focuses overwhelmingly on technical fixes to what are also political, social and economic problems and its framing around terrorism and hate speech is far too narrow, treating the symptom of the problem while ignoring the underlying disease."
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Published on: 19 Jun 2019
Until Victor Vescovo landed his submersible there recently, no human had been to the seabed鈥檚 deepest point at the very bottom of the fearsome Mariana Trench, nearly 11 km below the surface of the Paci铿乧 Ocean.聽But Vescovo found more than shy marine life and vast untouched landscapes in the ocean鈥檚 most remote trough. Within minutes of reaching bottom, he also found trash.
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Published on: 19 Jun 2019
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