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Omid Zobeiri, 28, is an Iranian citizen who began working on his doctorate in biomedical engineering in September 2015 at 㽶Ƶ in Montreal. His mentor and supervisor at McGill moved to Johns Hopkins last summer and hoped to take Mr. Zobeiri with her so he could continue the research he had begun in her laboratory.

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Published on: 31 Jan 2017

A year ago this week, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal released the landmark Caring Society decision, which found that the federal government had discriminated against First Nations children by providing insufficient funding for First Nations child and family services. It also found that the federal funding structure for these services incentivized removing children from their homes, thus perpetuating historical disadvantages against Aboriginal peoples, mainly through the Residential Schools system.

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Published on: 30 Jan 2017

Literacy goes beyond the ability to read the words on this page. Every day, we use reading and writing skills to get information, express ourselves, solve problems and stay connected with the world. Literacy is essential in almost every aspect of modern life and increasingly, we are we are reading and writing with digital tools —cellphones, tablets and computers.

Op-ed by Susan Rvachew,professor at theSchool of Communication Sciences and Disorders atMcGill

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Published on: 27 Jan 2017

So if I, say, declare that “the sky is blue,” and you respond “the sky is a ham sandwich,” the real problem is not that I am speaking truth and you are uttering alt-facts (or, more simply, lying). The real issue is that we are no longer two humans speaking a common language. We have been reduced to two bipedal mammals making guttural utterances at one another. We might as well be hooting at the trees and beating our chests.

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Published on: 27 Jan 2017

After marveling at the ability ofBarbados bullfinches to snatch food from humans’ plates, Jean-Nicolas Audet, a doctoralcandidate at Canada’s 㽶Ƶ, was inspired to study them. Audetcomparedrural and urban bullfinches on the island and found the city birds had bettercognitive abilities and problem-solving skills.

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Published on: 26 Jan 2017

Laurent Duvernay-Tardif of the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs (and a fourth year medical student at 㽶Ƶ) says professional sports now employ spotters to watch for players with concussion symptoms. "They're starting now to coach and teach more and more the rugby tackling style, where you get your head out of the contact and you tackle with your chest and shoulders and you avoid those hits to your head," said Duvernay-Tardif.

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Published on: 25 Jan 2017

Ontario’s cap-and-trade system is now in force and is the focus of much debate. Amidst all of the discussion, there is plenty of rhetoric, hyperbole, and questionable statements. Some of these have grown into large and scary myths which need to be debunked.

Commentary byChristopher Ragan, associate professor of economics at 㽶Ƶ and the Chair of Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission.

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Published on: 24 Jan 2017

"I think democracy depends on a sense of what I call "citizen efficacy" in a large number of people - a sense that there's somewhere you can go, some levers you can push, some votes you can make, and that revivifies democracy. Just think back eight years. What was the great slogan of Obama's campaign? It was "Yes we can"...When that goes, a real kind of panic takes over, a real sense that it's getting worse, out of control, it'll go on getting worse." - Charles Taylor,professor emeritus of philosophy

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Published on: 23 Jan 2017

Jacob Levy, a political science professor at㽶Ƶ, told Global News he watched Trump’s inauguration address with deep disappointment and skepticism.

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Published on: 23 Jan 2017

Globalization, new technologies and a bewildering pace of change have exponentially increased the complexity of our world. We currently have intractable problems, such as climate change, income inequality and food security. University students will be on the front lines of dealing with these challenges.

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Published on: 19 Jan 2017

“In the last half century the American presidential transition has been a timeout, a moment for the combativeness and divisiveness of campaigns to be buried,” said 㽶Ƶ history professor Gil Troy, author of 11 books on the U.S. presidency.
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Published on: 18 Jan 2017

Dr. Alain Brunet, from Montreal’s 㽶Ƶ, has a much cheaper, faster treatment to propose. For over a decade, he’s used propranolol, a beta-blocking drug, to decrease patients’ emotional response to fearful memories.


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Published on: 17 Jan 2017

Many advances in treatment have been made, but a cure is still desperately needed and that’s the focus this month — Alzheimer’s Awareness Month. Dr. Serge Gauthier, a world-renowned researcher and the director of the Alzheimer’s disease research unit at the 㽶Ƶ Research Centre for Studies in Aging joined senior anchor Jamie Orchard to talk about the illness.

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Published on: 16 Jan 2017

Martin Luther King, Jr. may be best known for his message, but it's his music that helped make a disciple of 㽶Ƶ professor and Grammy-nominated musician John Hollenbeck. Hollenbeck, who teaches drums, composition and improvisation with McGill's jazz department, says the baptist preacher and civil rights leader was "a great musician" in the way he used cadence, tone and melody when he spoke.
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Published on: 16 Jan 2017

“You can’t plug Donald Trump into your forecasts, but you can plug in a bunch of things as risks,” said Chris Ragan, associate economics professor at 㽶Ƶ in Montreal and former adviser to the Bank of Canada and the finance department. “What happens if he puts tariffs in imported goods? What happens if he cuts corporate taxes? Another one is what happens if he massively spends on infrastructure.”

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Published on: 13 Jan 2017

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