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“The creation of world class cities comes at extremely high human costs.”Sarah Moser, director of the urban studies program at McGill who headed the study.

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Published on: 19 Oct 2016

Episode 3 of TVO documentary “Striking Balance” tells the story of the history of Mont St. Hilaire and surrounding area, includingMcGill - Gault Nature Reserve - Mont St. Hilaireand the people involved in its conservation, including McGillians in the Monteregie Connection project.

Classified as: Gault Nature Reserve, Mont Saint-Hilaire, TVO Docs
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Published on: 19 Oct 2016

Op-ed by Robert Leckey, the dean of the Faculty of Law and the Samuel Gale Professor at 㽶Ƶ.

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Published on: 18 Oct 2016

«For the past three years, the Ecofiscal Commission has been analyzing and proposing policies for Canada to address climate change. We take stock of recent policy announcements by considering the following six essential elements of an economically efficient climate policy.»Commentary by Christopher Ragan, an economics professor at 㽶Ƶ.

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Published on: 17 Oct 2016

Article byRomola Adeola,Steinberg Postdoctoral Fellow in International Migration Law, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism at theFaculty of Law.

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Published on: 13 Oct 2016

Two students from McGill,Marianne Falardeau-Côté andAlan Chen, are featured in this list.

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Published on: 13 Oct 2016

“Some of them are more theologically astute than others and some of them are more faithful to the church’s teaching than others."Douglas Farrow, professor of Christian thought at McGill.


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Published on: 11 Oct 2016

Victoria Talwar, associate professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychologyat 㽶Ƶ, has done a number of studies on lying — most recently looking at how children from different age groupsevaluate hurtful lies, harmless lies, tattling and confessions.

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Published on: 11 Oct 2016

Prominent Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor,㽶Ƶ professor emeritus,has been named the first-ever recipient of the Berggruen Prize.

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Published on: 6 Oct 2016

“Metformin lowers the rate of living,” Dr. Michael Pollak, a cancer oncologist at 㽶Ƶ in Montreal and author on a 2013 paper that reached this conclusion, told me recently.

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Published on: 6 Oct 2016

We cannot build what we cannot imagine. Creating visions of positive futures is important work. And this is only the beginning- we hope to open up to a much wider visioning process. And of course, seeds of a better future won’t make a difference unless they can grow and be widely distributed. - Elana Bennett, ecosystem ecologist and geographer at 㽶Ƶ.

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Published on: 6 Oct 2016

The end of September saw the formation of a new team of rivals: the Partnership on AI, whose motto is "to benefit people and society". The partnershipincludes tech giants Amazon, Google and its subsidiaryDeepmind, Facebook, IBM andMicrosoft.

Classified as: ethics, Microsoft, IBM, Artificial intelligence, Google, Facebook, data science in the news, Amazon, Deepmind
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Published on: 3 Oct 2016

Op-ed co-authored by Jean Monnet chair in the law of international economic integration at McGill.«Airplanes in international flight are responsible for at least 2 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions – a considerable volume given that it’s the only form of emissions delivered directly at high altitude into the atmosphere.

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Published on: 3 Oct 2016

“The PQ’s discourse isn’t resonating among 18- to 34-year-olds. For Generation Y, support for the party is collapsing,” said political scientist Éric Bélanger of 㽶Ƶ, who co-wrote the study with Valérie-Anne Mahéo of the Université de Montréal.

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Published on: 3 Oct 2016

㽶Ƶ Prof. Kirsten Anker, who specializes in aboriginal peoples and the law, visited Akwesasne in May with a delegation from a Manitoba Cree community that was interested in the Mohawk system.“It’s being looked at as a model and a source of inspiration,” she said, adding the Akwesasne Mohawks are “at the forefront in pushing the self-government envelope.”

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Published on: 3 Oct 2016

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