undefined /newsroom/taxonomy/term/3761/all en McGill aims to be a world leader in making dentistry sustainable /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-aims-be-world-leader-making-dentistry-sustainable-360624 <p>In response to growing concerns about climate change, 㽶Ƶ researchers are exploring how even a routine dental visit can become a more sustainable practice</p> <p>The Faculty of Dental Medicine and Oral Health Sciences is calculating the carbon footprint of its entire operation, including several clinics that serve the public. The goal is to become among the first fully sustainable dental faculties in the world.</p> Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:21:00 +0000 keila.depape@mcgill.ca 314742 at /newsroom GLOBE & MAIL | Palliative-care advocate Kappy Flanders helped develop a blueprint for a good death /newsroom/channels/news/globe-mail-palliative-care-advocate-kappy-flanders-helped-develop-blueprint-good-death-323232 <p>Petite, fierce and focussed, Kappy Flanders became a warrior for palliative care because she wanted people to understand that dying was a part of living, as important a passage as being born, and something that could not be brushed aside because the thought of it was distasteful or frightening.</p> <p>After all, as she once told a 㽶Ƶ interviewer, “everyone is terminal at some point.”</p> <p><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-palliative-care-advocate-helped-develop-a-blueprint-for-a-good-death/">Read more</a><br />  </p> Sun, 12 Jul 2020 13:34:26 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 223879 at /newsroom CBC THE CURENT | Students raise $30,000 to thank health-care workers with 'a good, decent meal' /newsroom/channels/news/cbc-curent-students-raise-30000-thank-health-care-workers-good-decent-meal-321554 <p>A group of medical students in Montreal have raised about $30,000 to deliver hot meals to health-care workers — in turn helping to support the local restaurants preparing them.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-april-13-2020-1.5530725/students-raise-30-000-to-thank-health-care-workers-with-a-good-decent-meal-1.5530900">Read more</a></p> <p> </p> Mon, 13 Apr 2020 20:55:42 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 208174 at /newsroom Expert: Black Friday shopping /newsroom/channels/news/expert-black-friday-shopping-302921 <p>Black Friday is just around the corner, but Black Friday deals are already here. While the exact date of the North American shopping extravaganza this year is Nov. 29, many retailers have turned what used to be a weekend of special deals into a weeks-long marathon of advertising and price-slashing. (<a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/6182752/black-friday-2019-canada-shopping-tips/" target="_blank">Global News</a>)</p> <p>Here is an expert from 㽶Ƶ that can provide comment on this issue:</p> Wed, 27 Nov 2019 21:33:56 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 189342 at /newsroom