Our annual McGill Reads holiday reading list celebrates this, its fifth year, in real fashion, with a thought-provoking selection of great reads as suggested by University students, staff, faculty and administrators.
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With 2016 drawing to a close, it is time for the Reporter’s annual Year-End Quiz. While other quizzes will, no doubt, focus on global events of a tumultuous year unlike any other in recent memory, ours will highlight the last 12 months at McGill.
This, the fourth iteration of our annual McGill Holiday Reading List, has once again inspired an impressive pan-McGill response from students, staff, faculty and upper administrators; and from Mac to the downtown campus. This year, contributors listed books they hope to read as well as some of their favourites as suggestions for others to pick up.
November 11 is the traditional day when Canadians stop to reflect on the sacrifice of the men and women who gave their lives in the name of freedom. But our campus also has daily reminders of their valour and loss. A new photo exhibition, currently on display in the main floor lobby of the James Administration Building, tells the story of how the McGill community’s aching need to remember the...
Over the past year McGill’s Social Equity and Diversity Education Office (SEDE) hired a trio of Education students who have since been leaving their mark on our community and the University. Teyesha Mullick, Carmen Villa and Rachel Zellars of the Department of Integrated Studies in Education each have different roles with SEDE and with the community, but, in an interview with the Reporter each of them had plenty to say...
Anne Applebaum is a foreign affairs columnist for The Washington Post and Slate and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. She is also one of three finalists for the Cundill Prize for Historical Literature. She recently spoke to the McGill Reporter about her work, literary prizes and how understanding history gives us added insight into the world today.