Speaking for the missing or murdered

“There’s a real push this year to bring awareness to the issue of missing and murdered women across this country,” said Eden Alexander, a first-year McGill Law student and a member of McGill’s Aboriginal Law Association. The group recently organized a series of events under the name 13 Days to Honour Aboriginal Women to shed some much-needed light on the subject.

The Arctic

(This story also available in PDF format.) To understand climate change, we must understand the Arctic. McGill University’s polar researchers are focused on building a sustainable, healthy future for the people, land and resources of Canada’s North—and the rest of the planet. McGill University’s relationship with the North goes back…

Grave Hunters

McGill researchers are using remote sensing technology to unearth the secrets of war criminals.

École Polytechnique: Mourning is not enough

On December 6, 1989, 14 women were killed at École Polytechnique. They were killed because they were women, because they were students in an engineering program. What has come to be called the Montreal Massacre is an event we are all called upon to remember: violence against women continues to be part of our present.