By Abby Lippman Nineteen years ago, on Dec. 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…
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By Laurie Devine Broken Canadian English An article in the Toronto Star questions whether the increasing use of spell-checkers and online dictionaries could lead to the loss of Canadian English spelling. Interviewed for the story, McGill linguistics expert Charles Boberg said there’s a possibility but wondered whether it’s anything to…
Dynamic duo McGill Faculty of Law professors combined for a potent one-two punch as they took two of the three top prizes of the prestigious Prix de la Fondation du Barreau du Québec in June. Professor Robert Leckey won the prize in the category “Best Article” for a paper he…
By Grace Egeland With the start-up of the second year of the International Polar Year (IPY) Inuit Health Survey, I reflect over the work ahead while en route to Inuvik in northern Northwest Territory, a two-day plane ride from Montreal. When we were planning for this voyage in 2006, the…
By Chris Chipello Hundreds of times a year, a group of 10 to 20 people files out of the Welcome Centre in Burnside Hall and begins a one-hour trek around the main campus. The groups are composed of curious high-school students – many from the U.S. or abroad – and…