In Ghana, Grace Marquis is exploring the relationship between infant health, HIV-positive mothers and breast milk. And it's not what you think. By Andrew Mullins When one thinks about infant mortality due to malnutrition, chances are good that archetypal media image of famine spring to mind: the pictures of children…
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Interview with the Right Honourable Joe Clark By James Martin Joe Clark's deep relationship with the people of Africa began when, as Prime Minister of Canada, he visited Cameroon while en route to the 1979 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Zambia. In 1984, as Canada's Secretary of State for…
By Andrea Evans “Morochos! Morochos! Morochos?” Yes, yes, I nod, I am going to the Morochos. He must be no more than 14, this boy recruiting passengers for a bus. Unlike the Greyhound in Canada, the buses in Ecuador are full-service, with freshly made treats delivered to your seat priced…
By Jim Hynes Cue the piper, cue the ceremonial procession, and cue the sunshine. The grey skies that threatened the first (and only open-air) ceremony of Spring Convocation cleared up just in time, bathing the officers of Convocation, the friends and family of the graduating students, and the new Macdonald…
Another voice, another bridge? The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is currently considering an application to distribute Al Jazeera English (AJE), the Qatar-based, 24-hour international news network, in Canada. On April 28, Media@McGill will host a panel discussion focusing on what the presence of AJE would mean for the diversity…
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…