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Founded in Montreal, Quebec, in 1821, McGill University is Canada’s top ranked medical doctoral university. McGill is consistently ranked as one of the top universities, both nationally and internationally. It is a world-renowned institution of higher learning with research activities spanning two campuses, 11 faculties, 13 professional schools, 300 programs of study and over 40,000 students, including more than 10,200 graduate students. McGill attracts students from over 150 countries around the world, its 12,800 international students making up 31% per cent of the student body. Over half of McGill students claim a first language other than English, including approximately 19% of our students who say French is their mother tongue.

Fondée en 1821, à Montréal, au Québec, l’Université McGill figure au premier rang des universités canadiennes offrant des programmes de médecine et de doctorat. Elle se classe parmi les meilleures universités au Canada et dans le monde. Institution d’enseignement supérieur de renommée mondiale, l’Université McGill exerce ses activités de recherche dans deux campus, 11 facultés et 13 écoles professionnelles; elle compte 300 programmes d’études et au‑delà de 40 000 étudiants, dont plus de 10 200 aux cycles supérieurs. Elle accueille des étudiants originaires de plus de 150 pays, ses 12 800 étudiants internationaux représentant 31 % de sa population étudiante. Au‑delà de la moitié des étudiants de l’Université McGill ont une langue maternelle autre que l’anglais, et environ 19 % sont francophones.

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Maps can be a tool in the defense of Indigenous communities against extractive industries. Canadian Centre for Architecture; Grant Tigner, painter. Seagrams Limited, publisher. The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project, in The St. Lawrence Seaway: The Realization of a Mighty Dream, 1954.

Using maps as a weapon to resist extractive industries on Indigenous territories

Sébastien Caquard, Concordia University; Annita Lucchesi, University of Lethbridge; Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, McGill University; Leah Temper, McGill University, and Thomas Mcgurk, Concordia University

Historically, western corporate maps have been privileged over Indigenous ones. But given the essential debate of territory in resource conflicts, maps are a crucial tool.
Deux hommes portent des chaises le long d'une rue envahie d'eau de crue, à Rigaud, à l'ouest de Montréal, dimanche 21 avril 2019. La Presse Canadienne/Graham Hughes

Inondations: pourra-t-on faire mieux la prochaine fois?

Philippe Gachon, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM); Danielle Maltais, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC); raphoz.marie@uqam.ca, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM); Suzanne King, McGill University, and taha.ouarda@ete.inrs.ca, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)

Les inondations causent de lourds dommages tant économiques, sociaux qu'environnementaux, en plus d'avoir des effets sur la santé physique et psychologique des sinistrés.
Plusieurs découvertes faites par des femmes dans les sciences de la vie sont ignorées ou reconnues trop tard. Le Canada est loin de la parité hommes-femmes en sciences. Shutterstock

Comment assurer une parité hommes-femmes dans les sciences de la vie ?

John Bergeron, McGill University

Plusieurs découvertes faites par des femmes dans les sciences de la vie sont ignorées ou reconnues trop tard. Le Canada est loin de la parité hommes-femmes en sciences.
Premier François Legault, left, and Simon Jolin-Barrette, minister of immigration, diversity and inclusiveness, are seen at the provincial legislature in late March 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot

The supposed benefits of Québec secularism bill don’t outweigh the costs

Efe Peker, McGill University

While few would deny secularism and religious neutrality are legitimate goals, they don’t justify Bill 21’s undue restriction of minority rights.
A girl takes her tuberculosis medication under the supervision of a health worker in Himachal Pradesh, India. (WHO/M.Grzemska)

A human-rights approach is essential to end the global TB epidemic

Madhukar Pai, McGill University

Tuberculosis kills more people globally than any other infectious disease. A human-rights approach and investment in quality care are essential to ending the global epidemic.
Seulement le tiers des scientifiques dans le monde sont des femmes, mais cette proportion chute brutalement pour celles issues des pays d'Afrique francophone. Shutterstock

Chercheuses, francophones, et issues de pays en développement: il est temps d'abattre les barrières !

Lara Gautier, Université de Montréal; Catherine M. Jones, London School of Economics and Political Science; Kadidiatou Kadio, Université de Montréal; Muriel Mac-Seing, Université de Montréal, and Samiratou Ouédraogo, McGill University

Seulement le tiers des scientifiques dans le monde sont des femmes, mais cette proportion chute brutalement pour celles issues des pays d'Afrique francophone.
Women have contributed to some of the biggest discoveries in the life sciences, but remain under-acknowledged. Shutterstock

Closing the gender gap in the life sciences is an uphill struggle

John Bergeron, McGill University

Women have made life-changing research discoveries in the life sciences. Their achievements need to be recognized in order to increase future discoveries by women scientists.
On Jan. 15, 2019, the House voted 416-1 for a resolution to reject Congressman Steve King’s words about why terms like ‘white nationalist’ and ‘western civilization’ are offensive. Here a June 2018 file photo on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Memo to Iowa congressman: Western civilization was never just western

Jason Opal, McGill University

“Western civilization” has always been tangled up with Africa, Asia and the Americas. In other words, there never was a West without the Rest.
Les chimistes sont généralement représentés dans l’imaginaire comme des scientifiques fous, faisant de la magie noire et des explosions. Pourtant, les produits chimiques sont à la base du monde qui nous entoure. Shutterstock

Cinq idées fausses sur la chimie… et les chimistes!

Alexandra Gellé, McGill University

La chimie est un formidable domaine de connaissance, de découverte et un puissant outil de transformation. Pourquoi les produits chimiques, présents partout, suscitent-ils tant de méfiance?
In the 19th century, white families in the U.S. could easily acquire real estate. This was never the case for Black Americans. U.S. National Archives

The myth of the American Frontier still shapes U.S. racial divides

Jason Opal, McGill University

Old 19th-century agreements between the U.S. government which expelled Indigenous peoples from their land and gave it cheaply to white settlers continue to impact inequalities in the United States.
People march against pipelines in Smithers, B.C. in May 2014. Francois Depey/Office of the Wet'suwet'en

Is the next Standing Rock looming in northern B.C.?

Leah Temper, McGill University

The We'suwet'en First Nation is fighting the Coastal GasLink pipeline project, which would stretch nearly 700 kilometres across northern B.C. through their unceded land.
Ontario PC leadership candidate Tanya Granic Allen arrives to participate in a debate in Ottawa in February 2018. Granic Allen was supported by the Campaign Life Coalition (CLC), and the organization said it recruited more than 9,000 PC memberships in support of her campaign to became the premier of Ontario. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

From America to Ontario: The political impact of the Christian right

André Gagné, Concordia University and Andréa Febres-Gagné, McGill University

Christian right groups in Canada may not have the same resources as their American counterparts. They are, nonetheless, attracting supporters by borrowing some U.S. tactics.

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