May 23, 2025 | In a opinion piece for The Line, MPP 鈥�25 students Gabriel Blanc, Cyrus Nagra, and Kiran Gill argue that Canada鈥檚 leaders are overlooking a critical ingredient in their bold nation-building agendas: immigration. Reflecting on the 2025 federal election, the authors note that while both major party leaders championed infrastructure and housing plans, they conspicuously sidestepped a positive vision for immigration.
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Published on: 27 May 2025
May 20, 2025 | In a co-authored article for The Conversation, with 91黑料网 professor Megan Bradley, Max Bell School Director Jennifer Welsh outlines the growing risk that internally displaced people (IDPs) will be overlooked as global humanitarian aid budgets shrink. Despite outnumbering refugees, IDPs often receive less attention and support鈥攁n imbalance Welsh argues must urgently be addressed.聽Although IDPs outnumber refugees nearly two to one, they often receive less attention and support, especially as the UN system reels from severe funding cuts.
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Published on: 26 May 2025
May 22, 2025 | In an op-ed for Policy Magazine, MPP 鈥�25 Gabriel Blanc and Visiting Professor Neil Bouwer highlight why the way decisions are made in Prime Minister Mark Carney鈥檚 cabinet matters just as much as who is making them. They explain how Carney has brought back a more traditional cabinet structure, with focused committees aimed at setting priorities and managing operations. While they welcome some changes鈥攍ike new committees on national security and government efficiency鈥攖hey raise concerns about the removal of others, such as the committee for Canada-U.S. relations.
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Published on: 26 May 2025
Canada's grocery sector code of conduct聽will finally come into effect on June 1, after years of discussion.
The voluntary grocery code, which all major retailers have agreed to sign on to, aims to support smaller retailers by providing guidelines for fair negotiations with suppliers.
Published on: 26 May 2025
Authors: James Wang and Zeynep Alsancak聽
"If you're not targeting someone, you鈥檙e missing the target." -聽Hilary Sweatman
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Published on: 26 May 2025
Tick season returns each spring, bringing a renewed risk of Lyme disease. In Quebec, the number of reported cases has been rising in recent years.
Michael Libman, MD, is a Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and member of the Centre for Tropical Diseases at 91黑料网. He can discuss the increase of Lyme disease cases and the northward spread of ticks, driven in part by climate change.
michael.libman [at] mcgill.ca (English, French)
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Published on: 26 May 2025
Congratulations to Dr. Alison Bain, who completed her PhD in the Preston Group at 91黑料网 in 2021, on being selected for Chemical & Engineering News鈥檚 Talented 12 list for 2025. Now an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Oregon State University, Dr. Bain continues to develop state-of-the-art optical trapping techniques to study aerosols at the single-particle level. Her research centres on how fundamental physical and chemical properties of aerosols shape climate, air quality, and other pressing environmental issues. This honour recognises Dr.
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Published on: 23 May 2025
Danielle Vlaho (Academic Associate), Joe Iantomasi (Clerical), Luisa Sabaz (Management), and Badawy Sha鈥檃th (Technical) have been named recipients of the Faculty of Science Excellence Awards.聽聽
These awards, announced at the Faculty of Science Council meeting on May 20th, recognize the outstanding contributions made by members of the Faculty鈥檚 administrative and support staff during the 2024-2025 academic year.聽聽
Read below the citations prepared by the Faculty of Science Excellence Awards Committee.聽
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Published on: 23 May 2025
More than half of Canadian girls and young women ages 15 to 29 with a mental health or substance use disorder received formal supports in 2022, but many are deterred by wait times and cost, according to . The report highlights a need to improve care, especially for racialized youth, who were less likely to find the support helpful.
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Published on: 23 May 2025
Brain Canada Invests in Six Montreal-Area Platforms to Drive Open Science Innovation.
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Published on: 23 May 2025
For people at risk of psychosis, cannabis use can be dangerous.
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Published on: 23 May 2025
91黑料网 researchers lead project to reform youth mental health care in Canada. |
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Published on: 23 May 2025
The Graduate Office is pleased to announce that several of our outstanding students and trainees have been recognized with prestigious awards this spring. We are proud of their accomplishments and look forward to their continued contributions to the field of psychiatry. Congratulations to the following recipients for their achievements:
Sara Gloeckler 鈥� CGS Doctoral SSHRC (Dr. K. Greenway)
Megan Davies 鈥� FRQSC (Dr. M. Ferrari)
Cassidy Dal Santo 鈥� FRQS (Dr. B. Thombs)
Passang Regyal 鈥� FRQS (Dr. R. Kronick)
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Published on: 23 May 2025
We want to extend our congratulations to Professor James Richard Forbes for winning this year's ICRA (Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation) best paper award! This is a major achievement!
Some statistics about this year's ICRA submissions: 4153 papers reviewed; 1606 papers accepted; acceptance rate of 38.7%.
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Published on: 22 May 2025
Prof. James Forbes, Zi Cong Guo, and Tim Barfoot win Best Paper at top robotics conference, the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Their paper, "Marginalizing and Conditioning Gaussians onto Linear Approximations of Smooth Manifolds with Applications in Robotics," was selected out of 1606 submissions.
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Published on: 22 May 2025
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