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The six-month spaceman
Robert Thirsk taking part in a press conference in Kazakhstan, shortly before embarking on his six month space mission last year. (Canadian Space Agency) He has boldly gone where precious few Canadians...
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The importance of place
Architecture professor Avi Friedman worries that we’re so focused on making our surroundings purposeful, we’re forgetting how to infuse them with the charm required to make them livable Architecture...
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The unexpected terrorists
Mia Bloom, BA'89, is an expert on terrorism. Mia Bloom, BA’89, is an associate professor of international studies and women’s studies at Penn State. She is also a fellow at that university’s...
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Looking Back On Laurier
As an award-winning editor and journalist at La Presse in Montreal, André Pratte knows politics inside out. Pratte’s biography of Canada’s first French-Canadian prime minister, Wilfrid Laurier, has...
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A doctor for the dying
Dr. Balfour Mount is widely considered the father of palliative medicine in Canada. Originally a McGill-trained urologic surgical oncologist, he found a new calling in the early seventies. In 1973, he...
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Three Takes on These Troubling Times
by Sylvain Comeau Headlines have been supplying no shortage of economic gloom recently, with financial markets whipsawing wildly in response. Some nations teeter on the brink, while others debate the...
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Her bout with the blues
She might be known as one of the country’s toughest journalists, but Jan Wong, BA’74, was surprised to discover that didn’t afford her any protection from a devastating bout of depression – one that...
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The battle for the White House
Gil Troy is a professor of history at McGill and an expert on U.S. politics and the history of American presidential campaigns. Sylvain Comeau recently approached Professor Troy for his thoughts on the...
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A unique perspective on power
There is little doubt that John Ralston Saul, BA69, DLitt’97, has led an intriguing life, from his early business accomplishments (he helped Maurice Strong set up Petro Canada), to his more recent...
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Dumb beasts? Hardly
Virginia Morell, MA’73, believes that animals have rich and complex inner lives and she says that science is firmly on her side. A widely published science journalist (National Geographic, Smithsonian,...
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What’s so funny about being Jewish?
In 45 years of teaching, Ruth Wisse, BA’57, PhD’69, has earned numerous accolades, though perhaps none as fitting as when the celebrated novelist and critic Cynthia Ozick labeled Wisse “the Grand...
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Rethinking Canada’s place in the world
Former Canadian prime minister Joe Clark is involved with McGill’s Institute for the Study of International Development (Photo: Michelle Valberg) Former prime minister Joe Clark has been taking stock...
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Language lovers tackle the Story of Spanish
The Story of Spanish authors Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoît Nadeau Journalists Jean-Benoît Nadeau, BA’92, and Julie Barlow, BA’91, are partners in every sense. The Quebec francophone and Ontario...
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The crisis in Ukraine: Is the Cold War back?
Soldiers, believed to be Russian, ride on military armoured personnel carriers on a road near the Crimean port city of Sevastopol on March 10. (Photo: Baz Ratner/Reuters) In recent weeks, the world’s...
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Where is Canada’s Breaking Bad?
By Gary Francoeur Some prominent observers have recently raised questions about whether Canadian TV producers can create characters as enduring as Mad Men’s Don Draper or Breaking Bad’s Walter White...
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The one and only Honora
Honora Shaughnessy has led McGill’s efforts in alumni relations for 19 years (Photo: Claudio Calligaris) It’s not easy to keep a secret from Honora Shaughnessy, MLS’73. The woman has built up a...
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Fact-checking with Dr. Joe
Joe Schwarcz is the director of McGill’s Office for Science and Society and a fellow who has very little patience for misrepresentations of scientific facts. by Tim Hornyak, BA’95 If you like checking...
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Out of the closet and onto the ice
by Gary Francoeur Labonte won Olympic gold for the fourth straight time at the Sochi Games (Photo: Vincent Graton) Canadian hockey goalkeeper Charline Labonté, BEd’12, has some news to share: she’s...
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Meet the MAA’s new president
by Gary Francoeur New MAA president Alan Desnoyers has McGill on his mind. (Photo: Allen McInnis) Alan Desnoyers, BCom’85, the new incoming president of the McGill Alumni Association (MAA), is nothing...
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Offering comfort to the disorganized and distracted
McGill psychology professor Daniel Levitin’s new book, The Organized Mind, is a best-seller in both Canada and the U.S. (Photo: Arsenio Corôa) Do you ever have trouble keeping your focus? Do you find...
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