/newsroom/taxonomy/term/2549/all en /newsroom/channels/news/how-should-montreals-high-schools-be-reformed-345533 <p>If you could redesign high school, what might you change? Like most educational institutions across Canada, Montreal’s English high schools retain structures from the time of the industrial revolution. As the realities of students’ lives have transformed, schools are slowly adapting to a knowledge-based economy and unpredictable ecological and social challenges.</p> Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:04:20 +0000 claire.loewen@mcgill.ca 288654 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-impact-transit-construction-travel-behaviour-and-health-montreal-residents-302565 <p>Montreal is undertaking a major overhaul of its transportation networks and services, with major projects like the Réseau express métropolitain (REM) and the Pie-IX bus rapid transit (BRT) underway. To examine the impacts of projects that are under-construction on the travel behaviour and the health and well-being of Montreal residents, researchers at UUֱ�� are inviting commuters to participate in the <a href="https://surveys.mcgill.ca/ls/815441">Montreal Mobility Survey</a>.</p> <p>Here are experts that can provide comment on the preliminary results:</p> <p> </p> Tue, 12 Nov 2019 21:57:56 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 188188 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-university-recognized-one-montreals-top-employers-2019-293921 <p>First published in 2006, �ѴDzԳٰ�é����'s Top Employers is an annual competition organized by the editors of Canada's Top 100 Employers. This special designation recognizes the employers in Greater �ѴDzԳٰ�é���� that lead their industries in offering exceptional places to work. This year's winners, including UUֱ��, were announced on January 31, 2019 in a special magazine published in the Montreal Gazette. This is the 11th year in a row UUֱ�� has been included in the annual list.<br /> <br /></p> Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:34:19 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 138213 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/montreal-and-mcgill-university-become-blue-communities-295634 <p>The Ville de �ѴDzԳٰ�é���� and UUֱ�� today received Blue Community certification on the occasion of World Water Day. To obtain this certification, they have undertaken to recognize water and sanitation as human rights, to promote publicly managed water services and to ban or phase out the sale of bottled water in their buildings and at their events. Hence Montreal has joined some forty Blue Communities worldwide, including major cities like Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Victoria. For its part, UUֱ�� has become the fourth university in the world to obtain this certification.</p> Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:15:38 +0000 jessica.goodsell@mcgill.ca 153382 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/teens-suffer-more-concussion-during-world-cup-287710 <p><span>UUֱ�� professor Isabelle Gagnon and colleagues have recently shown that the number of teenagers in the Montreal area who were admitted to the emergency room because of injuries caused during an improvised soccer game had experienced peaks during World Cups organized between 1999 and 2014.</span></p> <p><strong><a href="/spot/isabelle-gagnon">Isabelle Gagnon</a>, Professor, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, UUֱ��</strong></p> Fri, 15 Jun 2018 14:08:45 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 45479 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-university-recognized-one-montreals-top-employers-2018-284380 <div>First published in 2006, �ѴDzԳٰ�é����'s Top Employers is an annual competition organized by  the editors of Canada's Top 100 Employers. This special designation recognizes the employers in Greater �ѴDzԳٰ�é���� that lead their industries in offering exceptional places to work. This year's winners, including UUֱ��, were announced on February 1, 2018 in a special magazine published in the Montreal Gazette.</div> <div> </div> <div>Here are some of the reasons why <strong>UUֱ�� </strong>was selected as one of <em>Montreal's Top Employers (2018)</em>:</div> <div> </div> Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:31:12 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 32918 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/imagining-cities-future-through-better-understanding-montreal-today-282750 <p>Montreal, with its multilingual, multiethnic population, is an ideal living laboratory for researchers and students from the city’s four universities and many specialized research centres. How can Montreal be designed to better accommodate the needs of its children? What measures need to be put in place to accommodate people of different cultures and religions living in close proximity? How is the city’s nighttime economy different from that of the daytime and what are the implications?</p> Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:45:15 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32678 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-municipal-elections-278057 <p>Here are UUֱ�� researchers available and interested to comment on the municipal elections in Montreal:</p> <h3><a href="/urbanplanning/people/shearmur">Richard Shearmur</a>, School of Urban Planning, UUֱ��</h3> <p>Professor Shearmur is an urbanist who studies innovative municipalities, urban and regional development, and real estate.</p> <p><span class="spamspan"><span class="u">richard.shearmur</span> [at] <span class="d">mcgill.ca</span></span> (English, French)</p> Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:36:58 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 32389 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-concordia-team-create-net-zero-energy-home-269911 <p>Imagine a household that produces as much if not more electricity than it consumes. Now imagine that home in Montreal — harsh winters and all. That’s what a group of students and staff from Concordia and UUֱ�� universities is working toward. Students from undergraduate to PhD levels are teaming up to build what is called a “net zero energy” home. Then next year, the residence will be transported to China, where it will go up against other solar-powered housing models from around the world in a competition called a solar decathlon.<br /></p> Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:53:54 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 32218 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/world-health-day-and-diabetes-april-7-2016-260192 <p>About 422 million people worldwide have diabetes, a number likely to more than double in the next 20 years, according to research published today by the World Health Organization. <span><a href="http://www.who.int/campaigns/world-health-day/2016/en/">April 7, 2016 is World Health Day </a>and the focus this year is on diabetes.</span></p> Wed, 06 Apr 2016 19:46:03 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 25678 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/montreal-blue-collar-workers-suspended-257282 <p>"Nearly 2,400 Montreal blue collar workers including union leadership will face sanctions for leaving work to attend a union meeting last week after they were ordered to remain on the job. " (Source: <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/blue-collar-workers-president-suspended-montreal-1.3363631">CBC</a>)</p> Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:21:03 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 25029 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/montreal-budget-2016-257018 <p>"The City of Montreal's 2016 budget includes another increase in residential property taxes, a smaller increase in non-residential property taxes and an increase in overall expenditures of 2.4 per cent." (Source: <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-budget-property-tax-spending-2015-1.3335958">CBC</a>)</p> Wed, 25 Nov 2015 21:17:56 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 24891 at /newsroom