Every year, McGill is required to submit an audit to the Quebec government detailing the university’s spending, the salaries of upper administration, and performance reports, among other things. From ...

Press freedom, often described as a cornerstone of democracy, is under visible strain in 2025. On battlefields, journalists are being killed for documenting conflicts. In democratic settings, ...

Student activism is a necessary function of the modern university. Though the history of student-led demonstrations can be traced all the way back to medieval universities in the 15th century, the ...

Coming to power after sixty years of the Assad family’s dictatorship in Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa and his interim government have a lot of work to do ...

Scientists and public health experts are sounding the alarm about the broad and intensifying consequences of extreme wildfires. “Smoke knows no political boundaries — and neither does fire,” said ...

One-on-one mentoring? Networking events and research opportunities? For women and minorities in STEM, the Scientista mentorship program offers the chance to get your foot in the door to the world of ...

The Green Update is a bi-monthly/monthly column focusing on recent info related to climate change and the environment. Innovations, policy decisions, green models to follow, anything that can shape ...

On March 27, 2025, the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) convened a Special Strike General Assembly (SGA) to deliberate on the “Motion Regarding a Strike in Support of Palestinian ...

Across Canadian universities, sexual harassment of students by professors is slowly becoming a central and very public issue. An investigation by Le Devoir reveals that a number of reported cases of ...

Last week, a fictional rat very nearly became the incumbent president of the University of British Columbia’s student union. Coming in second place and winning five of six head-to-heads against other ...

Common criticisms of “canon” scholarly reading lists include the following: they are only composed of works from ancient, stuffy men, they include only Euro-centric perspectives, and they completely ...

My favourite movie of 2024 is Look Back. It’s an animated film about two girls who draw comics together, discovering the strength and resilience of art along the way. It was my top movie of the year ...