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��Ǿ�Ʒ�� research flags Montreal snow dump, inactive landfills as major methane polluters

kay.pettigrew@mcgill.ca — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 21:23:26 +0000

Montreal’s methane emissions are unevenly distributed across the island, with the highest concentrations in the city’s east end, ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� researchers have found. The worst polluters include the city’s largest snow dump, which emits methane at levels comparable to the city's current and former landfills, and natural gas leaks.

How should Montreal’s high schools be reformed?

claire.loewen@mcgill.ca — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:04:20 +0000

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.

Experts: Impact of transit construction on travel behaviour and health of Montreal residents

shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 21:57:56 +0000

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 ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� are inviting commuters to participate in the Montreal Mobility Survey.

Here are experts that can provide comment on the preliminary results:

��Ǿ�Ʒ�� recognized as one of Montreal's Top Employers for 2019

laurie.devine@mcgill.ca — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:34:19 +0000

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 ��Ǿ�Ʒ��, were announced on January 31, 2019 in a special magazine published in the Montreal Gazette. This is the 11th year in a row ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� has been included in the annual list.

Montreal and ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� Become Blue Communities

jessica.goodsell@mcgill.ca — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:15:38 +0000

The Ville de �ѴǲԳٰ�é�� and ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� 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, ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� has become the fourth university in the world to obtain this certification.

Teens suffer more concussion during the World Cup

vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 14:08:45 +0000

��Ǿ�Ʒ�� 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.

Isabelle Gagnon, Professor, School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, ��Ǿ�Ʒ��

��Ǿ�Ʒ�� recognized as one of Montreal's Top Employers for 2018

laurie.devine@mcgill.ca — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:31:12 +0000

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 ��Ǿ�Ʒ��, were announced on February 1, 2018 in a special magazine published in the Montreal Gazette. Here are some of the reasons why ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� was selected as one of Montreal's Top Employers (2018):

Imagining the cities of the future through a better understanding of Montreal today

priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 19:45:15 +0000

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?

Experts: Municipal elections

vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:36:58 +0000

Here are ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� researchers available and interested to comment on the municipal elections in Montreal:

Richard Shearmur, School of Urban Planning, ��Ǿ�Ʒ��

Professor Shearmur is an urbanist who studies innovative municipalities, urban and regional development, and real estate.

richard.shearmur [at] mcgill.ca (English, French)

��Ǿ�Ʒ��, Concordia team up to create 'net zero energy' home

laurie.devine@mcgill.ca — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:53:54 +0000

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 ��Ǿ�Ʒ�� 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.

World Health Day and Diabetes (April 7, 2016)

vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 19:46:03 +0000

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. April 7, 2016 is World Health Day and the focus this year is on diabetes.

Montreal blue collar workers suspended

vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:21:03 +0000

"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: CBC)

Montreal budget 2016

vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 21:17:56 +0000

"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: CBC)

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