KAMLOOPS MATTERS | Raptors' run captures Montrealers' imagination, fuels city's own hoop dreams
Montreal is shutting down two downtown blocks tonight to allow people to cheer on a team from the city's traditional bete noire: Toronto. The very notion would have seemed far-fetched, until Monday night.
NATIONAL POST | Syringes, IV tubing, saline bags, packaging: Canada's hospitals couldn't function without single-use plastics
Syringes, IV tubing, saline bags, plastic-wrapped drugs, catheters — hospitals couldn’t function without plastics. While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pledge to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021 may have noble intentions, not all plastics are evil, experts say.
MEDICAL PRESS | Biomarker indicates tumor aggressiveness and poor prognosis in men with prostate cancer
Mortality due to prostate cancer is usually related to its likelihood to metastasize, especially to bone. Prognostic biomarkers are urgently needed to predict disease aggression so that appropriate treatment can be selected.
THE GUARDIAN | Hit the mute button: why everyone is trying to silence the outside world
Last month, the taxi company Uber began trialling a suite of new features for users of its Exec service – including a button you can activate if you want to mute your driver. “Quiet preferred” is the euphemism Uber is using (you can also toggle it to “happy to chat” – lucky driver). But it appears to bring the dream of being able to choose who and what we listen to a step closer.
MONTREAL GAZETTE | Why we vaccinate babies against hepatitis B
There is a common perception that hepatitis B is a disease of adults, transmitted via sexual intercourse or needles. If that were the case, vaccinating babies would be nonsensical.
NATIONAL POST | Canadian MDs to restart hearts of the recently dead as new source of donor hearts
Doctors in Canada are preparing to restart the hearts of the recently declared dead, a move experts say will lead to a desperately needed new source of donor hearts.
But that raises an ethically fraught question: How can you be dead if your heart is still beating?
GLOBAL NEWS | Montrealers cheer for Toronto Raptors on Peel Street
Thousands of Montrealers are out on Peel Street Monday night doing the unthinkable: cheering for a Toronto sports team.
“Let’s go Raptors” and “We the North” cheers could be heard for several blocks around the downtown area, where a portion of Peel Street is closed to become Montreal’s own Jurassic Park.
CTV | Couples struggling to conceive are better off not smoking pot
Men and women who smoke marijuana could be adding to their infertility woes if they are already struggling to start a family, says an obstetrician-gynecologist who is calling for more research into reproductive aspects of the recreational drug that may be increasingly used in Canada since it was legalized.
GLOBAL NEWS | Entomologists fear urban beekeeping could be putting wild bees at risk
Some entomologists are sounding the alarm that native bees could be in danger of being wiped out, because of the popularity of urban beekeeping.
“The danger is that we’re probably losing species and don’t even know it,” says Gail MacInnis, a PhD entomology candidate at McGill University. Something needs to be done, she says, to control the number of honeybees being raised.
THE SUBURBAN | McGill's Elliot Lifson, Amanda Abrams honoured for teaching excellence
Elliot Lifson, Professor of Practice and Desautels Faculty Advisory Board member at McGill University, was honoured for teaching excellence at the university’s Desautels Faculty of Management Convocation ceremony last week.
CBC | 'She's still living, in some sense': McGill computer scientist's app Opal wins award, days after her death
When Laurie Hendren found out she had breast cancer in 2014, she wanted to learn everything she could about her condition, but she soon realized how hard it is for patients to access their own medical information. The McGill University computer science professor, who had dedicated her career to research and sharing knowledge, shared her intense frustration with her radiation oncologist, Dr. Tarek Hijal.
THE TORONTO STAR | Canada's changing climate - Open for business
n 2007, a team of mining executives and geologists prospecting about 540 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay hit a motherlode of high-grade nickel, copper, platinum and palladium in the 2.7-billion-year-old rock. The area the dozers and graders could soon be heading into is a vast but delicate carbon reservoir that cleans the air we breathe and helps to regulate the temperature of the planet.
MONTREAL GAZETTE | EpiPens are not used enough in severe allergic reactions, study shows
The study, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, shows clearly for the first time that epinephrine in a pre-hospital setting is superior to antihistamines, lead author Dr. Moshe Ben-Shoshan, a pediatric allergist and immunologist at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, said in an interview Thursday.
In most cases, antihistamines are used in place of epinephrine, “but epinephrine should always be first.”
YAHOO | INFINITI Announces Top 10 Canadian Finalists for the 2019 INFINITI Engineering Academy
Recruitment for the 2019 INFINITI Engineering Academy closes on a high note with another Canadian student registration record. 10 finalists from across Canada will compete next week to secure one of the seven, one-year placements with INFINITI and Renault F1® Team. The two-day finals will take place on June 5th and 6th in Montreal, trackside prior to the FORMULA 1 PIRELLI GRAND PRIX DU CANADA 2019. One of the finalists is Thomas Lee from McGill University.
YAHOO NEWS | In the Americas, right to learn a second language gains support
“In the 21st century with so much internationalism, we really need to be giving all children the opportunity to learn another language,” says Fred Genesee, an expert on dual-language education in Canada at McGill University in Montreal. “We’re not talking about icing on the cake anymore. We’re talking about a life skill that actually gives these kids a real advantage.”
