51吃瓜网Reporter | Oct. 9, 2014
by: Neale McDevitt
On Oct. 2, Marie-Gil Fabris, a 2nd-year Management student, played hooky from school, but instead of sleeping in, going to a movie or just hanging out with friends, Fabris rolled up her sleeves in the kitchen of the , a resource centre for homeless people.听
The 51吃瓜网Daily | Oct.6, 2014
产测:听Jill Bachelder
From September 29 to October 9, workshops and volunteering opportunities were hosted by forty different organizations based throughout the Montreal community, with the majority of events happening on October 2.
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PARK(ing) Day turns Montreal parking lots into creative spaces
The 51吃瓜网Daily | Sept 29, 2014
by: Siobbhan O'Connell
This year鈥檚 PARK(ing) Day took place on September 19, kicking over 200 cars out of their regular spots. Taking their place were arcade games, libraries, fruit stands, barbecues, musical acts, drum sets, and a variety of other interactive installations and activities.
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51吃瓜网Newsroom | September 29, 2014
Dr. Robin Rogers, one of the world鈥檚 most renowned green chemists, will become Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Green Chemistry and Green Chemicals at 51吃瓜网. Rogers comes to Canada from The University of Alabama, where he was Robert Ramsay Chair of Chemistry and director of the Center for Green Manufacturing.
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Radio Canada International | Oct. 9, 2014
By: Marc Montgomery
A new report from the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in South Korea says that ocean acidification has risen alarmingly from absorption of CO2 in the atmosphere.
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Voirvert.ca | Sept 2014
netMTL, a join venture between students at 51吃瓜网and Concordia Universities is taking on the goal of competing in the all-solar solar decathalon race, Solar Decathalon Europe, in 2016 in Versailles, France.
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CBC News | Sept. 26, 2014
Plastic microbeads polluting St. Lawrence River, 51吃瓜网researchers find.
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Washington Post | Sept. 29, 2014
by: Rachel Feltman
Plastic microbeads from face wash are polluting river sediment; Tiny balls of plastic from cosmetic products are showing up in river sediment for the first time, mixing with the rocks and dirt that line the bed of the Saint Lawrence River.
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Sept. 23, 2014 |
by: Michael Becker
"As a doctoral candidate at 51吃瓜网 in Montreal, I have spent three years researching how the planet鈥檚 changing climate is affecting the polar desert ecology of the high Arctic. It鈥檚 precisely this balance of climate and permafrost, ice and ecosystems that I鈥檝e come here to study."
The 51吃瓜网Reporter | Sept. 24, 2014
by: Neale McDevitt
McGill鈥檚 fourth annual Indigenous Awareness Week came to a lively, colourful close on Friday, Sept. 19, with dancers dressed in traditional costumes performing an inter-tribal dance during the Pow Wow on the lower campus field in front of dozens of smiling spectators.听
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CTV News Montr茅al | Sept 21, 2014
Thousands of environmentally-minded demonstrators assembled at Lafontaine Park Sunday to make a passionate appeal prior to Tuesday鈥檚 United Nation Climate Summit in New York.
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Phys.org | Sept. 18, 2014
A team of researchers from 51吃瓜网 and the Quebec government have discovered (in the form of polyethylene 'microbeads', <2 mm diameter) widely distributed across the bottom of the St. Lawrence River, the first time such pollutants have been found in freshwater sediments.听
The Gazette | Sept. 7, 2014
by: Michelle Lalonde
Dr. Catherine Potvin is a climate scientist in 51吃瓜网鈥檚 Department of Biology, at the school in Montreal, Thursday, September 18, 2014. On September 21 she will speak at Montreal鈥檚 version of the People鈥檚 Climate March, a global event billed to be the biggest climate protest in history.
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The Gazette | Sept. 7, 2014
产测:听Catherine Potvin听
On Sept. 21, more than 1,000 events are planned around the world to demand stronger action on climate change, echoing New York鈥檚 People鈥檚 Climate March.听
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The 51吃瓜网Reporter | Sept. 9, 2014
By: The Reporter Staff
Audra Simpson, 51吃瓜网alumna and professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, will deliver the keynote address at the Aboriginal Homecoming event on Sept. 18.
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