McGill University

Canadian universities need repair but are short of the money required to mend historic buildings and upgrade antiquated facilities. Across the country, the total cost was as high as $17.2 billion in 2019.

Fewer international students, half-full residences, shuttered food services and empty parking lots add up to devastating revenue losses. And public funding has fallen over the past decade. Universities are in for a reckoning.

New cases of HIV are rising dramatically in Canada. And self-testing kits are nearly as easy to use as a home pregnancy test.

The school’s dedication to research and new initiatives helps its influence stretch far beyond its home campus

An insider’s guide to the best place to study, hangover breakfast and more

Exciting McGill initiatives include virtual-reality spinal surgery and a program that reduces stress in first-year students

Where to find the best place to study, cheap lunch, favourite watering hole and more

Faculty join call for a ban on relationships between staff and students, among other changes

Evan Solomon wrote to McGill with pointed questions about how it handled the Andrew Potter affair. The answers did not impress.

A national group representing academic staff raises questions over Andrew Potter’s resignation

University of Waterloo professor Emmett Macfarlane on why McGill’s public distancing of itself from a scholar is a problem

Can universities crack down on disgusting initiation rituals if students don’t want to stop?