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Thursday, March 3 · 6:00pm – 8:30pm Room 13, McConnell Engineering Building McGill University Montreal, QC

Join Kyle Matthews, lead researcher of the Will to Intervene Project, at the Will to Intervene: Democratic Republic of Congo conference on March 3rd.

The topic of discussion will be the policy failures of Canadian … Read More >

What you may have missed this week at the MQUP…

Charles Foran reads Merrily Weisbord.

Sailor's Hope is the 2010 recipient of the Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation's Publication of the Year Award.

Five principles for teaching journalism ethics … Read More >

Canada's History looks at Done with Slavery by Frank Mackey and A Fleeting Empire by Andrew D. Nicholls. 

"A Fleeting Empire takes a hard look at a subject that usually gets but fleeting attention — the short-lived British takeover of New France from … Read More >

PBS's Mediashift is featuring Stephen Ward's "5 Principles for Teaching Journalism Ethics in the Digital Age." Ward is the author of Global Journalism Ethics and The Invention of Journalism Ethics.

"Our global media ecology is a chaotic landscape evolving at a furious pace. Professional journalists share the journalistic sphere … Read More >

Sailor's Hope by Rusty Bittermann is the 2010 recipient of the Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation's Publication of the Year Award. The Lieutenant Governor of PEI, the Honourable Barbara A. Hagerman, will present the awards at 7:00 pm this evening, at the Charlottetown at Beaconsfield's Carriage … Read More >

Photo courtesy of The Globe and Mail

Charles Foran, Charles Taylor Prize winner, pictured reading Merrily Weisbord's The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das.

"Right now I’m enjoying Merrily Weisbord’s The Love Queen of Malabar. … Read More >

What you may have missed this week at the MQUP…

We're hosting a Cold War Gallery and are inviting you to submit your own pictures. Best one wins a copy of The Cold War Tourist and His Camera!

John S. Long at Read More >

McGill-Queen's is currently hosting a Cold War Tourist gallery.

A Cold War Tourist and His Camera by Martha Langford and John Langford is an illustrated history of their father’s cold war world tour as an incidental tourist and student of the Canadian National Defence College.

Click to view some … Read More >

To get us through the winter blahs, our lovely assistant production manager has been spoiling  us with baked goods.

Now you too can enjoy her treats by reading her very tasty baking blog, La petite abeille.

 The Globe and Mail has published an excerpt of There's Always Something to Do: The Peter Cundill Investment Approach by Christopher Risso-Gill.

One evening in December 1973 Peter Cundill boarded a flight from Toronto to Vancouver to return home for Christmas. He was nursing a monumental hangover and … Read More >