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Genocide Is Foundational to Canada: What Are We Going to Do About It? June 26, 2019

For too long, political scientists in Canada have been bystanders to discussions about cultural genocide and genocide. By Prof. David MacDonald, Political Science and Research Leadership Chair, College of Social and Applied Human Sciences

Angela Mulholland

Federal Minister of Health Visits U of G, Tours OVC June 25, 2019

Federal Minister of Health Ginette Petitpas Taylor visited the University of Guelph today with Guelph MP Lloyd Longfield to learn about research and teaching on campus. Meeting with president Franco Vaccarino and Daniel Atlin, vice-president (external), they discussed U of G strengths in One Health, an interdisciplinary approach for solving public health issues by focusing […]

Rob O'Flanagan

Veterinarians Without Borders on Week-Long Study Tour at U of G June 24, 2019

Members of Veterinarians Without Borders (VWB) will be on the U of G campus this week as part of a study tour. Twelve international members of the group will participate. They will learn about veterinary practices from U of G faculty and visit the University’s research farms. The animal health professionals have worked with VWB […]

Rob O'Flanagan

CBC Arts Celebrates Career of U of G’s Dionne Brand June 24, 2019

University of Guelph English and Theatre Studies Prof. Dionne Brand was featured in a CBC Arts article celebrating 69 LGBTQ artists who changed Canada before and after 1969 — the year many consider the beginning of the gay rights movement. The article calls Brand “one of Canada’s best living poets” and said she is also “a […]

Angela Mulholland

Lab-Grown Dairy: The Next Food Frontier June 24, 2019

Lab-grown meat is getting a lot of attention along with plant-based meat substitutes, but dairy proteins may be the next product produced in a lab. By Prof. Michael von Massow and Mitchell Gingerich, graduate research assistant, Department of Food, Agriculture and Resource Economics

Angela Mulholland

Globe and Mail Speaks With U of G Conservation Experts June 24, 2019

How big does a natural habitat need to be in order to be worthy of conservation? That’s a question a weekend article in The Globe and Mail investigated, citing the expertise of two U of G researchers. The article examined the debate about whether conservation efforts should be concentrated in large tracts of land such […]

Angela Mulholland

Economics Prof Pens Column for Financial Post on Carbon Taxes June 21, 2019

Prof. Ross McKitrick with the Department of Economics at the Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics contributed an editorial this week to the Financial Post about Canada declaring an environmental emergency over climate change. McKitrick co-authored a new report by the Fraser Institute about how to evaluate the economic cost of carbon taxes versus the […]

Angela Mulholland

U of G Board Chair Kevin Golding Completes Term June 21, 2019

On June 21, Kevin Golding chaired his last meeting of the University’s Board of Governors. Chair since 2015, Golding is among the University’s longest-standing governors, having served the Board for more than a decade. Golding said U of G is a fantastic institution with a great future. President Franco Vaccarino expressed his appreciation for Golding’s […]

Jenna Hennessy

U of G Policing Expert Offers Insight on Toronto Gun Violence June 21, 2019

University of Guelph political science professor Kate Puddister offered insight in a Toronto Star article about the shooting that took place during the Toronto Raptors victory parade earlier this week. The article looked at the problem of handgun ownership and the Toronto police’s recent gun buyback program to reduce the number of guns on the streets. Puddister commented that there’s […]

Angela Mulholland

‘Bold and Beautiful’ Campus Architecture on Show in New Library Exhibit June 21, 2019

There’s beauty in concrete? Ask Wilfred Ferwerda, co-curator of a new University of Guelph Library exhibit about the concrete building boom of the late 1960s that reshaped the look and feel of a then-fledgling campus and that continues to define today’s U of G. “Brutalism at Guelph: Concrete in a new light” opens June 21 […]

Andrew Vowles