Mind & Body
“Does my teen need help?”
The McGill Daily’s Nadja Popovich looks at abuse in “tough love” rehabilitation facilities for teens.
In 2006, Martin Anderson, a 14-year-old Florida teenager, died at a “boot camp” for troubled teens. When a video surfaced showing a group of guards repeatedly attacking ...
Malaysian chef Nantha Kumar may be eccentric, but that in no way detracts from the quality of his cooking; in fact, some might even say it’s where the green curry gets ...
All Hopped Up: Old world beer in New France
If, somehow, beer culture was a religion – and the zealous, prophetical, and dogmatic sides of the industry do exist – Belgium would be the holy land. Of the places on ...
Empathetic mice feel each other’s pain
It was a crisp autumn morning, the kind we get in Montreal two weeks before the winter freeze. The stairs were glistening with dew, and as I enthusiastically took ...
Patients have a heart to heart
It’s a little-known fact that congenital heart defects affect one out of every hundred infants in Canada. Specialty camp opportunities are numerous for kids with ...
We all know how important vegetables are for the proper functioning of the human body, but most of us try to resist this fact. Some of us even consciously rebel against ...
Simply Tasty: Imbiber’s banana loaf
You will need an assistant to cook this recipe, to finish the bottle of beer. You could do it yourself, but we all know the perils of operating a hot oven while drunk. ...
Introducing the newest fast food innovation; the Col-Pop. Designed by the Korean fast food chain BBQ Chicken, the Col-Pop is a cup of cola with a miniature container ...
The ins and outs of egg donation
The Assisted Human Reproduction Act of 2004 put many of our science fiction nightmares to rest: thanks to the act, Canada will never legally create an army of clones; ...
All hopped up: The holy Saint Patrick
According to the Catholic News Agency, Irish bishops moved Saint Patrick’s Day from today to March 15 last June because March 17 falls on holy week this year. ...
Out of the shtetl and into the world
I have recently made a controversial move: I fell in love. And although he is not a Montague, nor I a Capulet, and although neither of us are members of the Jets or ...
Deverell urges women to help women
Those who defy racial and gender barriers to ascend to seats of power have a responsibility to help others follow, according to prominent director and broadcaster ...
Simply Tasty: The Tombari family secret is pizza
This pizza recipe was brought over from Italy when my great-grandparents immigrated to Canada in 1915. My great-grandmother taught it to her French-Canadian ...