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McGill convicted murderer did not have fair process, his lawyer says • Nov. 6, 2026, 9:25 PM ET (CTV News)
Murderer no longer enrolled, McGill says as it launches review of admissions procedures • Nov. 3, 2026, 3:21 PM ET (The Montreal Gazette)
73-year-old Kanien'kéha speaker is McGill’s 1st PhD in Indigenous language revitalization • Nov. 2, 2026, 3:00 AM ET (CBC)
Study discovers shared vocal patterns between birds and humans • Oct. 30, 2026, 2:41 PM ET (News-Medical)
Birds and humans share fundamental song and speech patterns, study finds • Oct. 29, 2026, 2:00 PM ET (Phys.org)

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Date 1821 - present
Notable Alumni Charles Taylor • Sir William Osler, Baronet • Louis Dudek • Francis Reginald Scott • Justin Trudeau • Wilfrid Laurier • William Shatner • Jack Layton • Conrad Black • Tom Mulcair • John O’Keefe • Zbigniew Brzezinski • Steven Pinker • Jack W. Szostak • Peter Wilkinson Howitt • Moshe Safdie • Louis Nirenberg • Timothy Parsons • Robert Thirsk • Vaira Vike-Freiberga • Julie Payette • Willard Boyle • Jay Macpherson • Leon Edel • David Hunter Hubel • Charles H. Goren • Val Logsdon Fitch • Andrew V. Schally • A.M. Klein • Rudolph A. Marcus • Jacob Viner • A.J.M. Smith • Irving Layton • Sir John Abbott • S.I. Hayakawa • Charles Richard Drew • Frederick Mark Becket • Dame Elizabeth Kathleen Lane
Related People James McGill

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