University Affairs
[timeline_excerpt]Beginning in 1951, McGill’s intermediate athletics teams in football and basketball started being referred to as the “McGill Indians.” In the 1960s, the men’s hockey team adopted the same name while the women’s team was referred to the “Squaws,” a slur referring to a hyper-sexualize caricature of Indigenous women. This use of anti-Indigenous slurs as […]
[timeline_excerpt]Translated into 321 languages and dialects, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10 1948 and represents the first global expression of a set of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled. While the declaration is not legally binding, its articles have been elaborated […]
[timeline_excerpt]During the 1930s, social scientist Leonard Marsh conducted research studying the effects of class and the Great Depression on social life. His work in advocating for a ‘social minimum’ is credited with catalyzing the development of the Canadian welfare state. While Marsh became the head of the McGill Social Science Research Group in 1930, his […]