Monique’s story: a life cut short by a silent killer Tara Simonetta Mann April 5, 2021 1366 Monique Girard-Solomita led a happy, adventurous life. A journalist with Le Journal de Montreal for thirty years, the proud Lac Saint-Jean native travelled the world, reporting on stories in countries from Chin...
MCI and MUHC Foundations join forces to help Montrealers breathe easier Tara Simonetta Mann March 16, 2021 281 For nearly sixty years, the Montreal Chest Institute (MCI) Foundation has played a vital role in raising much-needed funds to help patients living with complex and chronic respiratory conditions to breathe easi...
Women’s Healthy Heart Initiative: saving lives one woman at a time Tara Simonetta Mann February 14, 2021 404 When Cheryl Bertoia had a heart attack at age 53, she was in denial. “I refused to accept that it happened because I was only 53 and I was not overweight, I did not have high blood pressure or cholesterol. T...
New Antimicrobial Resistance Centre will tackle humanity’s greatest threat Tara Simonetta Mann January 5, 2021 893 Alongside health threats like COVID-19 and heart disease, an even larger health crisis is brewing. Antibiotic resistance is considered by the Word Health Organization (WHO) to be one of humanity’s greatest thre...
Skip Beloff champions care for little-known heart condition Tara Simonetta Mann December 10, 2020 761 Charles “Skip” Beloff was just returning from an Italian vacation with his wife when he began to experience some strange symptoms. He went from enjoying the hot weather and great food of Italy to lightheadednes...
The long recovery after COVID-19 for Paul Mayrand Tara Simonetta Mann November 12, 2020 814 Paul Mayrand has no memory of 30 days of his life last March and April. One of the first COVID-19 patients at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), Mayrand nearly didn’t make it. He spent 67 days in ho...
MUHC Foundation launches $200 million Dream Big Campaign Tara Simonetta Mann October 23, 2020 1125 The Dream Big Campaign to change the course of lives and medicine will support the priorities of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC). The MUHC is one of Canada’s leading hospitals because Montrealers ha...
Trottier Family Foundation gift empowers Montreal’s most affected communities to fight COVID Tara Simonetta Mann September 21, 2020 1186 We are not all equal in the eyes of the virus. This is a realization that has come to the forefront over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the virus does not discriminate, systemic issues disadva...
A made-in-Montreal solution to COVID-19 Tara Simonetta Mann August 21, 2020 7017 A key to controlling COVID-19 is testing Editor’s Note: When this article was originally posted, one of the photo captions contained a serious error. Dr. Susanne Bechstedt and Dr. Maureen McKeague were not cor...
Marc Parent – business leader, philanthropist and innovator Tara Simonetta Mann August 3, 2020 2219 Marc Parent values Montreal for what it is and for what it can offer the world By Tara Simonetta-Mann “This city is a hub for aviation and AI,” he says. “We have world-class universities and health care. Th...
