McGill and Tel Aviv U team up in sports science research thanks to a $29M donation from Sylvan Adams
The former Montrealer who brought the Giro d’Italia Grand Tour cycling race to Israel a few years ago has made a landmark donation to McGill University for research into optimizing athletic performance. Sylvan Adams, who made aliyah in 2015, is giving $29 million for the creation of a sports science institute in the Department of […]
Montreal’s YM-YWHA renovates and hopes to rebuild membership after COVID lockdowns
The Sylvan Adams YM-YWHA, which was closed for all but eight months over two years of the pandemic, is hoping that a new multimillion-dollar fitness centre will convince former members to return and others to sign up. The major upgrade was made possible by a $10-million donation from Sylvan Adams, the former Montrealer now living […]
Another plane load of women from Afghanistan now safe after second Canadian-Israeli rescue
Sylvan Adams ‘disappointed and frustrated’ with ‘extremely slow’ pace of Canada’s refugee process
