Megan Williams

Feb 14, 2024 | mcgillnews.mcgill.ca | Megan Williams

Just over a decade ago, in October 2013, a boat packed with hundreds of people from the horn of Africa sank off the coast of Lampedusa, a tiny speck of an Italian island closer to North Africa than Europe.

Dec 22, 2023 | cbc.ca | Megan Williams

NewsPuglia, the heel of Italy’s boot, is responsible for nearly half of Italy’s olive oil and almost 15 per cent of worldwide production, and global warming has put it at particular risk. Climate change and a variety of pests are ravaging olive grovesOn a warm, blustery December afternoon outside the De Laurentis olive oil-producing co-op in the white hilltop town of Ostuni, Puglia, Luigi D'Amico holds out his palm, revealing an olive picked earlier in the day.

Nov 8, 2023 | cbc.ca | Megan Williams

ScienceTeam of forensic scientists in Milan, Italy, discovered traces of cannabis in the remains of two skeletons from the 17th century. Scientists examined 9 femoral bone samples from people who lived in 1600s MilanPeople have been consuming weed for a very long time.

Nov 4, 2023 | cbc.ca | Megan Williams

World·NewThe path to self-discovery can take people to unusual places, but few go as far as Canada's David Orr, run for almost three months and 3,500 kilometres up the length of Italy. It's a journey he describes as mystical, from the eruptive Mount Etna in the south to the snow-covered Mont Blanc in the north.

Oct 21, 2023 | cbc.ca | Megan Williams

An exposé on Giorgia Meloni's longtime partner caught on tape sexually harassing female colleagues was likely not the news Italy's prime minister hoped would mark her one-year anniversary in power. But Meloni, who began her mandate a year ago Sunday, pounced on the disclosure with the same firmness she's displayed during her ascent from the leader of an outlying far-right party to Italy's first female prime minister.