NAFTA in the real world. #MeToo. Face coverings. Fake election news. Tekom 2017. Micheline Lanctôt. 'We are on the Verge'.

Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:

• Guy Lachapelle, professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science and secretary general of the Concordia-based International Political Science Association (IPSA), talks to Radio-Canada's 'Le téléjournal' (video, starting at the 2:13 mark, reprised with accompanying text by Sympatico and linked by enManchette) about NAFTA's impact on the production of complex goods, such as Bombardier aircraft. The text version of the Radio-Canada story is also reprised by MSN.com.
• Chantal Maillé, professor in the Simone de Beauvoir Institute in the Faculty of Arts and Science, spoke on theRadio-Canada program, 'Les samedis du monde', where she discusses the #MeToo/#MoiAussi movement denouncing sexual assault and harassment. 
• Chedly Belkhodja, principal of and professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Science, talks about the Québécois identity in a CBC text story (reprised by Yahoo! News) about Quebec's new law prohibiting face coverings and the legislation's perceived assault on religious minorities in the province.
• Fenwick McKelvey, assistant professor of communication studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is quoted in aToronto Star and Toronto Star e-edition report about Facebook Canada's plan to avert fake news during election campaigns.
• A Slator release announces that Saul Carliner, professor in and interim chair of the Department of Education in the Faculty of Arts and Science, will be keynote speaker at this week's Tekom 2017 technical communication conference in Stuttgart, Germany.
• La Tribune features Concordia cinema instructor and actor Micheline Lanctôt.
• The Intercept features rapper Yassin "Narcy" Alsalman, who teaches the Concordia Faculty of Fine Arts course, "Hip Hop: Beats, Rhymes and Life". The publication says Alsalman was in Toronto last week for a live taping of his new spoken word poem, “We Are on the Verge.”
• Nuria Carton de Grammont, part-time faculty in the Department of Art History, is listed among signatories to an open letter to prime minister Justin Trudeau urging him to introduce a code of conduct for Canadian mining companies active in Mexico: Le Devoir.
• GlobalNews.ca (reprised by NewsCaf) reports that Stingers men's hockey assistant coach Scott Colissimo has assumed the leadership of the Howard S. Billings high school hockey program. 

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