Gentrification in Montreal. Skawennati on show. Decriminalizing HIV. Femicide in Canada.

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• History PhD candidate Fred Burrill is interviewed in studio by Mutsumi Takahashi for CTV Montreal's News at Noon about the process of gentrification in parts of southwestern Montreal, which he has been researching.
• La Presse writes about a series of seven Montreal exhibitions featuring Aboriginal art, including two shows of work by artist Skawennati, coordinator of the Milieux Indigenous Futures research cluster at Concordia. The first show, Owerà:ke Non Aié:nahne: Filling in the Blank Spaces, a Concordia exhibition-forum on the research and creative work of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace, on through December 2 at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, (La Presse notes that the project is the work of Skawennati and Jason Edward Lewis, professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts and director of the Milieux Indigenous Futures at Concordia), and the second, We Extend the Rafters, at the Centre VOX, through January 20, 2018.
• CNW posts a news release from the Canadian Coalition to Reform HIV Criminalization calling on governments at all levels to act against what the Coalition deems unjust criminalization of HIV. It quotes humanities doctoral student and Concordia Public Scholar Alex McClelland and references McClelland's thesis research on the criminalization of HIV, notably in cases of HIV-non-disclosure.
• Exchange Magazine reports the participation of Yasmin Jiwani, professor of communication studies and Concordia University Research Chair in Intersectionality, Violence & Resistance in the Faculty of Arts and Science, in  a project led by the University of Guelph that will track cases of femicide in Canada. 

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