A million new immigrants. Public transit promises. Montreal climate change. Gdansk war museum.
Concordia in the news
Posted on November 3, 2017
Expert commentators
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:
- Chedly Belkhodja, principal of and professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Science, appeared on current affairs programs across the Radio-Canada Première Chaîne network yesterday afternoon to discuss the federal government's plan, announced earlier this week, to welcome one-million new immigrants to Canada over the next three years: Edmonton, Regina (audio link: "Un million de nouveaux immigrants d'ici 2020"), Moncton (audio link: "Un million de nouveaux arrivants d'ici 2020 : nouvel objectif du Canada"), Rouyn-Noranda, Vancouver (audio link: "Ottawa veut attirer de nouveaux migrants") and Sudbury (audio link: "Entrevue d'actualité").
- In related coverage, Mireille Paquet, assistant professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, discussed the new immigration targets with Michel C. Auger on the Radio Canada Première Chaîne Montreal program, 'Midi info' (audio link: "Les nouvelles cibles d'immigration du Canada : Entrevue avec Mireille Paquet").
- Two Concordia experts weigh in on the Montreal mayoral candidates' public transit election campaign platforms: Pierre Gauthier, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and Craig Townsend, associate professor in the same department, are quoted in the article, in the Montreal Gazette.
- Pierre Gauthier is quoted in a CBC story (text only) about how municipal administrations will need to respond to climate change in Montreal in the next few years.
- Erica Lehrer, associate professor of history and of anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Science and Canada Research Chair in Museum and Heritage Studies, is signatory to an open letter in (in Polish), denouncing a drive by Poland's nationalist PiS party in power to transform the permanent exhibition at Poland's new WWII museum, in Gdansk, which some deem does not adequately represent the suffering of Poles during the Second World War:Oko Press.