September 20, 2013

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:

• CBC News Montreal (segment begins at 4 minutes and 10 seconds) features a segment on the importance of the anglophone vote for this year’s municipal election and interviews Harold Chorney, professor in the Department of Political Science (he appears at 5 minutes and 47 seconds). A student from Chorney’s Introduction to Canadian History class is also interviewed about his perspective on the municipal election (appearance begins at 4 minutes and 10 seconds). The CBC Montreal News website features an accompanying article, which is reprised by Yahoo! Canada News. Please note: Chorney will appear on CBC’s The National this evening to discuss the Montreal municipal election.
  
  
• The Montreal Gazette reviews a poetry collection titled Needs Improvement, written by Jon Paul Fiorentino, who teaches creative writing in the Department of English. The article is reprised by The Windsor Star, The Star Phoenix, The Province, The Edmonton Journal, The Ottawa Citizen and Leader-Post.
  
  
• Kyle Matthews, deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS), appeared on CJAD (no link currently available) yesterday to discuss Syria.
   
• Gad Saad, professor in the Department of Marketing, writes a blog post on Psychology Today about consumerism and its relationship to spirituality.
  

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