Charlie Hebdo. Early elections. Bloc resignation. Vice: Thinking out Loud

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:

• Two Concordians, associate professor of religion and of theology André Gagné and journalism lecturer Alan Conter, are quoted in an article in the Montreal Gazette about yesterday's massacre in the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo. The article is reprised in The Vancouver Sun.
• The Vancouver Sun provides a link to a podcast originally posted by the Montreal Gazette in which political science professor Bruce Hicks discusses the likelihood of an early federal election call. He appears at the 1:20 mark. 
• The Canadian Press reruns a story quoting political science professor Harold Chorney about the resignation of Bloc Québécois vice-president Annie Lessard.
• BeatRoute.ca writes that psychology professor Jim Pfaus and professor Viviane Namaste of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute will be among eight panelists at a roundtable discussion of the nature of vice, January 29, in Calgary. This is the first of three events to take place this winter as part of a partnership with Walrus magazine.

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