Target retail rollback. Bombardier slowdown. Pension fund business. Charlie Hebdo. Exercise play.

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:

• Several Concordians are solicited by news media for their perspective on the announced withdrawal from Canada of American retail giant Target: Robert Soroka, instructor at the Centre for Continuing Education, is interviewed onGlobal Montreal's 6pm news, as well as on CTV Newsnet and CBC Montreal's 6pm news (no links available). Marketing professor Lea Katsanis appears on CBC Montreal radio's Homerun (click on the first item in the list of links). Part-time management instructor Nasos Makriyiannis is quoted in Les Affaires. Associate professor or marketing Onur Bodur is quoted in an article in The Globe and Mail.
• Associate professor of management Isabelle Dostaler is quoted in an online Radio Canada article about a new round of job and production cuts at Bombardier.
• Economics professor Ian Irvine writes an opinion piece in the Montreal Gazette about the involvement of the Caisse de dépôt et placement in major infrastructure projects.
• Coordinator and associate member at the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre Adan Suazo is interviewed onCFMB Radio Italiana in Montreal about the Charlie Hebdo massacre. He appears at the 21-minute mark.
• James Gavin, professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, is interviewed in Experience Life about how to take the drudgery out of regular exercise.

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