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Concordia in the news
Posted on February 19, 2015
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:
- Political science professor Patrik Marier was interviewed on numerous local CBC radio stations this morning about Canadians who continue working past the age of 65. Links not available.
- The Suburban writes about efforts by Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS), to fight online extremism, notably, through the creation of the Digital Mass Atrocities Prevention Lab, which monitors digital hate propaganda. Matthews is quoted.
- Marie Lamensch, assistant to the director of MIGS, appears in a video report on LaPresse.ca about a man wearing a kippa, who is the object of anti-semitic insults as he walks through the streets of Paris. Lamensch first appears at the one-minute mark of the video. She is also quoted in the LaPresse+ version of the story (full text on iPad only).
- Ceren Belge, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, is quoted in an article in Lapresse.ca about the murder of a 20-year old female student by a bus driver who had attempted to rape her as she headed home, in the Mersin region of southern Turkey.