Cirque du Soleil. Future Shop. Honoré Beaugrand. Palestinian election.
Concordia in the news
Posted on March 30, 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:
- Patrick Leroux, associate professor in the Department of English and the Département d’études françaises, is interviewed in De Standaard, a Belgian newspaper, about the Cirque du Soleil.
- Robert Soroka, instructor at the Centre for Continuing Education, is quoted by CTVNews.ca (Kitchener) and Business News Network about the closing of 66 stores of the Future Shop chain and the re-branding of another 65 stores as Best Buy. The Soroka quote is from a CTV News Channel story, for which there is no link available. Please note: Soroka was scheduled to be on CKTB Radio in Niagara at 7:50 this morning, on CTV Newsnet at 11am and on CBC News later in the day, to comment the Future Shop announcement.
- Jean-Philippe Warren, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, is quoted in an article about Honoré Beaugrand in Le Devoir. The article is advertised on the front page of the hardcopy.
- Yakub Halabi, a fellow at the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies, writes an opinion piece in i24News in which he urges the Palestinian Authority to call an election.