Cirque sold?
Concordia in the news
Posted on April 17, 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, and founding director of the Montreal Working Group on Circus Research, appears in several text news accounts of the imminent sale of Cirque du Soleil to U.S. and Chinese investors: The Wall Street Journal, Financial Post and The Australian. Leroux appears on CBC regional television newscasts across the country (first appearance at the 3:45 mark), is interviewed on CBC Montreal's Homerun (first heard at the 0:30 mark of the link "Who's going to buy Cirque du Soleil?", below the show page banner), the CTV National (on camera at the 1:11 mark) and on CTV Montreal (on camera, at the 1:40 mark). Additionally, Leroux appears on CBC Radio's The World This Hour (the 3:34 mark through the "Listen to the latest audio" link) and The World at Six (the 19:50 mark of the "Latest Audio" link). Finally, Leroux was interviewed live yesterday for RDI-Direct, Radio-Canada Quebec City and TVA/LCN (links not immediately available).