Cirque sold. Mars One.
Concordia in the news
Posted on April 21, 2015
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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 Cirque/Circus, appears in numerous media reports about the confirmation of the sale of Cirque du Soleil to a consortium of foreign investment funds: CNN, RDI 24/60 (at the two-minute mark), RDI En Direct (no link available); CBC Calgary (no link available); CBC Radio Business News (no link available); Radio Canada (clic on "Pas de midi sans info", where Leroux is heard at the 14:30 mark); The New York Times, CBC.ca (text), radio-canada.ca (reprised by Huffington Post Québec); RadioCanada.ca/Economie and Le Devoir. Please note: Patrick Leroux is scheduled to appear on CTV at noon with Mutsumi Takahashi to comment the Cirque du Soleil sale.
- 24News.ca reprises an earlier story about the participation of Raye Kass, professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences and her brother James Kass, a nuclear physicist, in a program to select and train crewmembers for the Mars One project. Mars One was initiated by Dutch engineer Bas Lansdorp to establish a human colony on Mars in the next decade.