Cirque sold. Solid gold handshake. Grand Prix cash cow. Violent South Africa. Fracking frets. Literatura de género.

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 is interviewed for Czech National Radio (Český rozhlas) about the sale of Cirque du Soleil to American and Chinese investors. Leroux is heard here, with a Czech interpreter voice-over, beginning at the 44-minute mark. Leroux is also quoted in an online text version of the 'Český rozhlas' story (in Czech). 
• An earlier Globe and Mail article quoting accountancy professor Michel Magnan about the near-doubling of Air Canada CEO Calin Rovinescu's pension is reprised by Business News Network. The article mentions that Rovinescu's annual pension will reach $791,300 a year if he remains at the airline for three more years. 
• Accountancy professor Michael Magan is also quoted in a La Presse.ca (Les Affaires) article about the announcement by the government of Québec that it will conduct an in-depth study of the economic impact of hosting the Canadian Grand Prix of Formula 1 racing in Montreal.  
• An earlier story from La Presse+ quoting political science lecturer Daniel Douek about the current wave of violence in South Africa is reprised on LaPresse.ca.  Douek is a research fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS).
• Jochen Jaeger, assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, co-authors an article in Zeit Online (in German) about the ecological and geological risks of fracking for natural gas and oil. Der Freitag (also in German) provides a link to the Zeit article.
• Acento (in Spanish) reports that Catherine Vallejo, professor in the Department of Classics, Modern Languages, and Linguistics (CMLL), gave a talk at a recent symposium on gender literature, in the Dominican Republic. 

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