Internet speedometer. Nuclear-free Mideast. Online jihad.

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:

• Fenwick McKelvey, assistant professor in the Department of Communications Studies, is quoted in an article inLe Journal de Montréal about lagging internet speeds and the cost of internet service in Canada. The article reports that more than 50-thousand Canadians have already used an internet connection testing tool developed at Concordia by McKelvey.
• Yakub Halabi, a fellow at the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies, writes an opinion piece in i24News in which he calls for Israel to join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in return for a Mideast Nuclear Free Zone.
• CBC.ca and the Chinese-language news site iask.ca pick up an earlier Canadian Press story about efforts by Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS), to alert governments and public opinion to the use of social media by extremist organizations like ISIS to recruit among Canadians.

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