Power of (municipal) attraction. Sex Garage raid. "Female Viagra". LGTBQ movies.

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:

• William Reimer, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, is quoted in a piece by the Canadian Press about the practice by certain towns, including Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, Quebec, and Reston, Manitoba, of giving away parcels of land to attract prospective home builders. Reimer questions the cost-effectiveness of such a practice. The article is picked up by CTVNews.ca, Metro News, 24news.ca, Castanet.net, The Waterloo Region Record, ChrisD.ca, Times Colonist, GlobalNews.ca, Radio-Canada.ca, LaPresse.ca, Le Devoir andHuffington Post Québec.
• Several Concordians are quoted in a Montreal Gazette article looking back on the violent police raid on a Montreal LGBT community "Sex Garage" party, in July 1990: Karen Herland, part-time faculty member at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, arrested at a protest outside police station 25 following the late-night raid; Ross Higgins, part-time instructor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and co-founder of the Archives gaies du Québec; filmmaker Maureen Bradley, a Concordia film student at the time of the raid. The Gazette article is reprised by The Province.
• An article in Best Health Magazine about the drug "filbanserin," dubbed by some as the "female Viagra," quotes psychology professor Jim Pfaus about the US Food and Drug Administration's resistance to the new drug. 
• A brief in the e-edition of the Globe and Mail announcing a new online catalogue of Canadian LGBTQ movies mentions that Thomas Waugh, film studies professor and Research Chair in Documentary Film, is a co-curator of a free 90-minute screening of 15 short films, being shown Wednesday evening as part of Toronto Pride.

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