Governments and autism. Lachapelle and Paquet on election call. Gorguts at Grimposium. Back-to-school sales.

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:

• Troy Media, Medicine Hat News and Le Soleil publish an opinion piece by Kathleen O'Grady, a research associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute and mother of a boy with autism, about autism and how governments across the country deal with issues related to the neurodevelopmental disorder. The piece first appeared in the Montreal Gazette last Tuesday.
• Political science professor Guy Lachapelle is quoted in an AFP article about the federal election called for October 19. The article is picked up by News 24, Yahoo! News, Daily Sabah and The Tico Times.
• Lachapelle is quoted also in a separate AFP article about how the main political party leaders may fare in the fall federal election, announced over the weekend. The article appears in Libération.
• Assistant professor in the Department of Political Science Mireille Paquet, quoted in The Globe and Mail online edition, looks at the main federal parties' chances in Quebec in the fall federal elections. 
• The Montreal Gazette lists a series of events scheduled as part of the Heavy Montreal metal music festival, including a concert by the band Gorguts, being presented this Thursday at the Katacombes club as part of 'Grimposium', a sister event to Heavy Montreal developed by Vivek Venkatesh, associate professor in the Department of Education. The Gazette article is reprised by the Regina Leader-Post. 
• Robert Soroka, a lecturer in the Department of Marketing at the John Molson School of Business, discusses the timing of sales campaigns such as school supplies, on CJAD’s morning show today. (no link available)

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