Tax end-run? Born again over again. Boarding schools in the Soo. Understanding autism. Election issues.
Concordia in the news
Posted on August 5, 2015
Expert commentators
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:
- Marketing professor Lea Prevel Katsanis talks about the issues raised by tax inversion deals in the pharmaceutical industry. The article, appearing in International Business Times, examines how certain pharmaceutical companies seek favourable tax rates for their business transactions by tying deals to their tax status in other jurisdictions.
- Hillary Kaell, assistant professor in the Department of Religion, is quoted in an article in Religion and Politicsabout the messianic Jewish movement and the growing number of evangelical Christians leaning toward Jewish theology and practice.
- Karl Hele, associate professor and director of First Peoples Studies in the School of Community and Public Affairs, writes a piece in the Sault Star opinion column about a boarding school operated by the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society in the Sault Ste. Marie region from 1829 to 1854.
- Huffington Post, The Windsor Star and Ottawa Family Living join the media that have published 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 article in Press Examiner about the federal election call and the issues likely to dominate the campaign.