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Responsibility to Protect. Little pink pill. Dark campaign posters. Looming humanitarian crisis.

Concordia in the news
Posted on August 19, 2015

Concordia in the news features stories of Concordians who appear in the news. Discover alumni, students, faculty and experts who recently made an impact in the media.

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:

  • Concordia's Kyle Matthews,  senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) is the co-author, with MIGS research fellow Cédrick Mulcair, of an opinion piece in the National Post about Responsibility to Protect (R2P), the Canadian-led mass atrocity prevention doctrine adopted by the United Nations in 2005. Matthews and Mulcair argue for the need to reaffirm Canada's commitment to R2P in the context of escalating jihadist terror attacks.
  • Jim Pfaus, professor in the Department of Psychology, is interviewed on CTV's Canada AM about Addyi, the "little pink pill" designed to boost sexual desire in women. 
  • Harold Simpkins, senior lecturer in the Department of Marketing, appears at the 20-second mark of a Global Montreal news report about reaction to the Federal Liberal party's candidate posters, seen in ridings across the Montreal region.
  • History professor Frank Chalk is quoted in a piece in La Presse.ca about the latest world demographic prognostications of the Population Reference Bureau in the United States. Chalk remarks on the anticipated population explosion in Nigeria and the looming catastrophe there if that country doesn't soon markedly improve the distribution of resources to its people.