Stop-motion fest. Campaign robots. Duceppe's lonely campaign. Low-cost childcare.

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:

• Part-time film animation instructor and director of the Montreal Stop Motion Film Festival Érik Goulet is interviewed for Montreal Rampage. Goulet tells the interviewer that he discovered stop motion animation while studying at Concordia in the late eighties. The Stop Motion Film Festival is being held September 25th to 27th. 
• Agence Science Presse seeks the perspective of Fenwick McKelvey, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies, for an article on the use of telemarketing robots by political parties in the current election campaign.
• The National Post, reporting that Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe is fighting an uphill election battle against the NDP in the province, quotes Guy Lachapelle, who says that, for the first time, he has seen many Bloc supporters working for NDP candidates in this campaign. The article is reprised by the Saskatoon Star Phoenix and 24News.ca.
• Sandra Chang-Kredl, assistant professor in the Department of Education, appeared on CJAD's Andrew Carter Show this morning to discuss newly released research on Quebec’s low-cost child-care system. The study, conducted by researchers from  University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto and MIT, suggests children who go through such a daycare system, while they may do well academically, have worse outcomes when it comes to health, life satisfaction and crime rates. (No link available)

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