Leaders' debate. Les chefs en français. Autism spectrum disorder.

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:

• Mireille Paquet, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, was widely solicited by the media in relation to Thursday evening's French-language leaders debate on Radio-Canada. In the lead-up to the debate, Paquet contributed to debate preview coverage of Liberal leader Justin Trudeau by CBC.ca,iPolitics, CTVNews.ca (Montreal), The Globe and Mail, GlobalNews.ca, Huffington Post, The Halifax Chronicle Herald and Times Colonist. Paquet was quoted also in coverage of the challenges faced by Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe going into the debate: CBC.ca, CTVNews.ca (Montreal), CTVNews.ca (network), The Globe and Mail, Huffington Post, Halifax Chronicle Herald, Times Colonist, My Web Memo,  Country1071.com and News 1130 Radio. 
• The Globe and Mail quotes political science professor Guy Lachapelle from an article in Thursday's Montreal Gazette in which Lachapelle helped grade the different party leaders on their French-language proficiency.
• The Chicago Tribune publishes a piece by Kathleen O'Grady, a research associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute,  in which she reviews two new books  —  Barry Prizant's Uniquely Human and Steven Silberman'sNeuro Tribes — related to autism spectrum disorder.

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