More effluent in the St.Lawrence. Freer trade benefits. Accounting and finance symposium.
Concordia in the news
Posted on October 9, 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:
- Canoe picks up an Agence QMI article quoting biology professor James Grant about the level of risk involved in the City of Montreal plan to dump a certain amount of effluent into the Saint-Lawrence river. Grant says he accepts the city's assurances that the release of waste water, related to the Bonaventure expressway reconstruction project, is the most acceptable option, under the circumstances.
- Ian Irvine, a professor in the Department of Economics, writes an opinion piece in Metro News Toronto about what he says are the benefits to Canadians of freer trade under the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) tentative deal.
- The Brock University news service posts a release announcing the Ontario Universities Accounting and Finance Symposium this week in Niagara-on-the-Lake. It states that researchers in accounting and finance from Concordia, Carleton, Rutgers and University of Toronto will lead panel discussions at the two-day event.
- An article in the Globe and Mail mentions Clarence Epstein among the guests at the recent 'Bal du Musée', in support of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.