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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:

• Damon Matthews, an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, writes an opinion piece in today's Montreal Gazette in which he urges all concerned citizens to embrace the message of the the 'Leap Manifesto', a call for Canadians to abandon fossil fuels. The Leap Manifesto was launched last month by filmmaker and social activist Naomi Klein.
• Biology professor James Grant is cited in a Canadian Press story about the federal government's decision to suspend the City of Montreal plan to dump eight billion litres of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence. Grant calls on governments at all levels to consider what he says is the bigger issue of the need to improve sewage treatment. The story is picked up by the Huffington Post, Blackburn News, Northumberland News, Metro (Toronto), CJAD.com, News1130.com and Castanet.
• Accountancy professor Michel Magnan is quoted in an article in Finance et Investissement about the latest activity report of the Canadian Securities Administrators' Continuous Disclosure Review Program (CDR Program).
• Vivek Venkatesh is interviewed on Radio Canada International about 'Someone' (Social Media Education Every Day), an initiative involving the establishment, next spring, of a portal to be maintained by a multidisciplinary team of experts dealing with hate crimes, including terrorist acts and designed to counter the propaganda used by extremist groups, notably on certain social media. The interview follows Concordia's 'Perspectives on Radicalization' conference, hosted by the Montrreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, on Tuesday.  Listen to the interview.

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