"A win for anti-austerity". Good business partners. Election post-mortem. Montreal green belt. Sociologist convention.

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:

• The Guardian features an opinion piece by Emer O’Toole, an assistant professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies. O’Toole opines Stephen Harper’s defeat in Monday’s federal election “is a victory for democracy, equality, the environment and the economy.” She also comments on the fact that Liberal leader Justin Trudeau ran on an anti-austerity economic platform. The piece is reprised in Gulf News.
• Michèle Paulin, a professor in the Department of Marketing, speaks at length with La Presse about the importance for businesses of choosing good partners.
• The Ottawa Citizen quotes Dismantling Canada, a book by Brooke Jeffrey, a professor in the Department of Political Science. The quotes pertain to Jeffrey’s analysis of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s vision of a Conservative Canada. The piece is reprised by The StarPhoenix and MSN News.
• Pascale Biron, a professor and graduate program director in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment  is quoted in a Gaïa Presse piece about the importance of green belts and environmental protection.  Biron’s comments focus on the negative effects of building housing developments too close to river banks.
• Calenda features the program of the twentieth congress of the Association internationale des sociologues de langue française, which will take place in Montreal in July 2016. Margueritte Mendell, director of the Karl Polanyi Institute and professor and vice-principal of the School of Community and Public Affairs, is listed as one of the speakers.

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