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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:

• Gabrielle Bouchard, peer support and trans-advocacy coordinator at the Centre for Gender Advocacy, offers her perspective for a Radio-Canada.ca piece about some of the challenges faced by transgender nonbinary people. The article is reprised by Huffington Post Québec. A related article on Radio-Canada.ca presents a transgender lexicon, produced in in part by the Centre for Gender Advocacy.
• Bouchard is also quoted in a Radio-Canada.ca article about the particular difficulty faced by French-speaking trans people who must constantly deal with gender-typing because of the French-language gender pronouns "elle" and "il." The article is reprised by Huffington Post Québec.
• Bouchard is quoted again in an article in Le Devoir about the exclusion of men from the feminist movement.
• LaPresse.ca reprises an earlier opinion piece in La Presse+, authored by Paul Shrivastava, a professor in the Department of Management and executive director of Future Earth. Shrivastava calls on cities to work on innovative new plans to deal with climate change. Shrivastava mentions the recent Montreal Summit on Innovation, organized by Concordia, the Quartier de l'innovation and the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal.
• The News on Sunday (Pakistan) publishes an interview with Homa Hoodfar, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, about the complexities of the wearing of the veil by Muslim women.
• The Hamilton Spectator, Hamilton Community News and Our Windsor write about an Ontario Hockey League program to educate junior league hockey players about respect for women. The article states that the program was developed with the help of an expert from Concordia who is not identified.
• Emer O'Toole, an assistant professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies, writes in The Irish Times about women's exclusion from the Irish canon and what that says about Ireland.
• O'Toole also participates in a feature in which she and other regular contributors to The Irish Times present their favourite books of 2015. O'Toole's own recent book, Girls Will Be Girls: Dressing Up, Playing Parts and Daring to Act Differently (Orion) is referenced in a footnote to the article.

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