Canada open for refugees. Montreal circus town. Push for peace in Syria. Airstrikes. Drug costs. Bombardier leadership. Little pink pill. Offended.
Concordia in the news
Posted on December 21, 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:
- Chedly Belkhodja, principal of and professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs (SCPA) is quoted in a an article in USA Today about Canadian openness to refugee resettlement. The article is reprised by CBS19 (Tyler, Texas) and THV11 (Little Rock, Arkansas).
- The Minneapolis Star Tribune reprises a piece from The Washington Post edition of November 5 that extensively quotes Patrick Leroux, an associate professor in the Department of English and in the Département d'Études Françaises and founding director of the Montreal Working Group on Cirque/Circus. The article focuses on Montreal's branding as a circus town.
- Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, makes an early-morning appearance on CJAD (no link available) to discuss the U.N. Security Council's unanimous adoption of Resolution 2254, endorsing a peace process for Syria and setting a timetable for talks.
- Matthews also appeared on CBC's Power and Politics on Friday December 18 (no link available), where he discussed Canada's withdrawal from airstrike operations against ISIS.
- Lea Katsanis, a professor in the Department of Marketing, is quoted in a Healthline report on the explosion in the cost of certain prescription drugs in Canada and the U.S. The article references Katsanis' new book, Global Issues in Pharmaceutical Marketing (Routledge, 2015).
- Le Devoir quotes Michel Magnan, an accountancy professor and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Corporate Governance at the John Molson School of Business, in an article about a rumour that Pierre Beaudoin is preparing to leave his position as president of Bombardier Inc.
- Jim Pfaus, a professor in the Department of Psychology, is quoted in a piece in Vogue about Addyi, the "little pink pill" designed to boost sexual desire in women.
- ArtThreat.net posts an interview of Inuit filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, conducted by Ezra Winton, an assistant professor in the Department of Cinema and co-founder of Cinema Politica.