Trump run. Remembering L'Allier. Autism strategy. RDSP. Car sharing. Comment on abortion. Moderate success. Retrograde Bard. Heat islands.

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:

• Political science professor and secretary general of the International Political Science Association Guy Lachapelle gave interviews to Radio Canada stations across the country this morning to discuss Donald Trump's run for the Republican presidential nomination:  Charlottetown, Halifax, Sept-Îles, Rimouski, Abitibi, Toronto, Windsor, St Boniface, Regina and Edmonton. One link is available: Charlottetown's 'Le Réveil', at the 8:47 mark of the program.
• Professor Lachapelle wrote a piece in Le Devoir, last Thursday, January 7, about former Quebec cabinet minister and Quebec City mayor Jean-Paul L’Allier, who died on January 5.
• The Montreal Gazette publishes a piece by Kahtleen O'Grady, a research associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, in which she calls on the federal government to enact a national autism strategy. The piece originally appeared The Hill Times, last December 24. 
• Ottawa Life Magazine picks up another piece written by O'Grady, originally published in The Toronto Star, last December 30, where she calls on the Liberal government in Ottawa to introduce improvements to the Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP), created under the previous Conservative government, to make it more attractive.
• Associate professor of Engineering Anjali Awasthi, at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), appeared in a piece on CBC's The National, last Thursday, about the growing phenomenon of car-sharing. She is seen at the 1:20 mark. Awasthi is also quoted in the text version of the story on CBC.ca, reprised by MSN News.  
• Emer O'Toole, an Assistant Professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies, writes a piece in The Irish Times about the abortion debate in Ireland. She denounces anti-choice politicians, journalists, media commentators and others in Ireland who she says have made the term "abortion on demand" pejorative. 
• O'Toole is interviewed on CBC's All in a Weekend about an article she wrote recently in The Guardian. Look for the link "how to be a moderately successful person" on the 'All in a Weekend' showpage.
• Gulf News posts a piece about this year's 400th anniverary of the death of William Shakespeare whose author quotes Emer O'Toole from an article she wrote in 2012 (‘Shakespeare universal? No, it’s cultural imperialism’, The Guardian) in support of his argument that Shakespeare was a retrograde who espoused racism.  
• Several news outlets, all publishing in Japanese, announce that Hashem Akbari, a professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, will give a talk on urban heat islands at Setsunan University, in Neyagawa, Japan, this Wednesday: Toremaga, ZDNet Japan and Excite (Japan).

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