Water main woes.Techno fashion. Avanca 2016. Managing legal pot. National autism strategy.

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 Montreal Gazette turns to Ali Nazemi, an assistant professor in the Department of Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, for an explanation of why water mains burst and why they seem to break so often in Montreal.
• Huffington Post Québec seeks perspective from Valérie Lamontagne, an instructor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts, for an article about smart wear and the incorporation of digital and other technology in textiles. The piece mentions that Lamontagne is founder of 3lectromode, a developer of techno-fashion garments.
• Rosemary Mountain, an associate professor in the Department of Music, is listed among the members of the scientific committee for the Avanca 2016 International Conference on Cinema in a call for papers posted on Calenda.org.
• James McIntosh, a professor in the Department of Economics, is quoted in a piece in The Globe and Mail about the Trudeau government's plan to legalize the sale and consumption of marijuana. McIntosh says legislators will have to steer a course between "laissez-faire" and "centralized control". The article is reprised by 24News.ca.
• The Halifax Chronicle Herald publishes a piece by Kathleen 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 in The Hill Times, last December 24. 

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