For an autism strategy. A better RDSP. Little pink pill. Genocide education. Piano teacher.

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:

• An opinion piece by Simone de Beauvoir Institute researcher Kathleen O'Grady ('Long queues, patchwork services cry out for national autism strategy', Chronicle Herald, January 12, 2016) is referenced in an editorial in the Halifax Chronicle Herald in support of an initiative in Halifax to put people with autism to work in meaningful jobs. In her opinion piece, O'Grady calls for a national autism strategy.
• Troy Media publishes a piece by Kathleen O'Grady in which she calls on the federal government to introduce improvements to the Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP), created under the previous Conservative government, to make it more attractive.
• Jim Pfaus, a professor in the Department of Psychology and researcher at the Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology at Concordia, is quoted in a piece in Châtelaine ('Magique, le "viagra pour femmes"?') about "the little pink pill", Addyi. He says the pill acts essentially as a stress reliever. Read the article in the attached pdf.
• The Suburban's Robert Frank, writing about an online petition calling on the Quebec government to introduce teaching about genocide, quotes petition advocate Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia. Frank notes that the deadline to sign the genocide education petition is tomorrow.
• A news brief in El Politico (Mexico) announcing a piano recital in Cordoba by Astrid Camarena states that Camarena studied piano with Concordia music instructor Yaron Ross between August and December, 2014.

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