Replacing the Indian Act. Autism strategy. RDSP's. Time for Flowers. Arts at Concordia.

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:

• Karl Hele, an associate professor in and director of the First Peoples Studies program, writes an opinion piece in the Sault Star in which he outlines the difficulties inherent in updating or replacing Canada's Indian Act of 1876.  
• The Province reprises an opinion piece by Kathleen O'Grady, a research associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, who calls on the federal government to enact a national autism strategy. The piece originally appeared in The Hill Times.
• The Battlefords News-Optimist reprises an earlier piece by O'Grady in which she recommends changes to Canada's Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP) to make it more attractive.
• Newswire, writing about the book Time for Flowers, Time for Snow, a condensed children's version of the Greek tale of Persephone and Demeter, notes that the CD accompanying the book was mixed and recorded by Mark Corwin, a professor in the Department of Music. The CD features the Orchestre Symphonique Pop de Montréal and the voices of more than 100 school children from across Montreal.
• Vie des Arts posts a table of contents of its Winter 2016 hardcopy edition, which includes a piece featuring Marisa Portolese and François Morelli ('Composer avec le 21e siècle et la dystopie'). The issue also includes an article featuring the Faculty of Fine Arts ('The Fine in Fine Arts'). (No links available).

 More Expert Commentators