Bombardier, hot and cold. Zampino trial. Short on fashion choices. Deux vies de Socrates. Marginal museum. Solidarity.

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• Isabelle Dostaler, a management professor in the John Molson School of Business,  figures prominently in coverage of yesterday's news on the future of Bombardier, with the company announcing an order from Air Canada for at least 45 C-Series regional jets,  even as it confirmed 7,000 layoffs — 10 percent of its global workforce — in its other operations: Dostaler appears on a three-member panel of experts during a special one-hour edition of RDI Économie, last evening, beginning at the 4-minute mark; Dostaler is seen again onCBC's The National, at the :50 mark, where she discusses the potential market for the C-Series.
• Harold Chorney, a professor in the Department of Political Science, is quoted in a piece in Vice about the start of the trial of former Montreal Executive Committee chairman Frank Zampino and seven others charged in connection with the allegedly fraudulent Faubourg Contrecoeur real estate transaction. 
• Marc Lafrance, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, is quoted in aHuffington Post article about the challenges and stigma faced by short men when they go shopping for fashionable clothing. 
• A release in Le Fil announces that Eric Buzzetti, principal of and associate professor in Concordia's Liberal Arts College, will give a talk titled 'Les deux vies de Socrate: réflexions sur la philosophie et la science', at Université Laval, Friday, February 26 at 7:30 pm. 
• Calenda.org includes Steven High, a professor in the Department of History, in a preliminary list of participants at the 'Université d'été internationale du CÉLAT-Musées de la civilisation'. This year's event, focusing on museums in Quebec and Brasil and how they represent minority and marginal groups in society, will take place in Quebec City, May 22 to 28.
• Meghant Sudan, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy, is listed by Youth Ki Awaaz among the signatories to an open letter expressing solidarity with students, faculty and staff of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi and the arrest on a charge of sedition of JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar.

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