Bombardier, hot and cold. Syria no-fly a no-go. PQ money woes. Multimedia summit

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:

• Isabelle Dostaler, professor of management in the John Molson School of Business, is quoted in an article inLaPresse.ca touching on this week's announcement that the Quebec government will drop all litigation against Air Canada in connection with the loss of 1,700 jobs at Aveos, the airline's defunct maintenance division in Montreal. The legal action was dropped upon word of a deal whereby Air Canada will purchase at least 45 C-Series jets from Bombardier. Dostaler notes that the Air Canada C-Series deal comes with a promise by the airline to have heavy maintenance work on the new plane done in Quebec.
  
• Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, offers his informed perspective in an article in The Toronto Star, reprised in Our Windsor, about renewed calls for a no-fly zone over Syria to protect civilians. Matthews is of the opinion that the push for a no-fly zone is about four years too late.
• Guy Lachapelle, professor in the Department of Political Science, is quoted in a Radio-Canada.ca article about the Parti Québécois' continuing financial woes. Lachapelle says the province needs to raise the $100 limit on political party contributions by individuals. The article is reprised by Huffington Post Québec.
• A release lists Ching Y. Suen, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering and director of the Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (CENPARMI) as a chief collaborator and a member of the scientific committee for the 2nd Global Summit and Expo on Multimedia & Applications, set for August 15 and 16 in London, UK. The release is picked up by Newswire.

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