Montreal startup scene. In the Burns Box. Golden Square Mile. Oil divestment movement.
Concordia in the news
Posted on February 23, 2016
University affairs
Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution:
- Creator quotes Xavier-Henri Hervé, director of Concordia’s District 3 Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, in a piece about Montreal's growing appeal as a business startup incubator.
- A link to a Concordia news item about former NHL player Robin Burns appears in Yahoo! Sports' Puck Headlines, listing hockey news stories. The article relates how the university named a penalty box at the Ed Meagher Arena on the Loyola campus in honour of Burns in recognition of his generosity toward Concordia's Department of Recreation and Athletics.
- An article in the Montreal Gazette about a new book describing Montreal's Golden Square Mile neighbourhood mentions that the top two floors of the century-old Toronto-Dominion Bank building, at the corner of St. Catherine and Guy streets (pictured), are rented out as Pavilion TD, of Concordia. The piece is reprised by 24news.ca.
- The Canadian Press posts a story that ran in numerous newspapers last week announcing that the Board of Governors of the University of British Columbia had rejected calls for UBC to divest of all fossil fuel holdings. It mentions Concordia's partial divestment of fossil fuel, in December 2014.