Toponym'Elles. Ex-pat Democrats vote in Montreal. Francopohone immigration.
Concordia in the news
Posted on March 7, 2016
Expert commentators
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:
- Kimberley Manning, principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, appeared on camera in a CTV Montrealnews report last Friday (at the 1:30 mark) about the City of Montreal's Toponym'Elles program, where Montrealers are invited to submit names of notable women who may eventually be honoured with a city place-name. Manning is quoted also in CTV's text version of the story, reprised by The Loop.
- Graham Dodds appears in a CTV Montreal video and text news report about Americans living in Montreal who voted this weekend in the Democratic Party’s global presidential primary, for Americans living abroad. Dodds, seen at the 1:10 mark, explains the importance of the U.S. ex-pat vote.
- Radio-Canada.ca quotes Chedly Belkhodja, principal of and professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs (SCPA), in an article about francophone immigration and efforts to attract French-speaking immigrants to rural areas of Canada.
- Emer O'Toole, assistant professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies, writes a Women's Day column in The Irish Times in which she reflects on the scale and complexity of gender inequality.