Gas prices. Women in power. Concordia en français. Sick leave. Dreamliner. Indian Act. Pinkwashing. Indigenous Futures. OCD. Autism. Feminism.

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:

• Lorne Switzer, finance professor in the John Molson School of Business, appears in a CTV Montreal news piece about the fluctuating price of gasoline in Montreal. Switzer is first seen at the 1:52 mark. 
• Mireille Paquet, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, appeared on yesterday's CTV Montreal evening news (at the 1:16 mark) and is quoted in the text version of the report, about the challenges for women of breaking into the higher levels of power at Montreal city hall. 
• Philippe Caignon, associate professor in the Département d'études françaises and academic director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL), and Maria Trigueiro, administrator in the same department, were interviewed last Friday on the Radio Canada's 'Le 15-18' for a segment on French-language studies and services at Concordia and McGill. They describe how Concordia serves its French-speaking students and helps students, faculty and staff improve their French. Caignon and Trigueiro appear toward the middle of the segment, on the second link down, titled "Vivre McGill en Français : Le compte rendu de Jérôme Labbé".
• Gary Johns, professor emeritus of management, is quoted in an article in UPI Health News about a recent study in the U.S. according to which workers without paid sick leave are more likely to forego medical care for themselves or their family when they're ill. The article is reprised in Drugs.com and The Ledger Independent (Kentucky).
• Isabelle Dostaler, professor of management at the John Molson School of Business, is quoted in a piece in LaPresse.ca about the Boeing 787, otherwise known as the "Dreamliner".
• Karl Hele, associate professor in and director of the First Peoples Studies program, writes an opinion piece in the Sault Star in which he cautions Native band leaders against an outright elimination of the Indian Act without first providing for new, representative Native governance structures.
• Thomas Waugh, professor of film studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, and filmmaker Ryan Conrad, a film studies lecturer at Concordia, are quoted in an article in Daily Xtra about complaints of "pinkwashing" by Israel. The article focuses on an open letter calling on the queer film festivalImage+Nation to discontinue its financial relationship with the state of Israel, whose consulate in Montreal provided certain funding for the festival last year.
• Radio-Canada.ca writes about the Initiative for Indigenous Futures (IIF) project, led by Jason Lewis, professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts, and the Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC) research network. Lewis is quoted.
• Adam Radomsky, professor in the Department of Psychology, is quoted in a piece in Refinery 29 that examines perinatal obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
• The Mighty publishes a piece by Kathleen O'Grady in which she explains why she writes in the mainstream media about parenting a child with autism and shares some of her readers' responses to her articles on the subject.
• Kimberley Manning, principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute and associate professor in the Department of Political Science, is quoted in an article in Vice about the recent refusal by Quebec Status of Women minister Lise Thériault to publicly align herself with feminists.

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