Abortion rights roadblock. Life on the spectrum. Autism and the truth about lying. Trudeau goes to Washington. Feminist university.

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:

• The Guardian (UK) publishes a piece by Emer O'Toole, assistant professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies, who writes that the recent general election in Ireland is a political roadblock to abortion rights, despite evidence of growing popular support in Ireland for the legal right to an abortion.  
• Troy Media reprises an article by Kathleen O'Grady, a research associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, who writes about her motivation in sharing her experiences as the parent of a child with autism and shares her readers' responses to her articles about life on the autism spectrum.
• In a separate article in the Chicago Tribune , O'Grady explains how a child telling a lie may actually be a good thing when the child who is telling the lie happens to be autistic. The researcher and mother says her own autistic child's recently-discovered ability to lie demonstrates attainment of the ability to self-regulate personal behaviour and action — an important developmental milestone in children. 
• Guy Lachapelle, professor in the Department of Political Science and Secretary General of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), was interviewed on Radio-Canada stations across the country and on RDI yesterday morning (no links available) to discuss Justin Trudeau's official visit to Washington.  
• Academica links to a Concordia news story about Simone de Beauvoir Institute principal Kimberley Manning's vision of Concordia and other institutions of higher learning as feminist universities.

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