Terror in Brussels. Canada's ISIS fight plan. Mostly-white police. Ireland's Eighth. First Nations mental health. Concordian hockey camp. Humanitarian hockey.
Concordia in the news
Posted on March 23, 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:
- Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia, was interviewed over the phone on Montreal's Breakfast Television soon after news broke of yesterday's terrorist attacks on the airport and the subway system in Brussels.
- Matthews and Chantalle Gonzalez, a Concordia Master’s Student (Public Policy and Public Administration) write a piece in the National Post denouncing the lack of a cyberstrategy in Canada's plan to fight ISIS and a failure by the Canadian government to address and counter the presence of ISIS planners, fund raisers and recruiters on the internet.
- Political Science professor Maria Peluso is quoted in an article in CBC.ca's Real Talk on Race series focusing on the under-representation of ethnic minorities on police forces in Quebec.
- A release in Her (Ireland) announcing a public discussion of how to bring about repeal of Ireland's constitutional ban on abortion lists Susan Cahill, assistant professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies, among the speakers at the event, Wednesday, March 30, in Dublin's Project Arts Centre.
- Karl Hele, associate professor in and director of the First Peoples Studies program in the School of Community and Public Affairs, is quoted in an earlier piece reprised in EZspk (UK) about the Canadian government's response to widespread mental health problems in Canada's First Nations communities.
- A brief in the Rivières-du-Loup publication Info Dimanche and AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall) mentions the participation of Concordia Stingers women's hockey players Sophie Gagnon and Claudia Dubois at a recent high school hockey training camp in Trois Pistoles.
- L'Eclaireur Progrès reprises an earlier brief announcing that Concordia Strength and Conditioning coach and former Stinger women's hockey player Lisa-Marie Breton-Lebreux has received the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) humanitarian action award.