Belgian security misses. Reflections on the Brussels attack. Real talk on race. Hockey humanitarian.
Concordia in the news
Posted on March 24, 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:
- André Gagné, associate professor in the Department of Theological Studies, was on CTV Montreal's noon news yesterday to talk about the Brussels terror attack and the mistakes made by Belgian security.
- Marie Lamensch, researcher in and assistant to the director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia was a guest in the Breakfast Montreal studios yesterday. Lamensch, who is Belgian-born and regularly visits her hometown of Brussels, reflected on this week's terror attack there.
- Yahoo! News reprises an earlier article from CBC.ca's Real Talk on Race series quoting political science professor Maria Peluso. The article concerns the under-representation of ethnic minorities on police forces in Quebec.
- La Voix du Sud 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.