Victims of terrorism. Mulcair ouster movement. Tyrrell on the hustings. Racine carrée. Competitive game design. Hockey camp.
Concordia in the news
Posted on March 29, 2016
Students
Current students at Concordia do outstanding academic work and get involved in community projects that improve our quality of life. See what they've been up to:
- A brief announced the above-mentioned vigil on the campus of McGill University, Sunday evening, organized by student associations at Concordia and three other Montreal universities to remember the victims of recent terrorist attacks: Saturday's Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Journal Métro, CJAD.com, RougeFM.ca and The Canadian Press/La Presse Canadienne, picked up by LaPresse.ca, CTVnewsMontreal.ca, L'Avantage de Rimouski, Québec Hebdo and Le Lac-St-Jean. Several media later covered the vigil: CTVnewsMontreal.ca, CBC.ca, Radio-Canada, Sympatico.ca and La Presse Canadienne, picked up Huffington Post Québec.
- A CBC.ca article about next month's NDP vote to confirm Thomas Mulcair's leadership of the party looks at a growing Quebec movement to force Mulcair to leave. It mentions a recent call by NDP chapters at Concordia and McGill for Mulcair's departure. The article is reprised by Yahoo! News.
- Presse Canadienne re-posts an article reporting that Quebec Green Party leader Alex Tyrrell, a part-time student in environmental science at Concordia, is running under his party's banner in the Quebec by-election in the riding of Chicoutimi, in the Saguenay.
- Journal Métro, writing about an urban gardening project at the Jardin-des-Saints-Anges elementary school in Lachine, notes the involvement of a group of Concordia business and leisure sciences students in the school project to grow and sell produce and herbs. The Concordia students are working through the university's Racine Carrée initiative.
- CTV Montreal (video and text) reports on the Ubisoft gaming competition mentioned in the "student media" section, above. A Concordia student, Romina Rabti Zolpirani, is quoted and appears on camera, at the 32-second mark). Winners of the competition are to be announced April 11th.
- L'Avantage de Rimouski picks up an earlier piece about the participation of Concordia Stingers women's hockey players Sophie Gagnon and Claudia Dubois as instructors at a recent high school hockey training camp in Trois Pistoles.