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Mulcair rejection. NDP relevance. Subban Ltd. Platinum handshake. Hillary support. Simone de Beauvoir.

Concordia in the news
Posted on April 11, 2016

Concordia in the news features stories of Concordians who appear in the news. Discover alumni, students, faculty and experts who recently made an impact in the media.

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  • Political Science professor Guy Lachapelle is paraphrased in a Reuters article that examines the formal rejection by the NDP membership of party leader Thomas Mulcair. The article is reprised by the UK's Daily Mail, Euro News,Swiss Info, Street Insider, Global Post, The Star Online, South China Morning Post, Channel NewsAsia, and Today(Singapore). The Reuters quote of Lachapelle is reprised in a separate article in You Don't Know Football.
  • Political Science professor Brooke Jeffrey was a guest panelist on CBC's The Current on the eve of the NDP vote against Thomas Mulcair's leadership, referenced in the preceding item. The three-member panel discussed the relevance of the NDP to the future of Canadian politics.
  • Bruno Delorme, marketing professor in the John Molson School of Business, is quoted in a piece in the Montreal Gazette that examines Canadiens hockey star P.K. Subban's business success. The article is reprised by The Province.
  • The Globe and Mail quotes Michel Magnan,  accountancy professor and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Corporate Governance, in an article about the departure of executive Robert Card as CEO of SNC-Lavalin. The article is reprised by 24news.ca.
  • Emer O'Toole, assistant professor in the school of Canadian Irish Studies, writing in The Irish Times, makes a case for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders in the U.S. Democratic primaries. 
  • Alexander Antonopoulos, lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and member of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, is quoted throughout an article in La Presse + about studying the work of philosopher and feminist Simone De Beauvoir. The piece references a chapter which Antonopoulos wrote for a book to be published next year, titledBlackwell Companion to Simone de Beauvoir.