Accusation of racial profiling. Rally for Assange. Trudeau scholar. Public transit accessibility. GP hostess. Pre-season kickoff.
Concordia in the news
Posted on June 13, 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:
- Concordia student Amal Asmar, recently arrested and fined as she sat on a city bench following a study session at Concordia, is interviewed on CBC television news. Asmar, who says police appeared to have been drawn to her by her middle eastern complexion, accuses two Montreal police officers of racial profiling. She also complains that, as a student, she can not afford to pay the fines, totaling approximately $1,000.
- Computer science student, Nadim Kobeissi was interviewed on CBC television news in advance of a rally in support of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
- Feminist Current reports that Cherry Smiley, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication Studies, is a winner of a 2015-16 Trudeau Foundation scholarship.
- Laurence Parent, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Humanities and a member of Québec Accessible, is quoted in an article in The Toronto Star about Montreal's lack of accessible public transportation.
- John Molson School of Business student Béatrice Desjardins is profiled in a piece in Le Journal de Québec and Le Journal de Montréal e-edition about Grand Prix du Canada hostesses.
- Le Journal de Montréal reports that Stingers football offensive player Roman Grozman, selected by the Calgary Stampeders in the recent CFL draft, started for the Stampeders in the team's first pre-season game against the Edmonton Eskimos.
- Another Stingers football player, Mikaël Charland, is featured in a piece in Info 07 about the Ottawa Redblacks pre-season home opener against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.