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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:

• Les Affaires quotes economics professor James McIntosh, referring to his study of various approaches to legal marijuana around the world in an article about the potential economic benefits and pitfalls of marijuana legalization in Canada. 
• Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, is quoted in an opinion piece in The Kingston Whig-Standard. The author, writing about the Orlando massacre, homegrown terrorism and Islamist homophobia, quotes Matthews on the importance of the internet to terrorist organizations' recruitment of active supporters. 
• Matthews is quoted also in a piece in The Toronto Star reporting that foreign affairs minister Stéphane Dion has come out in support of a United Nations report that says ISIS attacks on Syrian and Iraqi Yazidis constitute genocide. The article is reprised by Our Windsor and North Bay Nipissing News.
• Newly-named head coach of the Concordia Stingers women's hockey team, Julie Chu, is profiled in Habs Eyes on the Prize.
• Atlantic Farm Focus writes that Caroline Fitzpatrick, affiliate researcher at the PERFORM Centre at Concordia, was one of the organizers of a recent nature science workshop for preschoolers at Université Sainte-Anne, in Nova Scotia. Fitzpatrick is a psychology professor at Sainte-Anne.

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