Responsibility to protect. Centre Vidéotron deficit. IRAI. Rousseff removal. Coach Chu.

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:

• Radio Canada International posts an interview with Kyle Matthews, Senior Deputy Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia and fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute. Matthews explains how Canada is bound by the Genocide Convention and the Responsibility to Protect doctrine to provide immediate protection to the Yazidi of Iraq and Syria, targeted by ISIS. The Matthews audio segment is the third of three on the page.
• Michel Magnan, accountancy professor and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Corporate Governance, is quoted in an article in LaPresse.ca about a $1.4-million deficit for the first four months of operation of the new Centre Vidéotron arena in Quebec City. 
• A Lapresse.ca article about the Institut de recherche sur l'autodétermination des peuples et les indépendances nationales (IRAI) lists political science professor Guy Lachapelle among the members of the IRAI board of directors, which held its inaugural meeting yesterday. The IRAI was established by former Parti Québécois party leader Pierre Karl Péladeau to direct research into economic and other aspects of Quebec sovereignty.
• Pablo Gilabert, associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, is listed among the signatories to a letter published by Jornal GGN, denouncing the recent removal from office of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff. 
• Hockey Now reports that ice hockey forward Julie Chu, a four-time Olympic medalist, has been named head coach of the  Stingers women's hockey program for the upcoming season after having served as acting head coach last season.

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