Homa Hoodfar. Consent campaign.
Concordia in the news
Posted on August 31, 2016
University affairs
Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution:
- Heavy media coverage continues of the recent hospitalization in Iran of Homa Hoodfar, who has been held in solitary confinement since early June, under orders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Her family says it has been informed that Hoodfar, who suffers from a muscle-weakening disease, has increasing difficulty walking and talking: Radio Canada (video and text), CBC's The National, LaPresse.ca, Le Devoir (yesterday and today), TVAnouvelles.ca, GlobalNews.ca, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, Huffington Post Québec, The Huffington Post, The Kingston-Whig Standard, Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, Journal Métro, 24 heures en bref, En Manchette, Canada Standard, Our Windsor, Sault Star, MyInforms.com, Newscaf, and numerous others. A Canadian Press article about Hoodfar's hospitalization is picked up by dozens more news outlets, including, but not limited to, L'actualité, Canoe, Metro News Canada, Blackburn News, iPolitics, Life in Quebec, Winnipeg Free Press, Times Colonist, The Kelowna Daily Courier, Sudbury.com, Alaska Highway News, Sunshine Coast Reporter.
- In other coverage of the Homa Hoodfar detention and hospitalization: Scribd publishes the full text of a statement released yesterday by Hoodfar's family, expressing its deep distress over reports of her declining health and demanding her immediate and unconditional release; Hoodfar family spokesperson Amanda Ghahremani is interviewed for Montreal's Breakfast Television; The Chicago Tribune writes about Hoodfar's detention by Iran's Revolutionary Guard and what it means to Iranian women; The Globe and Mail runs an editorial decrying the conditions of Hoodfar's confinement in Evin prison and repeating calls for her release; academic and human rights advocate Monia Masigh writes an opinion piece in the Huffington Post, reprised by Politics News, in which she urges Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to take a personal hand in pressuring Iran for Hoodfar's release; the New Democratic Party issues a statement calling on troi act quickly to secure Hoodfar's release so she may return to Canada for medical care. Concordia president Alan Shepard issues a statement renewing the university's call for Hoodfar's release.
- The Canadian Fair Trade Network announces that Concordia has been designated a fair trade campus, where all residence dining halls, non-franchised campus cafés and student-run cafés are stocked with 100 per cent fair trade coffee. The release quotes Concordia sustainable food system coordinator Isabelle Mailhot-Leduc.
- CTV Montreal reports on a series of three videos at Concordia designed to spur campus conversation about sexual consent. The video series, featuring various fruit in situations involving romance and consent, was produced by recent Concordia film studies graduates Daniel Sterlin-Altman (BFA, 16) and Lori Malépart-Traversy (BFA, 16). Additionally, Jennifer Drummond, coordinator in the Sexual Assault Resource Centre at Concordia, discussed the consent campaign in interviews on CBC Radio One's 'Homerun' (no link available) and CJAD's 'Barry Morgan Show'. Drummond also spoke with the Montreal Gazette, whose online edition includes the three short videos.