Homa Hoodfar. Global Social Economy Forum.

Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution: 

• Coverage continues of the latest developments in the case of Homa Hoodfar, whose health continues to deteriorate while in solitary confinement in Iran's Evin prison: The New York Times, Huffington World Post, Elder of Ziyon (news brief, roughly two-thirds of the way down the page). In related coverage: La Presse + editorialist Alexandre Sirois writes a piece in which he calls on Ottawa to tie the release of Hoodfar to the normalization of trade and diplomatic ties between Canada and Iran; Charles Taylor, a professor emeritus of philosophy at McGill, writes an opinion piece in The Globe and Mail, where he calls for Hoodfar to be freed without delay; Secularism is a Women's Issue reprises an earlier CBC.ca article on Hoodfar's arrest and solitary confinement; Hoodfar's detention is mentioned in a report in Al Monitor on the arrest in Iran of Iranian-American Reza Shahini.
• CNW, picked up by Money News, releases the schedule for the first day of the three-day Global Social Economy Forum 2016, opening September 7 at the Palais des Congrès de Montréal. It includes a news conference to be attended by President Alan Shepard, where Montreal mayor Denis Coderre will announce the creation of the Maison d'innovation sociale. The project, resulting from a partnership between Concordia, HEC Montréal, the Chantier de l'économie sociale and the J.W. McConnell and Saputo foundations, will actively support social innovation projects involving health, education, community action and the workplace. The news conference will be held Wednesday, September 7 at 1:15 pm in the Palais des Congrès media room (523b).

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