Homa Hoodfar. The president's defence of the BA. International Day of Peace. Richler recognition. Quartier de l'Innovation.
Concordia in the news
Posted on September 21, 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:
- The Montreal Gazette and TVAnouvelles.ca announce that academics, students and others concerned about the fate of Homa Hoodfar will rally at Bethune Square, in the heart of Concordia's SGW campus, today at 12:30 pm, to demand Hoodfar's release from Iran's Evin prison. The Gazette news brief is linked to or reprised by Canada News,Canada Latest News, Scoopnest and Latest Canada.
- In other coverage of the Hoodfar case: Trend News Agency reports that Minister of Foreign Affairs Stéphane Dion and his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, met in New York yesterday, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. The news agency says the two discussed normalization of diplomatic relations between Canada and Iran and surmised, but could not confirm, that they had talked about the Homa Hoodfar case; El Heraldo picks up coverage, in Spanish, of the recent call by a group of former UN human rights investigators for Hoodfar's release; CBSnews.com, CBS Newsplex and The Tower mention Hoodfar in their coverage of the sentencing to a ten-year prison term in Iran of Lebanese-American Nizar Zakka; Hoodfar is mentioned also in a story in Politics Home (UK) about British Prime Minister Theresa May pressing Iranian president Hassan Rouhani for the release from an Iranian jail of British-Iranian humanitarian worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe; YorkRegion.com writes that Liberal MP Majid Jowhari has endorsed an online petition calling on the federal government to normalize diplomatic relations with Iran and mentions the Hoodfar detention.
- Academica posts an excerpt from an opinion piece in Monday's Montreal Gazette by president Alan Shepard, who challenges the assumption, in certain quarters, that the university degree has lost much of its value as a guarantor of professional success.
- HumaGo lists Concordia among the partners in Montreal's International Day of Peace, being observed today. Related events include a show of the paintings of Dan Oxley, part-time faculty in the Department of Studio Arts, at the Dawson College Peace Centre.
- Montreal Gazette columnist Basem Boshra, writing about the recent completion of the Mordecai Richler gazebo at the foot of Mont Royal, says the need to commemorate the author and essayist was filled by Concordia in 2013 with the opening of the Mordecai Richler Reading Room, in the J. W. McConnell Library Building.
- Concordia's partnership in Montreal's Quartier de L'Innovation (QI) is mentioned in a CNW/Telbec release announcing that QI has joined with Vidéotron, Ericsson and École de technologie supérieure to create Canada’s first open-air smart living lab, focusing on the emerging industry revolving around fifth-generation telecommunications: Money News, Noodls, IT Business Net, Fresh News, ASE Labs, Consumer Electronics Net, KATC.com, WFMJ.com.