Homa Hoodfar is home. Aviation think tank. Autour de Maïr.
Concordia in the news
Posted on September 29, 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:
- A CNW release announced a news conference, this morning at 8:30, at Montreal-Trudeau airport, where reporters were able to speak with Hoodfar upon her return to Canada from nearly four months of internment in Iran's Evin prison. There was breaking news and other early coverage of Hoodfar's arrival and news conference on numerous local stations and news networks and in online newspapers: RDI Matin (no link available), CTV News (live coverage and text), CTV News Channel (extended video of Hoodfar at the airport news conference and other video, with accompanying text), CBC televison (no link available), CBC.ca, Radio-Canada.ca, Global News (video of Hoodfar from the airport news conference, and text) , Montreal Breakfast Television (no link available),Montreal Gazette, LaPresse.ca, Le Devoir, Le Journal de Montréal, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Halifax Chronicle Herald, MSN actualités, Traj.net, CIME FM actualités, CT Post. Please note: full coverage of Hoodfar's return to Montreal will be presented in tomorrow's Concordia media review.
- Yesterday's announcement of Hoodfar's return to Montreal was heavily reported in Canadian and other media: CBC.ca, Radio-Canada.ca, CTVnews.ca, Global News Canada (text, with a video report on her release),TVAnouvelles.ca, The Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, Le Journal de Montréal, Le Journal de Québec, Huffington Post Québec, Yahoo! News, CJAD (radio newscasts and online text), Halifax Chronicle Herald,Winnipeg Free Press, CityNews.ca, Journal Métro, Metro News, Philippine Canadian Inquirer, Alaska Highway News, News 1130, 570 News, 660 News, CFJC Kamloops, The Brandon Sun, Thompson Citizen, Medicine Hat News, Humboldt Journal, Weyburn Review, Ledthbridge News Now, Kelowna Daily Courier, Victoria Times Colonist, Penticton Herald, Sudbury.com, Advocate Daily Lillooet News, The Battlefords News-Optimist, The Squamish Chief, Coast Reporter, CP24, Xania News, InfoNews.ca, Life in Quebec, Quebec Online News.
- In related coverage: other media continue to report Hoodfar's release, on Monday: The Suburban, Ad Hoc News, Surghar Daily, Women Free Time, Equilibrio Informativo, Cosumnes Connection; Huffington Post publishes a blog entry whose author hails Hoodfar's release as a a sign of a shift in Canada-Iran relations.
- Le Devoir announces the launch of a new aviation think tank at Concordia, dedicated to advancing innovative ideas and proposing policies to support growth in the aviation industry.
- Le Devoir writes that the documentary film Autour de Maïr, which tells the story of feminist scholar Maïr Verthuy, cofounder and first director of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, will be screened this afternoon at three and this evening at 7:30 at Station Vu, on Hochelaga.
