The president on the state of Concordia. Homa Hoodfar. Syrian refugees. Quartier de L'innovation.

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

• President Alan Shepard was interviewed for CBC Radio One's Daybreak, this morning (no link available). The interview touched on different topics, generally relating to the return to school. 
• Haleh Esfandiari, a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington and a dual citizen of the U.S. and Iran who was held in Evin Prison for 105 days in 2007, writes in the The Wall Street Journal about the imprisonment in Iran of Homa Hoodfar. The piece is reprised in Kataeb.org. In related coverage: The Toronto Star and the paper's e-edition publish an editorial noting Homa Hoodfar's declining health in solitary confinement in Iran's Evin prison and calling on Ottawa to increase pressure for her release. The piece is reprised by OurWindsor.ca, Our London, North Bay Nipissing News and Casino Daily News. Brunch News picks up an earlier Huffington Post article about Hoodfar's hospitalisation in Iran; Ad Hoc News, Scoopnest and Any Gater link to an earlier opinion piece in The Globe and Mail in which Charles Taylor, professor emeritus of philosophy at McGill, calls for Hoodfar to be freed without delay; LaPresse.ca publishes a piece by editorialist Alexandre Sirois, who urges Ottawa to make Hoodfar's release a condition for normalization of trade and diplomatic ties between Canada and Iran; Ooyuz picks up an earlier Vancouver Sun article about Hoodfar's detention; Huffington Post publishes a letter from Reza Pahlavi, president of the Iran National Council for Free Elections, enjoining the government of Justin Trudeau to do everything in its power to secure Hoodfar's release.
• CBC.ca reports on the status of two Syrian refugees who have been accepted as students at Concordia and who have learned English through Skype in preparation for their studies. The piece is reprised by Canada Standard and Online Nigeria.
• The McGill Reporter writes about the Quartier de L’innovation (QI) and lists Concordia among the partners that have joined the QI since its creation in 2013.

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