Bed bugs. Syrian refugees. The Aylan Kurdi photo. Social Economy Forum. Griffintown development. The poop on city cleanliness. Trombonist, front and centre.
Concordia in the news
Posted on September 6, 2016
Expert commentators
Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:
- Leanne Ashworth, coordinator of the Off Campus Housing & Job Bank at Concordia, is quoted in a piece by The Canadian Presse/La Presse Canadienne about bed bugs in Montreal, an ongoing problem in certain apartments rented by students: CTVMontrealNews.ca, CTVNews.ca, CBC.ca, GlobalNews.ca, Maclean's, Montreal Gazette, LaPresse.ca, Le Devoir, National Post, L'actualité, CJAD.com, The Toronto Star, Toronto Star e-edition, CityNews.ca, Regina Leader-Post, Journal Métro, Metro News, Québec Hebdo, Le Lac-St-Jean, TB Newswatch, 1310news.com, Radio Canada International and several other outlets.
- Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia was interviewed last Friday afternoon for CBC Radio One's Homerun (no link available). Matthews spoke about the refugee situation in Syria.
- Numerous media pick up an earlier article from The Canadian Press that quoted Matthews on the reaction in Canada to the publication of a photograph of the body of three-year old Aylan Kurdi: Edmonton Sun, Toronto Sun, Calgary Herald, Regina Leader-Post, Huffington Post Québec, Goldstream News Gazette, The Peterborough Examiner, Windsor Star, Niagara Falls Review, The Sudbury Star, The Observer, Radio Canada International and several other outlets
- Marguerite Mendell, professor in and vice-principal of the School of Community and Public Affairs and director of Concordia's Karl Polanyi Institute, is interviewed for Le Devoir about the Global Social Economy Forum, being held at Montreal's Palais des Congrès, today through Friday.
- Sculptor Liliana Berezowsky, part-time faculty in the Department of Studio Arts, is featured in an article in Le Journal de Montréal and Le Journal de Québec about ongoing development in the city's Griffintown area.
- Global Montreal talks to Centre for Continuing Education instructor Robert Soroka (at the 1:50 mark) about the City of Montreal's current cleanliness campaign.
- Broadway World announces a performance by trombonist Felix Del Tredici, research assistant at Concordia's matralab, Friday, September 30 at the Spectrum in New York City.