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Concordia in the news
Posted on September 8, 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:
- There is extensive coverage, at home and abroad, of yesterday's public appeal by a group of Concordia professors for the immediate release from solitary confinement in Iran of the ailing Homa Hoodfar. Yesterday's news conference at the EV Building included the participation of Kimberley Manning, principal of the Simone De Beauvoir Institute, Marc Lafrance, professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Emer O'Toole, assistant professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies, Charles Draimin, professor in the Department of Accountancy and Françoise Naudillon, associate professor in the Département d'Études Françaises. All are variously quoted. These are some of the dozens of media that have reported on the Concordia professors' appeal: CTV Montreal News (text and video, followed by an extended clip of Kimberley Manning affirming that the situation is a matter of life and death), CBC.ca (with local television and radio newscasts), Radio-Canada.ca (with television and radio newscasts), Global News (video and text), Montreal Gazette, Gazette e-edition, LaPresse.ca, La Presse +, Le Devoir, L'actualité, The Globe and Mail, Huffington Post Québec, The Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Regina Leader-Post, The Province, RFI (Radio France Internationale), Global Headlines UK, MSN actualités, Journal Métro, CJAD.com (website and newscasts), Canada.com, Canada Standard, Canada News, Canada Live, 24news.ca, MMC News, Newscaf, News Real Time, Brazil Business Today, Oye! Times.
- In related coverage: a number of Irish media report on a protest by professors from universities in and near Dublin, outside Iran's Irish embassy. The scholars, in full academic garb, demanded the immediate release of Homa Hoodfar, who holds Irish, as well as Iranian and Canadian citizenship: The Irish Times, TheJournal.ie, RTE News, Broadsheet; La Presse + reports that the Trudeau government, while it still intends to reopen Canada's embassy in Teheran, will not be rushed into a decision. Hoodfar's detention is referenced; Rabble.ca publishes an open letter from the group 'Canadian Journalists for Free Expression', demanding the Canadian government take more strenuous action to secure Hoodfar's release.
- Le Devoir reports on the first day, yesterday, of the Global Social Economy Forum 2016 at the Palais des Congrès and the creation of the Maison d'innovation sociale to support social innovation projects. It states that Concordia, a partner in the Maison d'innovation sociale, will offer courses in line with the focus on social innovation. The creation of the Maison d'innovation sociale was reported also by Novae (president Alan Shepard, on hand at yesterday's Forum news conference by Montreal mayor Denis Coderre, is seen in a group picture).
- LaPresse.ca, writing about job prospects and hiring in the aerospace industry, reports that over the last 15 years, major aerospace companies in the Montreal region have taken on more than 2,000 interns from Concordia, McGill, ÉTS, Polytechnique and Université de Sherbrooke. The article also has a brief overview of Concordia’s BEng in aerospace.
- Les affaires, writing about the recent Quartier de L’innovation (QI) partnership agreement with the Agence wallonne à l’Exportation et aux Investissements Étrangers, lists Concordia among the partners that have joined the QI since its creation in 2013.