The Montreal Metro turns 50. Global Progress 2016. About Col. Prince. P.Q. leader Lisée. Gender-exclusive education. Linda Swanson in Bucharest.
Concordia in the news
Posted on October 11, 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:
- Craig Townsend, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is quoted in the first of a four-part series in the Montreal Gazette marking the 50th anniversary of the Montreal Métro. Townsend finds fault with the current plan to integrate a proposed light-rail project for the Montreal region with the existing Métro system. The piece is reprised by Canada.com.
- András B. Göllner, professor emeritus of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, writes in the Hungarian Free Press about last month's Global Progress 2016 conference in Montreal, on trade liberalization, refugee policy, ethnic diversity and integration. Göllner was among the invited delegates to the conference.
- The Sault Star publishes the second of a two-part piece by Karl Hele, associate professor of First Peoples Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, about 19th century Algoma district judge Col. John Prince, a key figure in the history of the Sault Ste. Marie region. The first part appeared in the September 27 issue of the Sault Star.
- Bruce Hicks, political science lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is interviewed in studio for CTV News Montreal about the election of Jean-François Lisée as leader of the Parti Québécois.
- LaPresse.ca picks up an earlier story from La Presse + about the gradual disappearance of girls-only and boys-only private schools. William Bukowski, psychology professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, challenges the pedagogical value of gender-exclusive schooling.
- DiaCaf (in Romanian) announces that ceramicist Linda Swanson, assistant professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts, will participate in an art conference in Bucharest, this Saturday, October 15.