Car crash survivor. Jack.org and the Royals. Wheelchair access. Missing and murdered Indigenous women. Les beiges. Wapikoni.
Concordia in the news
Posted on October 17, 2016
Students
Current students at Concordia do outstanding academic work and get involved in community projects that improve our quality of life. See what they've been up to:
- First-year student and Stingers football player Jizreel Botat is featured in the Montreal Gazette, where he recounts the recent ridesharing car accident he survived but that took the life of a fellow passenger.
- Psychology masters student Miranda Benoit, writing in The Huffington Post, tells of a recent meeting of a group of Canadian students with William and Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, to talk about mental health. Benoit is a student-leader at Jack.org, which works to destigmatize mental illness.
- Laurence Parent, a social sciences doctoral student at Concordia, is pictured in an online story on CBC.ca (reprised by MyInforms) about last Friday's demonstration by a group of wheelchair users protesting poor accessibility on Montreal's Metro system.
- Concordia public affairs and policy studies student Olivia Sheehy-Gennarelli is quoted in The McGill Daily about the recent Montreal march for missing and murdered Indigenous women.
- Le Journal de Montréal and TVAnouvelles.ca report that Concordia film student Étienne Lacelle has won the Prix des rencontres pancanadiennes du cinéma étudiant at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema for his film Les beiges. Lien Multimédia posts a review of Lacelle's film.
- Manon Barbeau, founder of the Wapikoni mobile audiovisual studio for First Nations youth, mentions Concordia student Ray Caplin as an example of Wapikoni success stories. Barbeau was interviewed for LaPresse.ca.