De la Concorde collapse. Autodétermination. Sears job cuts. Annie Pootoogook. Carbon countdown.

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:

• Montreal Breakfast Television posts a roundtable discussion, broadcast last Friday, that included Adel Hanna, professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, talking about the 10th anniversary of the collapse of the Laval overpass, in which five people were killed.
• Columnist Josée Legault, blogging for Le Journal de Montréal and Le Journal de Québec, writes about the Institut de recherche sur l'autodétermination des peuples et les indépendances nationales (IRAI), established by then-Parti Québécois leader Pierre Karl Péladeau. She mentions that Guy Lachapelle, political science professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is a director of the IRAI. 
• Centre for Continuing Education marketing instructor Robert Soroka is interviewed on CTV News (network) about a round of heavy job cuts at Sears Canada.
• Heather Igloliorte, assistant professor of art history and Concordia University Research Chair in Indigenous Art History and Community Engagement, is quoted in The Globe and Mail about the recent death of Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook at age 47.
• Environmental blog Greenie Watch posts a brief in which Damon Matthews, associate professor of environment in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is quoted about CO2 levels. His research and carbon countdown clock are also referenced in Carbon Brief.

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