Personal data. Climate change. Close to the nest. Radicalization. Spying on journalists. Crunching the election. Quebec innovation. Iran overture. Biopics.

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:

• Mourad Debbabi, professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems, guested on the Radio Canada program, 'La Sphère', Saturday afternoon, to talk about taking control of our online personal data. The link, "Nos données personelles : Entrevue avec Mourad Debbabi", is approximately halfway down the page.
• The Montreal Gazette publishes am opinion piece co-written by Damon Matthews, associate professor of Geography, Planning and Environment in the Faculty of Arts and Science and Concordia University Research Chair in Climate Science and Sustainability, and Peter Stoett, professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Loyola Sustainability Research Centre (LSRC). Matthews and Stoett write about the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, which came into force last Friday, and the challenge they say must be taken up by each of us to fight climate change.
• Jean-Philippe Warren writes a piece in the La Presse + opinion pages about how parents have increasingly limited their children's range of mobility and exploration around their own neighbourhoods. 
• Le Devoir runs an opinion piece co-authored by five writers and academics, including André Gagné, associate professor of theology in the Faculty of Arts and Science. The piece raises concerns about the methodology and conclusions of a recent report by a regional health centre on the psychosocial underpinnings of radicalization among CEGEP students. 
• Department of Journalism lecturer Alan Conter is interviewed in studio for Montreal CTV News. Conter offers his perspective on the ongoing controversy over police surveillance of certain journalists' communications.
• Please note: Graham Dodds, associate professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is set to appear on Montreal Breakfast Television tomorrow morning at 7:20 to talk about the vote in the U.S. presidential election, and then again on Wednesday at 6:50am and also at 7:10am to ponder the election results. 
• A CNW/Telbec release announcing the launch of online public consultations on a future Quebec research and innovation strategy (SQRI), lists Marguerite Mendell, vice-principal of and professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs, among the members of the advisory committee of the SQRI (Stratégie québécoise de la recherche et de l'innovation).
• Journalist Michael Petrou, a non-resident fellow at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Humans Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, writes a piece for CBC.ca  about diplomatic overtures between Canada and Iran. Homa Hoodfar's recent detainment by Iran is referenced and Hoodfar is pictured at her meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa last week.
• The Canadian Press writes an article quoting Ezra Winton, a visiting professor of cinema, about American political biopiocs of current and past American presidents. The piece is picked up by the Cape Breton Post, Prince Rupert Northern View,  Northumberland News, News957.com, News1130.com and 680News.com.

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