Patrick Boivin, Al's president. Dutch Old Masters restitution. Language behind the scenes.
Concordia in the news
Posted on December 15, 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:
- Numerous media report the appointment of Patrick Boivin director of Concordia’s Recreation and Athletics as the newpresident and chief executive officer of the Montreal Alouettes. Boivin, who moves on after three years at Concordia, is widely quoted from yesterday afternoon's news conference in downtown Montreal: Montreal Gazette, CBC.ca, CBC Montreal television news (at the 22:25-mark), CTVnews.ca, CTV Montreal 6 pm News (at the 31:05-mark), Global News Montreal (video and text), LaPresse.ca, Le Devoir, Le Journal de Montréal, Le Journal de Québec, Le Soleil, La Tribune, The Globe and Mail, Canoe, Yahoo! Sports, Sportsnet, TSN.ca, The Suburban, The Halifax Chronicle Herald, Toronto Sun, The Kingston Whig-Standard, Metro News, Journal Métro, Chatham Daily News, Timmins Press, Sault Star, Fort McMurray Today, The Observer, Kitchener Post, The Waterloo Record, St. Catharines Standard, Northumberland Today, Welland Tribune, The Chronicle Journal, New Hamburg Independent, Standard-Freeholder, Peterborough Examiner, London Free Press, The Daily Observer, Lethbridge Herald, Nanaimo News Now, CFL.ca, MontrealAlouettes.com plus dozens more. Boivin was also interviewed in studio by Laura Casella for Global News Morning (video and text). Note that, prior to yesterday's news conference announcing the changes in the Alouette's leadership, several dozen media reported that the changes were expected.
- DallasArtDealers.org reprises an earlier article from Art Daily about the the recent recovery of two Dutch Old Masters paintings — 'Ships in Distress on a Stormy Sea', by Jan Porcellis, and 'Landscape With Goats', by Willem Buytewech the Younger — which had been looted by the Nazis during the Second World War. The article references the Max Stern Art Restitution Project, headed at Concordia by Clarence Epstein, senior director of Urban and Cultural Affairs.
- Le Devoir, writing about the increasing trend of francophone Quebec filmmakers practicing their art in English, remarks on the increasing difficulty English-language filmmakers in Quebec report in getting provincial funding for their projects.The reporter states that there are "excellent filmmakers", including anglophones, coming out of Concordia.