Parliamentary women. White Helmets. Caroline Ouellette.

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:

• Emer O'Toole, assistant professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies, in the Faculty of Arts and Science, writes an opinion piece in The Guardian about women in parliamentary politics. O'Toole mentions a number of female politicians, including Scottish MP Michelle Thomson, who rose in the House of Commons to recount being sexually assaulted at age 14. Thomson delivered the speech on the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, November 25.
• Marie Lamensch, project coordinator and assistant to the director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, was interviewed for CBC's 'Homerun', yesterday afternoon (no link available) about yesterday's visit to Concordia by members of the Syrian humanitarian organization, Syrian Civil Defence (SCD), otherwise known as the White Helmets. SCD members were on hand for last evening's screening of the Netflix documentary film White Helmets, hosted by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia. The screening was referenced in an extended report in yesterday's edition of the Radio-Canada program 'L'heure du monde' (at the 26:20-mark of the program).
• Concordia Stingers hockey skills coach Caroline Ouellette is featured in an Agence QMI piece about tomorrow afternoon's game at the Bell Centre between the Montreal Canadiennes and the Calgary Inferno of the Canadian Women's Hockey League. Ouellette, a multiple Olympic hockey gold medalist, is a forward with the Canadiennes:Le Journal de Montréal, Le Journal de Québec, TVAsports.ca. Ouellette is featured also in a second piece in theJournal de Montréal e-edition (behind a paywall).

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