Montreal Signs Project. Thinking Out Loud. Compulsive shoppers. A woman's pleasure. Sovereign Acts II.

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• CTV national news, CTV Montreal and The Globe and Mail (reprised by Canada Standard and Newscaf) feature the Montreal Signs Project and the growing display of iconic Montreal signs at the Communication Studies and Journalism building, on the Loyola campus. Montreal Signs Project founder Matt Soar, associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies, is quoted throughout the Globe article and first appears at the 25-second mark of both the CTV national and CTV Montreal reports. Signs project research assistant Danica Evering is first seen at the one-minute mark of the CTV national piece and the two-minute mark of the Montreal report. The Loopand Newscaf reprise a text version of the CTV national story.
• A piece in last Saturday's Globe and Mail announces Concordia's 2017 public conversation series — Thinking Out Loud. The series launches February 2 with "Future urban (the city designed)", featuring urban designer and author Ken Greenberg in conversation with Carmela Cucuzzella, associate professor of design and computation art and Concordia Research Chair in Integrated Design, Ecology, And Sustainability (IDEAS) for the Built Environment. Cucuzzella is quoted. 
• Nexo Rosario (in Spanish) joins coverage of new research whose authors, Michel Laroche, marketing professor at the John Molson School of Business, and HEC marketing professor Marcelo Nepomuceno, conclude that compulsive shoppers' impulse to spend can be spurred by world news of death. The research was published in The Journal of Consumer Affairs.
• Belgium's Passion Santé references a recent study led by Jim Pfaus, psychology professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, who found that women can derive intense sexual pleasure from wide ranging sources of stimulation.
• Le Devoir announces the upcoming Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery art exhibition, Sovereign Acts II, opening Saturday, January 21. The show focuses on stereotyped representations of Indigenous Peoples.

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