Immigrant travel ban. May and Trump. Mosque attack. Presidential orders. Americans at Concordia. Prescription for cheaper meds. Micheline Lanctôt.

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:

• André Gagné, associate professor of theological studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is interviewed for CTV Montreal's Noon News. He tells interviewer Mutsumi Takahashi that the rhetoric from the Trump Administration in defence of the new president's travel and immigration restrictions on many Muslims helps feed Islamist extremism. Gagné is also quoted in Le Journal de Montréal and Le Journal de Québec and was interviewed on CJAD's Aaron Rand Show last evening (no link available).
• Guy Lachapelle, political science professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science and Secretary General of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), appeared on the Radio-Canada Regina morning program, 'Point du jour' last Friday to discuss the meeting of British Prime Minister Theresa May with U.S. President Donald Trump and Republican members of Congress. The Lachapelle segment begins at the 1:47:10 mark. 
• Chedly Belkhodja, principal of and professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs, Faculty of Arts and Science, was interviewed for the Global Montreal 5:30 News, yesterday, concerning the attack on the Quebec City mosque. Belkhodja talked about the apparently growing trend of young white males being radicalized.
• MSN.com posts a City Montreal Breakfast Television interview with Graham Dodds, associate professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Dodds discusses the flurry of executive orders from the Oval Office in the first ten days of the Trump Administration. 
• USA Today quotes Graham Dodds saying that some of the executive orders signed by the new president have little policy impact and seem to have been more for symbolic or rhetorical purposes. The article is reprised by First Coast News, Northwest News and KARE11.com.
• Kyle Matthews, executive director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, was interviewed on Global News Morning about the shooting at a Quebec City mosque.
• Le Journal de Montréal writes about a spike in applications from the U.S. for enrollment in Quebec's English-language universities, observed since the election of Donald Trump. It reports an 18 percent increase in American applications for the next Fall term at Concordia. The paper says the number of applications for transfer to Concordia from students already registered at a U.S. university is also spiking, with a 57-percent increase. The article notes that students from the U.S. must pay close to $21-thousand (CDN) for a full year of study at Concordia — reportedly less than half of the average tuition at universities in the U.S. The article appears also in Le Journal de Québec.
• The Huffington Post runs a piece featuring Mohammed Salih, a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. Salih tells the publication that he had an opportunity to come to Concordia to continue his studies and now wonders if, in the wake of the Trump election, he made the right decision to stay at Annenberg.
• Kathleen O’Grady, research associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, writing in The Globe and Mail, offers tips to help Canadians save money on their prescription medication.
• Concordia cinema instructor and actor Micheline Lanctôt is featured in Canoe.

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