The CFL in Halifax. Calgary and the NHL. Sleeping car porters. Leonard Cohen's journey. ISIS loyalty. New roof money for The Big O.

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:

• Moshe Lander, economics lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is quoted in a Canadian Press article about a bid by a group of promoters in Halifax working to attract a Canadian Football League franchise to the city. The piece is picked up by The Globe and Mail, National Post, The Halifax Chronicle Herald, Global News, Inside Ottawa Valley, Info News, CKOM.com, CJME.com and CFRA (no link available). Lander is quoted also in a CBC story (text, reprised by Yahoo! Sports and Death Rattle Sports) about the Halifax CFL bid. 
• Moshe Lander is quoted in a story in the National Post about municipal funding in Calgary for a new NHL arena in the city. The piece appears also in the Vancouver Sun, News Summed Up, News Hound and News Dog. Lander is quoted also in a text story from CBC Calgary.
• Steven High, professor of history and founding member of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling in the Faculty of Arts and Science, writes an op-ed in the Montreal Gazette about the story of sleeping car train porters in Quebec, which he says helps illustrate the province's racist past. The piece is reprised in The Province.
• Le Devoir publishes a piece by Chantal Ringuet, research associate in the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies of Concordia University. Ringuet writes about the long and complex creative journey of the late Leonard Cohen.
• The Conversation France publishes the French-language version of an earlier piece in The Conversation co-written by André Gagné, associate professor in the Department of Theological Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and Marc-André Argentino, PhD candidate in the same department. Gagné and Argentino analyze the methods used by the Islamic State to build loyalty even as it suffers a series of setbacks in its ground battles to secure a caliphate. The French version is reprised in Marianne.
• Lander participates in a panel discussion of plans to invest new sums of money to refurbish the Olympic Stadium roof: Breakfast Television Montreal.
• Mike Gasher, professor emeritus of journalism in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is signatory to an open letter inLe Devoir demanding federal government action to stem the use by such internet giants as Google and Facebook of content produced by newspapers. 

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