Tales of two cities. Trudeau goes to Washington. Music helps. Double dip? Annie Pootoogook remembered. Philosophie des lumières.

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• La Presse + carries two articles whose authors, a Montrealer and a Torontonian, write about the other's city: it's culture, neighbourhoods and urban sprawl. The Montrealer is Fine Arts professor Carmela Cucuzzella, and the Torontonian, urban designer and author, Ken Greenberg. Cucuzzella and Greenberg recently appeared together for the recent Concordia conversation, "Future urban (the city designed)", which launched this year's Thinking Out Loud series.
• Guy Lachapelle, political science professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science and Secretary General of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), discussed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's visit to Washington in a series of interviews this morning on RDI Matin and on local Radio-Canada stations in Winnipeg, Saguenay, Regina, Halifax, Edmonton and Charlottetown. 
• Laurel Young, associate professor of music therapy, writing for the Oxford University Press blog, challenges assumptions about how music helps people.
• Michel Magnan, accountancy professor and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Corporate Governance in the John Molson School of Business, is quoted in an article in The Hamilton Spectator (reprised by Cambridge Times) about the propriety of a secret contract between the president of Mohawk College in Hamilton Ontario and the foundation that raises money for the school.
• Le Devoir paraphrases Heather Igloliorte, assistant professor of art history and Concordia University Research Chair in Indigenous Art History and Community Engagement, from an earlier article in The Globe and Mail. The Globe article was an obituary of Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook.
• Fabula announces that Mélinda Caron, French studies professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science, will give a talk at the international philosophy symposium, Les femmes et la philosophie des lumières, being held March 14 and 15 at Université Paris-Nanterre.

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