Alternative facts. Inflammatory rhetoric. Muslim cemeteries. International justice. Heart health. Skawennati. 3 Summers. Superfoods.

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:

• Brian Gabrial, associate professor of journalism in the Faculty of Arts and Science, participated in a panel discussion of "alternative facts" today on City Montreal's Breakfast Television (no link available).
• Qantara picks up a report from Agence France Presse quoting André Gagné, associate professor of theological studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, who talks about a current of intolerance and extremist rhetoric in Canada. The article considers the perception that Canada's image as a multicultural country is tarnished by the Quebec City mosque shooting.
• Mireille Paquet, assistant professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, speaks with Anna Maria Tremonti on CBC Radio's 'The Current'. Paquet participated in a three-member panel discussion of the mosque attack and of inflammatory rhetoric. She is first heard at the 3:45-mark of the program. 
• Chedly Belkhodja, principal of and professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs of the Faculty of Arts and Science, appears at the 15-second mark of a Global Montreal News report (with accompanying text version, reprised by NewsCaf) on a lack of Muslim cemeteries in Quebec. 
• Kyle Matthews, executive director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, is quoted in an opinion column in The Kingston Whig Standard whose author examines the mandate and work of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the limits of international justice.
• GlobalNews.ca, drawing from an earlier interview on Montreal Global News Morning, features Andreas Bergdahl, associate professor of exercise science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, in a story that examines heart health in children. The earlier interview focused on new research from the Heart and Stroke Foundation into childhood obesity. The text story is reprised by NewsCaf and linked by My Informs.
• New-media artist Skawennati Fragnito, coordinator of Concordia's Milieux Indigenous Futures research cluster and a Concordia alumna (BFA '92) is profiled in Cult Montreal. 
• Sina Queyras, assistant professor of English in the Faculty of Arts and Science, writes a review for the Los Angeles Review of Books of 3 Summers, and other works of poetry by Lisa Robertson.
• Investment Executive quotes dietitian-nutritionist Théa Demmers, supervisor at the PERFORM Centre's nutrition suite, in an article about "superfoods" and their vaunted health benefits.

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