Campus scare. Sensequake. Aerospace events.
Concordia in the news
Posted on March 13, 2017
University affairs
Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution:
- There was heavy coverage of Friday's release on bail of 47-year old Hisham Saadi, charged in connection with the March 1 bomb scare at Concordia. Bail was granted, under numerous conditions, following two days of hearings at the Montreal courthouse. Saadi faces charges of uttering threats, public mischief and perpetrating a hoax regarding terrorist activity. The accused has been ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation and is due back in court April 20: Montreal Gazette, Gazette e-edition, LaPresse.ca, Le Devoir, Le Journal de Montréal, CTV Montreal News at Six (at the 3:12 mark, the report re-posted by The Loop), CBC Montreal News at 6:00 (at the five-minute mark), Global Montreal News at 5:30, TVAnouvelles.ca, L'actualité, The Globe and Mail, CBC.ca (reprised by MSN News), Radio-Canada.ca, CTV News Montreal (video and text), CTVNews.ca, Huffington Post Québec, 98,5fm.ca, fm104,7.ca, Journal Métro, Metro News, Yahoo! News, Sympatico.ca, 24News.ca, The Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, Ottawa Sun, Sudbury.com, Cape Breton Post, The Red Deer Advocate, Red Deer News Now, Medicine Hat News, Winnipeg Free Press, Thompson Citizen, Victoria Times Colonist, The Kelowna Daily Courier, Nanaimo News Now, CFJC Kamloops Today, Lethbridge Herald, The Chronicle Journal, Humboldt Journal, Journal Pioneer, Darpan Magazine, L'Orient le Jour, Dreuz.info, NM Noticias (in Spanish), CastaNet, Life in Québec.
- In related coverage: an article in Huffington Post Québec examines the reaction to and news media coverage of the Concordia bomb scare.
- Le Devoir profiles brothers Mehrdad and Farshad Mirshafiei, founders of the Montreal startup, Sensequake. It notes that the company, specialized in the detection of seismic activity, was supported by Concordia's District 3 Innovation Center.
- Corporate Meetings Network picks up an earlier release that lists Concordia among the institutions and companies represented on the major events/aerospace committee of the Palais des congrès de Montréal.