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Concordia in the news
Posted on March 6, 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:
- Numerous media update judicial proceedings against 47-year old Hisham Saadi, the Concordia doctoral candidate who was arraigned on charges of inciting terrorism fears, mischief and transmitting death threats in connection with last Wednesday's bomb scare at the SGW campus. The reports indicated that Saadi would spend the weekend in police custody, pending a bail hearing set for today: CTV Montreal (video and text), CTVnews.ca, CBC Montreal News at 6:00 (at the 5:02 mark), CBC.ca, LaPresse.ca, Le Devoir, Radio-Canada.ca, TVAnouvelles.ca, L'actualité, Le Journal de Montréal, Journal de Montréal e-edition, Canoe, 98,5fm.ca, Journal Métro, Metro News, The Toronto Star, Cape Breton Post, Canada Standard, Halifax Chronicle Herald, Sudbury.com, Winnipeg Free Press, Edmonton Sun e-edition, Medicine Hast News, The Brandon Sun, Red Deer News Now, The Kelowna Daily Courier, CFJC Kamloops, Nanaimo News Now, Victoria Times Colonist, Lethbridge Herald, The Chronicle Journal, 660news.com, 680news.com, 570news.com, news1130.com,News95.7.com, Yahoo! News, CityNews.ca, My Informs, 24news.ca, MSN actualités, Life in Quebec, The New Arab, Muftah, Antara News (in Indonesian)..
- In related coverage: a Canadian Press story describing protests across the country for and against M-103 — the Parliamentary motion condemning Islamophobia — quotes a Concordia student, identified as 'Lauren', who says she turned out at the demonstration in support of fellow-Concordia students who felt threatened in the wake of last week's bomb scare (picked up by The Globe and Mail, Canada News, Red Deer News Now, Canoe, Our London, NewsCaf, Le Soleil, MSN actualités, 98,5fm.ca; Dreuz.info and The Daily Caller present an overview of the Concordia bomb scare, the resulting evacuation and the perceived tensions on campus; Concordia's Centre for Gender Advocacy issues a statement condemning the bomb scare and expressing solidarity with Muslim communities; Journal de Montréal columnist Richard Martineau writes about those he says feed a growing climate of hysteria in Quebec by concluding, early on, that the perpetrator of the Concordia bomb scare was a white Quebecer; Muslim Concordia students and the bomb scare are referenced by a panelist on the CBC News Network program 'Sunday Scrum' during a discussion of M-103 protests (no link available); Journal de Montréal columnist Lise Ravary (appearing also in Le Journal de Québec), writing about religious freedom, tolerance and accommodation, touches on Islamic Awareness Week at Concordia and the presence of a kiosque on campus where students were invited to try on a hijab; Chris Mota, University Spokesperson, appeared on CJAD’s Aaron Rand show (no link available) on Friday, March 3 to debate Lise Ravary’s perceptions of the university; IINA Newsreports that the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) denounces the bomb scare as well as the recent targeting of religious and other institutions; University Affairs links to a Montreal Gazette article from last Thursday, where the paper says Concordia Muslims invite all interested to "talk to us if you have a problem" with the presence of Muslims; Le Devoir publishes its "pictures of the week", including one of the scene outside the EV building during last week's bomb scare evacuation; The Rebel posts a video commentary in which it ridicules mainstream Quebec media coverage of the Concordia bomb scare; Journal Métro reports on efforts by a group of young Muslims to sensitize Montrealers against preconceptions about Muslims and Islam.
- In other university affairs:
- Concordia's D.B. Clarke Theatre is included in a Tourisme Montréal listing of the city's top theatres and concert venues.
- Concordia is referenced in an article in Wtoutiao (in Chinese) about the recent QS "best student city" ranking that put Montreal in the top spot.