Campus scare. Aerospace events.
Concordia in the news
Posted on March 8, 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:
- Today's scheduled bail hearing for 47-year old Hisham Saadi, charged in connection with last Wednesday's bomb scare at Concordia, is referenced at the 28:19 mark of CBC Montreal News at 11 : The bail hearing was referenced also on numerous radio station newscasts, on City Montreal's 'Breakfast Television' 6 am and 6:30 am news headlines and on CBC's 'Daybreak' (no links available).
- The Concordia bomb scare is referenced in certain coverage of yesterday's evacuation of a Jewish day school in Toronto following a threatening phone call: The Toronto Star (reprised by NewsCaf) and NM Noticias (in Spanish).The Concordia incident is mentioned also in a report in The Sudbury Star of acts of vandalism at Thorneloe University at Laurentian that appeared to target women and blacks, and again in a piece in The Eyeopener about death threats received at a Ryerson University student residence. Finally, the bomb scare is referenced in a news report (at the 9:25 mark) on CBC Montreal News at 6:00 from the scene of a Tuesday-evening demonstration on the McGill University campus.
- A CNW/Telbec release lists Concordia among the institutions and companies represented on the major events/aerospace committee of the Palais des congrès de Montréal. The release is picked up by Le Lézard.