Too sweet. Marijuana competition. Preventing atrocities.

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:

• Jordan Le Bel, associate professor of marketing and director of the John Molson Executive MBA Program, appeared on the TVA program 'Salut Bonjour' this morning (no link available) to talk about a study, published yesterday by the Institut de la statistique du Québec, according to which about one-third of Quebecers aged 15 to 17 consume soft drinks and other sweetened beverages on a daily basis. Le Bel discussed the marketing strategies of makers of sweetened drinks.
• Yahoo! News picks up an earlier CBC.ca story quoting James McIntosh, professor of economics in the Faculty of Arts and Science, about what McIntosh expects will be fierce competition among marijuana producers when recreational marijuana is legalized. 
• Kyle Matthews, executive director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS), was interviewed by Mutsumi Takahashi on CTV Montreal's noon news to discuss the recent conference at The Hague on atrocities and how countries can work to prevent them.

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