Top cop sacked. Flooding watershed. Brimstone, fire and Fry.
Concordia in the news
Posted on May 11, 2017
Expert commentators
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:
- Graham Dodds, associate professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, was a guest on CJAD Radio's Leslie Roberts Show yesterday morning. He provided insight into the dismissal by President Trump of the director of the FBI. Scroll down the show page to the link, "Graham Dodds on the fallout from the James Comey firing".
- Pascale Biron, professor in the Department of Geography, Planning & the Environment in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is quoted in a story in LaPresse.ca and LaPresse + (promoted on the front page) about criticism of the Quebec and Canadian governments' level of preparedness for flooding crises.
- Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques, assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Planning & the Environment, talks to Global News Montreal (at the 27-second mark) and to CJAD News (no link available) about what's causing the flooding. NewsCaf picks up the text version of the Global story.
- Althouse quotes Emer O'Toole, assistant professor in the School of Irish Studies, from an earlier opinion piece in The Independent where she was critical of a recent decision by police in Ireland to investigate actor, comedian and writer Stephen Fry for blasphemy. Fry was briefly investigated following an appearance on an Irish television show where he said that God was "a total maniac".