Transgender rights. Near-war in the Saults. Viens Commission.

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:

• The Toronto Star publishes an opinion piece, co-authored by Kimberley Manning, principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute and associate professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and Julie Temple Newhook, a gender studies instructor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Manning and Newhook advocate for transgender rights in Canada and passage of the transgender rights legislation, Bill C-16.
• Karl Hele, associate professor and director of First Peoples Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, writing in theSault Star, reflects on the cross-border tensions between Indigenous peoples and the British and Americans in 1838 that nearly erupted into war. 
• La Frontière and RadioÉnergie102.7 report that Daniel Salée, professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Science,  will present a brief at public hearings next month of the Commission d’enquête sur les relations entre les Autochtones et certains services publics au Québec — the Viens Commission, struck in the wake of allegations of mistreatment of Indigenous women by Sûreté du Québec police officers in the Val-d'Or area.

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