Big Data. C-16. Happy couples. More students helped. Opioid crisis. 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:

• Public Now reports that Orit Halpern, associate professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, gave a talk at a recent symposium at University of Westminster, focusing on big data. 
• The Hamilton Spectator and Our Windsor reprise an opinion piece from The Toronto Star, 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.
• Dr. Jewel Perlin, psychologist at Concordia's Counselling & Psychological Services, is interviewed on the set of City Montreal's Breakfast Television about what couples can do at the end of every day to stay happy.
• The Regina Leader-Post reprises a Montreal Gazette article quoting Gaya Arasaratnam, director of health at Campus Wellness and Support Services at Concordia, about growing pressure on university resources that offer help to students in distress. 
• In a Catie Blog follow-up to a recent opinion piece in the Torontoist, doctoral candidate (humanities) and Concordia Public Scholar Alex McClelland co-authors an article with rights activist Zoë Dodd setting out different ways in which individuals can show solidarity with drug users caught in the opioid crisis.
• L'Écho Abitibien picks up an earlier 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 — announced following allegations of abuse of Indigenous women by Sûreté du Québec police officers in the Val-d'Or area.

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