Flood watch. Macron election. Classroom improv. Blaspheming Fry? Foster care of Indigenous children.

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:

• Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques, assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Planning & the Environment, in the Faculty of Arts and Science, tells Global Montreal News (video and text) that there may be more to the flooding in many regions of Quebec than heavy rainfall, the Spring thaw and climate change: she wonders if authorities are properly managing Quebec's watersheds. St-Jacques is seen at the 40-second mark and again at 1:40. The text version of the story is reprised by NewsCaf.
• Damon Matthews, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning & the Environment, in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and Concordia University Research Chair in Climate Science and Sustainability, is interviewed by Mutsumi Takahashi on CTV Montreal's Noon News. Matthews talks about climate change and how it manifests itself in current weather events, including the rain that has brought on much of the flooding now affecting many parts of the province. 
• Antoine Rayroux, assistant professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, was on CBC Radio Montreal's 'Homerun' yesterday with analysis of the election of Emmanuel Macron to the French presidency (no link available). Please note: Rayroux will be interviewed this afternoon at 12:30 on CTV Montreal's Noon News.
• Ronald Abreira, senior lecturer in the Department of Management, in the John Molson School of Business, is quoted in an article in Life in Québec about the use of improvisational creativity exercises in professional settings. Abreira tells the publication that he has learned improv to help him in his classroom lectures. 
• Emer O'Toole, assistant professor in the School of Irish Studies, writes an opinion piece in The Independent. She is critical of a recent decision by police in Ireland to investigate actor, comedian and writer Stephen Fry for blasphemy following an appearance on an Irish television show where Fry said that God was selfish and mean. The O'Toole op-ed is referenced in a news article in 2 Paragraphs. Note that updated news reports indicate that the police investigation of Fry has been dropped. 
• Jason Lewis, professor of Design and Computation Arts and co-director of Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspacewithin the Milieux Institute, is mentioned and pictured among the participants at a symposium on foster care and adoption of Indigenous youth, last month at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Westmount: The Canadian Jewish News.

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