Cheaper meds. C-16. Pool danger. Future of Indigenous broadcasting.

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:

• Physicians News Digest and DotEmirates pick up an op-ed from The New York Times quoting Lea Prevel Katsanis, marketing professor in the John Molson School of Business, about pressing for rollbacks in prescription drug prices.
• The Province reprises an opinion piece from the Montreal Gazette of June 7, 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 Elizabeth J. Meyer, associate dean of teacher education at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  Manning and Meyer, who write about bullying of transgender youth in schools, urge the Canadian Senate to pass Bill C-16 on transgender rights.
• Troy Media publishes an opinion piece by Simone de Beauvoir Institute research associate Kathleen O'Grady about the elevated risk of drowning among people on the autism spectrum. The piece originally appeared in The Globe and Mail of June 4.
• Money, Nation Talk, Le Lézard and Canadian Insider pick up a CNW/Telbec release that lists Lorna Roth, professor of communication studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, among the speakers at the conference, "The Future of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Broadcasting: Conversation & Convergence", being held at the University of Ottawa tomorrow through Saturday.

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