Passage of C-16. Re-energizing Canada. Affordable meds. Danger in the pool. Tom Waugh sendoff.

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:

• Kimberley Manning, principal of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute and associate professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and Manning's transgender daughter Florence Ens are featured in a CTV Montrealnews report (video and text) about the passage into law of Bill C-16, enshrining rights and protection of transgender Canadians.  
• Policy Options carries an opinion piece co-authored by Damon Matthews, Concordia Research Chair in Climate Change and Sustainability, and Catherine Potvin, professor and Canada Research Chair at McGill University. The two are lead authors of Re-energizing Canada, the Sustainable Canada Dialogues network’s report to the federal government. They write about the leadership role Canada should take in tackling climate change, especially in view of the U.S. government’s announced withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.
• The Miami Herald quotes Lea Prevel Katsanis, marketing professor in the John Molson School of Business from a piece that appeared in the New York Times on Tuesday, June 6. Katsanis talks about pressing for rollbacks in prescription drug prices. 
• The Waterloo Region Record reprises an analytical piece by Simone de Beauvoir Institute research associate Kathleen O'Grady about the elevated risk of drowning in pools among people on the autism spectrum. 
• Toronto Film Scene features professor emeritus of film studies Thomas Waugh on the occasion of his retirement, earlier this month, from 41 years of teaching at Concordia.

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