Home-delivered Big Mac. Canadians and Trump. Canada's 150th in the Garden River Nation. Rent controls. 'Points of View'. Canadian identity.

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:

• Radio-Canada.ca talks to Jordan LeBel, associate professor of marketing in the John Molson School of Business, about McDonald's and Uber teaming up to offer home-delivery of meals.
• Graham Dodds, associate professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, was on CJAD Saturday afternoon for a discussion with host Todd Van Der Heyden about Canadians' impression of U.S. president Donald Trump (no link available).
• Karl Hele, associate professor and director of First Peoples Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, writes in theSault Star about the original July 1st celebration in 1867, its observance in Ontario's Garden River First Nation and how Canadians should consider their country's colonial past when celebrating Confederation.
• Ted Rutland, associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is listed among the signatories to an opinion piece in Le Devoir calling for rent controls in Quebec, along the lines of controls currently in place in Ontario.  
• L'aquilon lists Geneviève Cadieux, associate professor of photography in the Department of Studio Art, among the members of the selection jury for the photography exhibition, Points of view, at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.
• Sophie Marcotte, professor in the Département d'études françaises and director of laboratoire NT2-Concordia in the Faculty of Arts and Science, participates in a discussion on the Radio Canada program, 'Aujourd'hui l'histoire' of how the arts express Canada's complex identity. Marcotte is first heard at the 6:20 mark.
• Daniel Salée, professor in the Department of Political Science and in the School of Community and Public Affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is heard on Radio Canada's 'Midi info' in a discussion of First Nations grievances and issues, highlighted during Canada Day celebrations. The Salée segment begins at the 2:55 mark.
• ACTproject.ca writes that Shannon Hebblethwaite, associate professor of applied human sciences in the Faculty of Arts and Science, participated in the recent conference, 'AgingGraz2017: Cultural Narratives, Processes & Strategies in Representations of Age and Aging', which took place in Austria.

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