Sacred lunch-hour. Emboldened right-wing extremists. Haunted ambassador.

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:

• Steven H. Appelbaum, management professor in the John Molson School of Business, is quoted in an article in Le Devoir about the importance of the lunch-hour in the workplace and the added stress for employees of working through lunch, alone at their station. 
• MSN News reprises a think piece from The Conversation, written by André Gagné, associate professor in the Department of Theological Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Gagné reflects on the impact of the Donald Trump presidency on the apparent rise of right-wing extremism and on whether Trump's election has emboldened the far-right here in Canada. 
• CTVnews.ca quotes Gavin Foster, associate professor of Irish history in the School of Irish Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, in an article about an alleged haunting in Dublin's Glanmire House — the former home of one of the leaders executed after Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising. The house is currently occupied by Canadian ambassador to Ireland, Kevin Vickers, who has reported a number of ghostly incidents he believes may be manifestations of the late former occupant. The piece is picked up by True Viral News and The Loop.

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