NHL arena squabble. The RAISE Act. Hurricanes and climate change. Hawaii video game workshop.

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:

• Postmedia quotes Moshe Lander, economics lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Science, in an article about efforts to secure a deal for the construction of a new NHL arena in Calgary: The Province, Calgary Herald, Calgary Sun.
• The Conversation (reprised by the Los Angeles Times and Seattle Pi) publishes three articles relating to the RAISE Act — an immigration bill introduced in the U.S. Senate in February — including one by Mireille Paquet, assistant professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, who writes about Canada's own permanent immigration program.
• Damon Matthews, professor and Concordia Research Chair in Climate Science and Sustainability in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment in the Faculty of Arts and Science, was a guest this weekend on Global TV's 'Focus Montreal' (no link available), where he talked about hurricanes and climate change. 
• Press Release Point publishes a news brief about a three-week summer workshop in Hawaii entitled “He Au Hou: Telling Mo‘olelo through Video Games”. It explains that the workshop was a collaborative effort driven in part by Concordia's Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace (AbTeC) and its Milieux Initiative for Indigenous Futures (IIF).

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