Recommended: the Concordia TLK+. TeamMTL. The Monster Group. Preteens and exposure to cigarette smoke.

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• CNW/Telbec distributes a release (picked up by Le Lézard) listing the recommendations of the Quebec government's consultative committee on the economy and innovation. The committee recommends funding a version of the free interactive platform Learning Toolkit+(TLK+) to boost adult literacy. The new digital platform will draw on TLK+ component software programs ABRACADABRA and READS and be developed by researchers in Concordia’s Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP) and UQAM, led by Philip Abrami, Concordia University Research Chair and professor in and director of the CSLP.  
•  La Presse + writes about the TeamMTL entry in the Solar Decathlon China 2018 in Dezhou, China. The team is made up of more than 40 Concordia and McGill students and faculty who designed and assembled the sole competition entry from Canada: the net-zero energy Deep-Performance Dwelling. The Deep-Performance Dwelling is referenced also in a Montreal Gazette article.
• Quanta Magazine publishes a piece referencing the work of John Mckay, Emeritus Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the Faculty of Arts and Science. The article mentions McKay's study of the "monster group" —  a mathematical group that was the object of debate among mathematicians.
• Malaysia's Star Online describes a 2011 study (published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research), led by then-PhD student in the Department of Psychology, Simon Racicot, who found that exposure to cigarette smoke fostered nicotine addiction in preteens.

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