No-travel proposal. Headstone repair.

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:

• Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS), was interviewed on local stations across the CBC radio network yesterday about Prime Minister Steven Harper's promise that, if re-elected, he will introduce legislation to criminalize Canadian travel to parts of the world believed under the control of extremist groups. News reports have indicated these areas could include parts of Syria and Iraq. (No links available)
• A news release picked up by Le Lézard names Jean Bélisle, professor emeritus in the Department of Art History, among the experts who have examined headstones and other funerary monuments in the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery and determined that 162 of the monuments are in need of structural repair.

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