Diplomatic standoff. A better RDSP. Get your Irish up. Circus town.

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:

• Henri Habib, distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science, was a guest on CJAD's Barry Morgan Show on Monday. Habib discussed the tense situation between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
• The Huffington Post reprises a commentary from the Toronto Star by Kathleen O'Grady, a research associate in the Simone de Beauvoir Institute.  O'Grady calls on the Liberal government in Ottawa to introduce improvements to the Registered Disability Savings Plan (RDSP), created under the previous Conservative government, to encourage more Canadians to use the savings plan. 
• The Montreal Gazette's e-edition picks up a story from the paper's regular edition featuring Siobhán Ní Mhaolagáin, a visiting scholar at the School of Canadian Irish Studies, in a piece about the presence of the Irish language — Gaeilge — in Montreal. Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, the Johnson Chair in Québec and Canadian Irish studies at Concordia, is quoted.
• Patrick Leroux, an associate professor in the Department of English and in the Département d'Études Françaises and founding director of the Montreal Working Group on Cirque/Circus, appeared on Radio Canada's Gravel le matin (at the 8:18 a.m. mark), Wednesday, December 23. Leroux discussed the evolution of the circus industry in Montreal and Quebec.

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