Deductible meds. Stock options. ISIS and genocide. UPAC arrests. Symphysiotomies. Moranifesto. Lyon symposium. Beyond Sight.

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:

• Kathleen O'Grady, research associate at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, writes a piece in The Globe and Mail in which she compiles a list of ten medical expenses that qualify for tax deductions. The article is reprised by My Web Memo.
• Michel Magnan, management professor and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Corporate Governance, is quoted in two articles in Les Affaires: the first looks at stock options as a form of remuneration for CEO's; the second considers the tax savings some of Quebec's top CEO's were able to amass last year, thanks to stock options.
• Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia, is quoted in an article in Christian Daily about a recent vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to declare the atrocities committed by Islamic State against ethnic and religious minorities, genocide. 
• Bruce Hicks, lecturer in the Department of Political Science appeared on CJAD's Barry Morgan Show, where he discussed yesterday's arrests by the Unité permanente anticorruption (UPAC) of former Quebec vice premier Nathalie Normandeau and several others, including former Quebec cabinet minister Marc-Yvan Côté.
• Susan Cahill, assistant professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies, is listed among the signatories to an open letter in The Irish Times expressing concern about plans by government authorities in Ireland to destroy documents associated with the country's Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme. A symphysiotomy is a surgical procedure in which pubic cartilage is divided to widen the pelvis for childbirth. It has been estimated that 1,500 women in Ireland unknowingly and without consent underwent symphysiotomies during childbirth, between 1944 and 1984.
• Assistant professor in the School of Canadian Irish Studies Emer O'Toole writes a review in The Irish Times of Caitlin Moran's Moranifesto, a collection of her writings. 
• A brief in Calenda announces the participation of Geneviève Rail, professor in the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, in Vulnérabilité, intervention et innovation, a sociology symposium underway at Université Claude Bernard, in Lyon. 
• Heather Igloliorte, assistant professor in the Department of Art History, is quoted in a review in Vie des Arts of Voir l'invisible/Beyond Sight, a documentary about the Inuit people and the challenges they face from resource extraction and climate change. Igloliorte appears in the documentary film, which is screening at the McCord Museum this Saturday afternoon at 12:30.
• Radio Canada International credits the School of Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia for collaboration on a Saint Patrick's Day piece about Canada's Irish community.
• Stéphane Brutus, professor in and interim dean of the John Molson School of Business, is listed in brief in the Montreal Gazette among the guests at a recent event to benefit the KANPE foundation, working to improve the situation of people in Haiti. Brutus is KANPE board director.

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