The Lelantos scheme. It is as if you were doing work. Muslim cemeteries.

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• Post & Parcel and The Coin Telegraph describe research from Concordia and University of Waterloo to develop a blockchain-based parcel delivery system that ensures customers' anonymity.The system is referred to as the 'Lelantos' scheme. The Concordia researchers are Amr Youssef, professor in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) and Muhammad ElSheikh, doctoral candidate and research assistant in the CIISE.
  
• Hyperallergic writes about the browser game, 'It is as if you were doing work', designed by Pippin Barr, assistant professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts and associate director of the Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) Lab within the Milieux Institute. As the publication describes it, the game "recreates the tedium of a 1990's office job.
  
• Chedley Belkhodja,Principal of and professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Science, appears on the Radio Canada Première Chaîne program, 'Format libre', to talk about muslim cemeteries in Atlantic Canada. He talks about his research into access to Muslim cemeteries in Canada.

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