A&S scholars sharing their expertise in the media

From labour action at Canada Post and Air Canada, to a summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, experts from a range of disciplines across the Faculty of Arts & Science are sharing their expertise on a variety of issues in the media.

Here’s some of what they had to say this week.

August 7

• Department of Earth Sciences and School of the Environment professor Miriam L. Diamond comments for The New York Times: Wirecutter (paywall) on chemicals found in clothes.
• School of Cities adjunct professor Carolyn Whitzman discusses in The Guardian housing affordability in Canada and Australia.

August 8

• Provostial adviser on civil discourse and Department of English professor Randy Boyagoda discusses on CBC Radio: Information Radio the role of anger in conversations.

August 9

• Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Drew Fagan explains to CityNews online the “de minimis” tariff exemption.
• Department of Sociology professor emeritus Robert Brym shares with the Toronto Sun his surveys on antisemitic incidents in Ontario schools.

August 10

• Department of Linguistics PhD candidate Tim Gadanidis shares with CBC News online research exploring various regional dialects of Canadian English.

August 11

• School of Cities adjunct professor Carolyn Whitzman discusses in The Globe and Mail (paywall) housing targets and prices in Canada.
• Department of Geography & Planning professor and School of Cities director Karen Chapple talks to CBC Radio: Here and Now about low housing starts in Ontario.
• Department of Anthropology PhD candidate Walter Callaghan comments for Global News online on a rise in reported incidents of hateful conduct in the Canadian military.
• Department of East Asian Studies assistant professor Michelle Cho talks to CBC News online about Korean culture in North America.
• David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics PhD candidate Ethen Sun discusses with CTV News online the Perseids meteor shower.

August 12

• Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy research fellow Vanessa van den Boogaard writes in Foreign Policy (paywall) about the impacts of Trump’s remittance tax on migrants.
• Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Lynette Ong shares with The Canadian Press her research on China’s 2019 restrictions on canola imports.
• School of Cities urbanist-in-residence Lanrick Bennett Jr. discusses on CBC Radio: Metro Morning the importance of Canada recognizing bike mechanics as a profession.

August 13

• Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy affiliated faculty Aurel Braun writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the upcoming Alaska summit.
• Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources professor Rafael Gomez comments for Yahoo! News on the pending Air Canada strike.
• Department of Economics professor Joseph Steinberg comments for The Globe and Mail (paywall) on the outcome of tariff price predictions.

August 14

• Department of Computer Science University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton talks to CNN: Anderson Cooper 360° about whether AI can be programmed to have empathy and motherly instincts to protect humans.
• Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources professor Rafael Gomez comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on the Canadian Union of Postal Workers soon resuming negotiations with the Crown corporation.
• Department of Philosophy professor Mark Kingwell responds to Toronto Star (paywall) readers’ questions about whether speed camera vandalism is an act of civil disobedience, and if a parent reading their teenager’s diary is an invasion of privacy.
• Carolyn Whitzman comments in CBC News on efforts to accelerate student housing development in Edmonton.
• Criminology and Sociolegal Studies assistant professor Patrick Watson comments in the Toronto Star on calls to release details of a now-closed internal investigation into favoritism at the Durham police force.

August 15

• Karen Chapple explains in the Toronto Star how developing prosperous cities requires more than investing in housing and transit.

August 16

• Department of Economics professor emeritus Gustavo Indart explains in the Toronto Star the stability of financial markets amid ongoing threats of tariffs by U.S. president Donald Trump.

August 18

• SeungJung Kim, an associate professor in the Department of Art History, writes an op-ed in Korea JoongAng Daily examining the downfall of Korea’s former president and his spouse.
• Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Timothy Snyder examines U.S. president Donald Trump’s approach to foreign policy and the war in Ukraine in a Globe and Mail op-ed.

August 19

• Arne Kislenko of the Trinity One International Relations program at Trinity College discusses in a Toronto Star op-ed the recent summit between U.S. president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin.
• Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman describes in a Hill Times op-ed how Canada’s government is both democratic and hierarchical.

August 20

• Department of Computer Science professor Daniel Wigdor comments in the Financial Post on investment in AI innovation in Canada.