January 24, 2025 by
A&S News
From the threat of tariffs on Canadian goods exported to the United States to the rare sight of six planets aligned in the night sky, 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.
January 18, 2025
- In the face of a tariff and trade war between Canada and the United States, Department of History professor emeritus Robert Bothwell comments in the New York Times on a similar economic and political environment in the 1930s.
- Department of Earth Sciences professor Russell Pysklywec contributes to a Live Science discussion about the existence of plate tectonics on planets other than Earth.
- On CP24, Matti Siemiatycki, professor in the Department of Geography & Planning and director of the Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities, discusses the population of Toronto and the surrounding area passing the 7 million mark.
- Siemiatycki also comments in CTV News on how congestion pricing might affect vehicle traffic on Toronto roads.
January 19, 2025
- Department of Economics and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy associate professor Peter Morrow comments in the Globe and Mail on how Canadians should prepare for a possible trade war with the United States.
- Nelson Wiseman, professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science, examines in The Pointer efforts by Canadian political leaders to address climate change.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy senior fellow Jon Allen offers insights in CBC News on what is needed to ensure a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas holds.
January 20, 2025
- Nelson Wiseman writes a Hill Times op-ed (paywall) discussing Canada’s influence regarding the war in Gaza.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Drew Fagan explains in the Toronto Sun that Canada may yet face tariffs on goods exported to the United States even though U.S. president Donald Trump did not move to enact them on his first day in office.
January 21, 2025
- Jon Allen pens an op-ed in the Toronto Star further examining the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
- Department of Geography & Planning professor Jason Hackworth in Next City comments on the Ontario government’s plan to remove bike lanes in Toronto.
- Jack Cunningham, program director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and assistant professor at Trinity College, explains in Global News how new tariffs between Canada and the United States might affect Canadian consumers.
- Department of History and Rotman School of Management professor Dimitry Anastakis comments in the Toronto Sun on how tariffs would also impact the American economy.
January 22, 2025
- David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics associate professor, teaching stream Michael Reid shares in the Toronto Star the wonder of seeing the alignment of six planets currently visible in the night sky.
- Peter Morrow in the Edmonton Journal describes retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods as premature though still necessary to be addressed by Canadian political leaders.
January 23, 2025
- Lynette Ong, professor in the Department of Political Science and the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, comments in CBC News on the notion of China expanding global relationships as U.S. president Donald Trump signals increasing American isolationism.
- Jack Cunningham in Global News cites Kentucky bourbon and Tennessee whiskey as suitable targets for Canadian tariffs in a trade war with the United States cites Kentucky bourbon and Tennessee whiskey as suitable targets for Canadian tariffs in a trade war with the United States.
- Department of Anthropology and African Studies Centre assistant professor Nisrin Elamin joins a discussion on TVO’s The Agenda about the diminished global attention on the civil war in Sudan.