June 13, 2025 by A&S News

From the G7 summit to the prime minister’s recent defence announcement, 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.

June 6, 2025

  • Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology sessional lecturer Gerry De Iuliis shares with CBC Radio: Quirks & Quarks his work to build a comprehensive sloth family tree.

June 7, 2025

  • Vice-president international and Department of Political Science and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Joseph Wong writes for Toronto Star (paywall) about how Canada can become less dependent on the United States.

June 8, 2025

  • Department of Political Science professor emeritus John Kirton comments for CBC News online on the 2002 G8 summit.

June 9, 2025

  • Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman examines for the Hill Times (paywall) how Canadian politicians interact with the media.
  • Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Department of Political Science University Professor Dan Breznitz comments for The Globe and Mail (paywall) on Canada’s investments in fundamental research.
  • Department of History assistant professor Timothy Sayle comments for The Guardian (paywall) on Canada's defence partnerships with the United States.

June 10, 2025

  • Department of Political Science professor Lawrence LeDuc discusses on TVO: The Agenda the future of populism in Canada.
  • Department of Political Science professor John Kirton writes for Calgary Herald about the G7 meeting in Kananaskis.

June 11, 2025

  • Department of Sociology assistant professor Leafia Ye shares with NBC News online new findings on the health of U.S.-born Asian Americans.
  • Department of Computer Science associate professor Nathan Wiebe collaborates with Xanadu and the National Research Council of Canada to improve EV batteries, as highlighted by BetaKit.
  • Trinity College’s Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History senior fellow Eugene Lang writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the prime minister’s recent defence announcement.
  • Department of Political Science professor John Kirton talks to The Globe and Mail (paywall), Canadian Press, National Post (paywall) and CBC News online about the G7 meeting in Kananaskis.
  • Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Department of Political Science professor Mel Cappe talks to TVO: The Agenda about Canada’s relationship with the United Kingdom.
  • School of Cities research assistant Aniket Kali finds visible minority voters in the GTA are increasingly backing Conservative candidates, as highlighted in the Toronto Star (paywall).

June 12, 2025

  • Trinity College graduates Caitlin Zhang, Anjali Joshi-Dave, Luis Sanchez, Gabrielle Dumé, Mogtaba Alim and Esther Yubo Kassimiro Mogga talk to Toronto Today about their accomplishments and plans after convocation.
  • Provostial Advisor on Civil Discourse and Department of English professor Randy Boyagoda reviews Adnan Khan’s new novel, The Hypebeast, for The Globe and Mail (paywall).
  • John Scott-Railton, senior researcher at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy’s Citizen Lab, shares with The Guardian, Reuters and Associated Press the discovery of spyware targeting journalists in Europe.
  • Ella Kokotsis, director of the G20 Research Group at Trinity College, writes for Maclean’s about the importance of the G7 summit, with mention of Department of Political Science professor John Kirton.

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