November 11, 2022 by
A&S News
From how thinking like a scientist can help one see an end to war to what wearing a poppy on Remembrance Day means to different people, scholars 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.
November 4, 2022
- Department of History assistant professor Cindy Ewing talks to CBC Radio: Ideas about historically significant moments of change that happened in 1947.
- November 5, 2022
- Department of Economics professor emeritus Gustavo Indart explains in the Toronto Star (paywall) that government intervention can be more effective than the Bank of Canada in curbing inflation.
- Department of Chemistry University Professor Emeritus John Polanyi writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) that, like scientists, we must see the world anew to reshape history and end threats of mass destruction.
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies PhD student and Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society Graduate Fellow Daniel Konikoff comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on misinformation and content moderation on Twitter in light of Elon Musk’s takeover.
November 6, 2022
- Department of Economics professor Michael Smart tells Reuters that Canada's proposal to tax corporate stock buybacks is a step in the right direction.
November 7, 2022
- Department of Psychology PhD graduate Ravin Alaei and professors Geoff MacDonald and Nicholas Rule’s research finds that the words to our most-loved songs reveal our attachment style, as highlighted in the Daily Mail (paywall).
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources director and professor Rafael Gomez explains in The Globe and Mail (paywall) that there is precedent for the labour movement to unite in periods of extreme crisis.
- John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, tells CNN online that recent changes at Twitter will be felt dramatically in the future.
- Department of Geography & Planning and School of Cities professor Matti Siemiatycki says on CityNews that the Ontario provincial government’s plan to build housing in protected Greenbelt land is a bad precedent to set.
- Department of Economics PhD student Hugo Cordeau writes in the National Observer about strategies to improve the effect of Canada’s carbon tax on curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
November 8, 2022
- Citizen Lab senior researcher Christopher Parsons comments for the Hill Times (paywall) on how cabinet confidence influences Canada’s national security and intelligence activities.
- A Citizen Lab study found that TikTok was not overtly malicious in its data collection, as reported by The Guardian.
November 9, 2022
- The Citizen Lab’s work uncovering abusive spyware campaigns is highlighted by the Wall Street Journal (paywall), The Guardian and BNN Bloomberg.
- Department of Political Science and the School of the Environment associate professor Jessica Green and co-director of the Munk School’s Environmental Governance Lab Matthew Hoffmann comment for Global News online on the potential outcomes of the COP27 climate conference.
- Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman comments for Durham Region online on Ontario’s low municipal voter turnout.
November 10, 2022
- Department of Geography and Planning professor Sarah Wakefield talks to BNN Bloomberg about the Ontario government’s plan to build homes in parts of the province's protected Greenbelt.
- Department of Anthropology PhD candidate Walter Callaghan talks to Yahoo! News Canada about the symbolism of wearing a poppy on Remembrance Day.
- Munk School senior research associate Vanessa van den Boogaard writes in the Middle East Eye that taxing wealth and property is the best approach to boosting Tunisia’s finances.