A&S scholars sharing their expertise in the media this week

From the history of theatre design to the 30th anniversary of the defeat of the Charlottetown Accord, 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.

October 21, 2022

• Department of Art History associate professor Joseph Clarke discusses the history of theatre design and acoustic space on ABC Radio Australia: Blueprint for Living.
• Department of Geography & Planning professor and Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities director Matti Siemiatycki talks to Global News online and BNN Bloomberg about infrastructure interventions cities can use, including toll roads and expanding cycling networks. Later in the week, he explains to Global News online how city services became a key Toronto municipal election issue.
• Director of the Institute on Municipal Finance & Governance at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Enid Slack tells CTV News online that Toronto’s pandemic-driven budget deficit will be a big challenge for the newly re-elected mayor.

October 22, 2022

• Department of Political Science professor Wendy Wong and Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies PhD student Jamie Duncan write in The Globe and Mail (paywall) that data intermediaries are a better solution than data rights for protecting democracy.
• Associate professor in the Department of Political Science and at the Munk School Diana Fu explains to The Wall Street Journal (paywall) that the Beijing protests tap into a broader undercurrent of societal discontent.
• Department of Political Science professor emeritus David Rayside tells CBC News online that when preparing for an election, it’s important for voters to know the ethical core of a political candidate.

October 23, 2022

• Associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Asian Institute at the Munk School Lynette Ong shares her work with Bloomberg (paywall) on China’s Communist Party congress.
• School of Cities director and Department of Geography & Planning professor Karen Chapple comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on the incumbency advantage in Toronto’s mayoral election.

October 24, 2022

• Munk School professor Drew Fagan says to The Globe and Mail (paywall) that re-elected Toronto mayor John Tory may receive federal assistance to achieve housing goals.

October 25, 2022

• The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), which includes contributions from researchers at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, is profiled in CBC Science upon being awarded the Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
• Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman says to Global News online that political attacks on the Bank of Canada could have disastrous results. He also comments for the Mississauga Times on low voter turnout in Toronto’s municipal election.

October 26, 2022

• Department of Sociology professor emeritus Jeffrey Reitz, a faculty affiliate of the Centre for the Study of the United States at the Munk School, comments in CTV News on the influx of immigrants to Canada’s Atlantic provinces in recent years.
• Karen Chapple co-authors a Toronto Star op-ed examining the Ontario government’s plan to build housing in the province and how it might impact affordability in Toronto.
• Nelson Wiseman reflects in the Toronto Star on the 30th anniversary of the defeat of the Charlottetown Accord and the lingering effect on the appetite for constitutional change in Canada.

October 27, 2022

• In a CBC News story examining the refusal by the Halifax Regional Police to make discipline records public, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies PhD candidate Jihyun Kwon comments on the ramifications of filing a complaint against a police service.
• Jeffrey Reitz explains in The National the role of immigration in maintaining the size of Canada’s population.