April 26, 2024 by
A&S News
From plastic pollution to housing infrastructure, 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.
April 19, 2024
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute Director Matti Siemiatycki discusses on CTV: Your Morning and CBC Radio housing infrastructure and optimism bias in urban planning.
- Department of Economics Professor Michael Smart argues in the Financial Post (paywall) for increasing capital gains taxes.
- Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy University Professor Janice Stein talks to CBC News Network about Iran and Israel.
April 20, 2024
- Department of Economics PhD student Hugo Cordeau writes in the Calgary Herald (paywall) about a bill that would impact federal-municipal deals in Alberta.
April 22, 2024
- UTSC PhD candidate Alice Zhu, who is a member of Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Professor Chelsea Rochman’s research lab, discusses with NBC online her research that estimates the amount of plastic pollution on the ocean floor.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy senior fellow Sean Speer and Department of Political Science PhD candidate Taylor Jackson share in the National Post (paywall) an excerpt of their book on welfare reforms in Ontario.
- School of Cities Director and Department of Geography & Planning Professor Karen Chapple shares with Business Insider (paywall) updated data on North American downtown post-pandemic recovery.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Professor Chelsea Rochman and Rochman Lab member and UTSC PhD candidate Alice Zhu developed a framework for measuring plastic pollution, as reported by Earth.com.
April 23, 2024
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Professor Chelsea Rochman talks to CTV: Your Morning (begins at 54:53) about the UN summit on plastic pollution. On CTV: The Social, she demonstrates how to properly recycle.
- Department of Political Science Professor Emeritus Nelson Wiseman comments for CTV News online on the Senate expenses reporting a nearly 30 per cent increase over the previous year.
- Jody Chan, an artist-in-residence at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies Queer and Trans Research Lab, examines how Taylor Swift’s work resonates with people for the Toronto Star (paywall).
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources Director and Professor Rafael Gomez comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on airlines scrambling to find alternative food suppliers.
April 24, 2024
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Professor Chelsea Rochman talks to Global News about the UN summit on plastic pollution.
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies Assistant Professor Patrick Watson writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about the safety risks for police working undercover.
- The Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy’s Citizen Lab reports in the Associated Press that the former Polish government used Pegasus spyware in December 2021.
April 25, 2024
- Rochman Lab member and UTSC PhD candidate Alice Zhu shares with the Canadian Press her study that identifies plastic pollution sources and emissions in Toronto.
- Citizen Lab Director and Department of Political Science Professor Ron Deibert speaks to
- CBC Radio: Ideas about the impact of spyware on politics.
- Department of Economics Assistant Professor Eva Vivalt takes part in an initiative that makes research results easier to compare, as covered by the Financial Times (paywall).