April 9, 2021 by
A&S News
From the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on Toronto businesses, to a report about the representation of Black and Indigenous riders among interactions with Toronto Transit Commission enforcement officers, 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.
April 2, 2021
- Department of Political Science professor Nelson Wiseman comments in a BNN Bloomberg story exploring the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on Toronto businesses.
- In the wake of being named the next director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Juna Kollmeier describes her passion for astrophysics and her anticipation of bringing that to U of T in the Globe and Mail.
April 3, 2021
- Mark Kingwell, a professor in the Department of Philosophy, co-authors an op-ed in the Globe and Mail examining the impact of the pandemic on fashion and how it may change how people choose what clothes to wear.
April 4, 2021
- A story in the Sunday Telegraph (paywall) exploring contractual demands made by actor Steve McQueen includes comments from Victoria College professor Ira Wells, based on insights gathered while researching for a new biography of film director Norman Jewison. Jewison directed McQueen in The Thomas Crown Affair in 1968.
April 5, 2021
- Department of Sociology associate professor Jooyoung Lee speaks in Global News about the importance of maintaining mental and physical well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 6, 2021
- Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor emeritus Carolyn Tuohy writes an op-ed in the Globe and Mail calling for a national approach to long-term care in Canada rooted in federalism.
- Randy Boyagoda, a professor in the Department of English and vice-dean, undergraduate of the Faculty of Arts & Science, comments in the Catholic Sun on the creation of a new Master of Fine Arts degree program in creative writing at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas.
April 7, 2021
- Department of Psychology professor Alison Chasteen comments in Time on stereotypes around aging and the lesser-known consequences for younger people.
- Maclean’s magazine examines a book by the late Department of History professor Michael Bliss that explores the 1885 smallpox epidemic in Montreal in the context of vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Frank Rudzicz, an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, comments in Maclean’s on Canada’s ability to introduce a COVID-19 vaccine passport.
April 8, 2021
- Mark Kingwell writes an op-ed in the Globe and Mail about suggestions by the Republican Party in the United States that corporations such as Coca-Cola and Major League Baseball are part of a left-wing conspiracy, based on actions taken in the wake of changes to voting laws in the state of Georgia.
- A report co-authored by professor Scot Wortley, acting director of the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, and University of Toronto Mississauga assistant professor Akwasi Owusu-Bempah about the representation of Black and Indigenous riders among interactions with public transit enforcement officers in Toronto, is cited in the Toronto Star and CP24.