August 20, 2021 by
A&S News
From the upcoming federal election to gun violence, 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.
August 13, 2021
- Peter Russell, a professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science, explains in the National Post the mechanics of calling a federal election in Canada.
August 15, 2021
- Robert Bothwell, a professor emeritus in the Department of History comments in the Washington Post on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s strategy to win elections.
August 16, 2021
- In CBC News, Jooyoung Lee, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, addresses gun violence and how the federal government can reduce it.
- On CBC News, fourth-year history student Fiona McCrow who was recently elected president of the University of Toronto History Students’ Association for 2021-2022 says she and her peers are looking for a broader, more inclusive portrait of the past.
- Nelson Wiseman, a professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science, comments in a Global News story that the election date could coincide with a peak of the current fourth wave of COVID-19.
August 19, 2021
- Department of Economics professor Michael Smart comments on CBC News on party politics ahead of the Canadian federal election.
- Naomi Nagy, a professor in the Department of Linguistics, discusses codeswitching on 660 News and how we judge people’s personalities based on the way they speak.