August 29, 2024 by
A&S News
From the recent labour dispute at Canada’s two largest rail companies to Canada’s rising wildfire carbon emissions, 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.
August 22, 2024
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources Director and Professor Rafael Gomez discusses on BNN Bloomberg the economic and political impacts of a national rail stoppage, at the onset of a lock out of Canadian rail workers.
August 24, 2024
- Department of Political Science Associate Professor Olga Chyzh contributes to a panel discussion in The Guardian examining Ukraine’s future as it marks its third independence day since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
August 25, 2024
- John Scott-Railton, senior researcher with the Citizen Lab, at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, comments in the Washington Post (paywall) on the detention in France of the CEO of popular social media platform Telegram.
August 26, 2024
- Department of Political Science Professor Emeritus David Wolfe speaks with the Financial Post about new tariffs on electric vehicles made in China and destined for Canada.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy-affiliated Professor Phil Triadafilopoulos comments in CBC News on the federal government’s announcement to reduce the number of temporary foreign workers coming into Canada.
- Rafael Gomez comments in The Globe and Mail on contract negotiations with unions following several years of rising inflation in Canada.
August 27, 2024
- John Scott-Railton comments in the Globe and Mail and Forbes on the privacy and encryption features of social media platform Telegram following the detention of its CEO in France.
August 28, 2024
- Department of Physics Associate Professor Debra Wunch shares with the Toronto Star (paywall) her research on Canada’s rising wildfire carbon emissions.
- Department of Anthropology Professor Max Friesen shares with Canadian Geographic his research on beluga whale populations.
- Department of Anthropology Professor Emeritus Marcel Danesi comments for Salon on the 2024 United States elections.