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

December 10, 2021 by A&S News

From a pitch to consider video games as works of art to the recall of a children’s jacket found to contain high levels of lead, 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.

December 3, 2021

December 6, 2021

  • Christopher Parsons, a senior research associate with the Citizen Lab at the Munk School, comments in Global News on a new mandate for Canada’s Communications Security Establishment to conduct cyber investigations to disrupt foreign-based threats.

December 7, 2021

  • Swimming Back To Trout River, the debut novel from Department of East Asian Studies associate professor Linda Rui Feng that follows a father’s quest to reunite his family before his daughter’s twelfth birthday, set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, is among CBC Books’ choices of the best Canadian fiction of 2021.
  • Department of Geography & Planning and School of Cities professor Matti Siemiatycki comments in CBC News on the prospect of multi-year road closures in Toronto during the construction of new subway line.
  • Lynette Ong, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Asian Institute at the Munk School,  speaks on CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning about calls for Canadian government officials and diplomats to boycott next year’s Olympic games in China.
  • Scott McKnight, a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science and the Munk School, speaks on CTV News about how the recent release of two Canadians detained in China might factor into the Canadian government’s decision on allowing Chinese telecom company Huawei to help build Canada’s 5G wireless network.
  • Comments on Twitter by John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab, are cited in a Washington Post story about a policy aimed at curtailing the use of digital spyware produced by Israeli technology companies.
  • Department of Sociology PhD student Anson Au comments in USA Today on mental health taboos in South Korean culture, following the announcement of a hiatus by K-pop artists BTS.

December 8, 2021

December 9, 2021

  • Miriam Diamond speaks with CBC Television’s Marketplace about a recall of a children’s jacket sold by online retailer Shein found to contain high levels of lead.

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