December 17, 2021 by
A&S News
From prospects for the economic recovery of public transit in Montreal to an online hoax targeting women in India with fake offers of employment at Harvard University, 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 10, 2021
- Department of Geography & Planning and School of Cities professor Matti Siemiatycki comments in the Montreal Gazette on the prospects for the economic recovery of public transit in Montreal.
- Christopher Parsons, a senior research associate with the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, comments in Global News on the rise of surveillance capitalism in which companies gather data on consumers and then sell it to other parties for their own use.
December 11, 2021
- Department of Sociology professor and chair Scott Schieman co-authors a Toronto Star op-ed with PhD candidate Phil Badawy examining new legislation in Ontario designed to protect workers from having to tend to work-related matters outside of regular working hours.
December 12, 2021
- Lynette Ong, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Asian Institute at the Munk School, speaks on CBC Radio’s Cross-Country Checkup about the diplomatic boycott of the Olympic games in China by several nations around the world.
December 13, 2021
- Robyn Maynard, a PhD student in the Women & Gender Studies Institute and the author of Policing Black Lives, writes an op-ed in the Toronto Star examining the continued expansion of the budgets and powers of police organizations in Canada, despite recent global protests calling for change in how police forces function.
- Aurel Braun, a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Centre for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies at the Munk School, comments in the National Post on the meaning of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s recent revelation that he was once a taxi driver.
December 14, 2021
- Broken Dawn Blessings, the latest collection of poems from Victoria College’s Vic One program professor Adam Sol, is among CBC Books’ choices of the best Canadian poetry of 2021.
December 15, 2021
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology assistant professor Chelsea Rochman speaks on CTV’s Your Morning about the effectiveness of adding filters to washing machines to reduce microfibre pollution in lakes, rivers and drinking water.
- John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab, comments in Wired on the sophistication of the digital spyware recently used to infect iPhones and other Apple devices.
December 16, 2021
- Matti Siemiatycki comments in the National Post on the potential impact of redevelopment projects proposed for the East Harbour and Port Lands areas of Toronto.
- John Scott-Railton speaks in NPR and Bloomberg about an announcement by digital technology company Meta — the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — that it has banned seven surveillance companies accused of targeting tens of thousands of users in order to collect sensitive information.
- Bill Marczak, a senior research fellow at the Citizen Lab, comments in the New York Times (paywall) on an online hoax targeting women in India with fake offers of employment at Harvard University.