December 20, 2024 by
A&S News
From political chaos in Ottawa to the fall of Syria’s Assad regime, 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.
December 13, 2024
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Drew Fagan discusses with Global News online Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s threat to stop energy exports to the U.S.
- Department of English professor Ian Williams is recognized by CBC online for his book What I Mean to Say.
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies professor Scot Wortley comments for The Globe and Mail (paywall) on youth violence and crime in Canada.
December 14, 2024
- Department of Political Science PhD candidate Gamal Mansour talks to CTV News about the future of Syria following the fall of the Assad regime.
December 15, 2024
- Department of Political Science PhD candidate Valérie Kindarji discusses digital misinformation in 2024 on TVO: Big [If True].
December 16, 2024
- Department of Political Science assistant professor, teaching stream Elizabeth McCallion and Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman discuss with CBC Radio: Here and Now, Reuters and CNN online Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s resignation.
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources professor and director Rafael Gomez comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on Canada Post workers returning to work.
- New School of Cities research about transit projects costs in Canada is highlighted in the Calgary Sun.
December 17, 2024
- Department of Political Science assistant professor, teaching stream Elizabeth McCallion talks to Vox online and CHCH TV about the future of Canadian politics.
- Department of History professor emeritus Robert Bothwell and Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman talk to the Associated Press about the political chaos in Ottawa.
- Victoria University instructor Kathleen Wynne discusses the political chaos in Ottawa on CTV: Power Play.
- Department of Geography & Planning postdoctoral fellow Mashrur Rahman shares with blogTO his study on the state of wages for rideshare drivers.
December 18, 2024
- Eugene Lang, senior fellow of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at Trinity College, writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about Canada’s military spending.
December 19, 2024
- Department of Computer Science assistant professor Gennady Pekhimenko shares with The Logic (paywall) how his startup, CentML, helps companies develop AI models faster.
- Human Biology Program sessional lecturer Kerry Bowman explains to CBC News online the threshold of capacity for patients requesting MAID.
- Department of Cell & Systems Biology professor John Peever is credited in the National Post (paywall) for his sleep paralysis discoveries.
- Department of Political Science assistant professor Olga Chyzh writes in The Guardian about the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine war.
- Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman discusses in the Associated Press Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s anticipated cabinet shuffle.
- Researchers of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy are noted by Al Jazeera for uncovering Pegasus spyware use between 2019 to 2023.