December 4, 2020 by
A&S News
From the transfer of the world’s oldest water to Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation to the economic impact of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy, 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.
November 27, 2020
- University Professor Barbara Sherwood Lollar of the Department of Earth Sciences discusses the recent transfer of a sample of her ancient find along with some of her research tools to Ingenium — Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation in the Globe and Mail (paywall).
- Erick Laming, a PhD candidate at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, discusses First Nations police services in a TVO Online article.
- Tomas Hachard, Manager of Programs and Research at the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy writes about the imbalance of expectations versus powers for municipalities in CBC Online.
November 28, 2020
- CTV News covers earth sciences professor Barbara Sherwood Lollar’s transfer of a sample of the world’s oldest water to Ingenium.
November 29, 2020
- Professor Mark Kingwell of the Department of Philosophy explains how risk influences behaviour on CBC: Sunday Magazine (starts at 20:16).
December 1, 2020
- Neil Desai, a senior fellow at the Munk School, writes about cybersecurity in a Globe and Mail (paywall) op-ed.
- Vice highlights new research published by the Citizen Lab at the Munk School that found evidence of cellphone surveillance in Europe, the Middle East and Australia.
- Neil Desai writes about Statistics Canada’s annual report on police-reported crime for 2019, how Canada is failing to keep children safe online and how police could address the issue in a National Post (paywall) op-ed.
December 2, 2020
- Professor Shari Eli of the Department of Economics talks about her research on government cash transfer programs in the Financial Post (paywall).
December 3, 2020
- Professor Chelsea Rochman of the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology is highlighted for her award-winning work on microplastics in a Maclean’s op-ed penned by the Rt. Hon. David Johnston, chair of the Rideau Hall Foundation and 28th Governor General of Canada and Paul Davidson, president of Universities Canada.
- Margaret MacMillan, a professor in the Department of History and the Munk School receives a CBC Books pick for one of top Canadian nonfiction releases of the year, for her book War: How Conflict Shaped Us.
- Professor Michael Smart of the Department of Economics writes about the impact of the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy in a Financial Post (paywall) op-ed.