February 4, 2022 by
A&S News
From musings on how the pandemic may shape human nature, to the reasons why a controversial British Vogue cover falls short in celebrating Black models, 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.
January 28, 2022
- Department of Geography & Planning and School of Cities professor Matti Siemiatycki comments on the end of Toronto's self-driving transit pilot project in the Toronto Star, and the importance of transit-oriented communities in Real Estate News Exchange.
- For Best Health, Department of Anthropology professor Marcel Danesi discusses increased interest in craft kits for adults during the pandemic.
- Throughout the week, The Guardian, The Washington Post and the National Post report on cybersecurity concerns at the Olympics, referencing the recent discovery of security flaws in the ‘My2022’ app by the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.
- Rafael Gomez, associate professor of employment relations and director of the Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources, comments on how terminating unvaccinated workers may affect staff morale for TVO online.
January 29, 2022
- In the Toronto Star, Department of Economics professor emeritus Gustavo Indart writes about the hype surrounding inflation and why gradually increasing interest rates is an ideal strategy.
- Hugh Segal, distinguished fellow of the Munk School, argues in the Toronto Star that the Canadian Forces should increase in size and scope.
- Director of the Munk School and professor in the Department of Political Science, Peter Loewen participates in public hearings on electoral reform in the Yukon, as covered by the Yukon News.
January 30, 2022
- Department of History professor emerita Margaret MacMillan and Department of Psychology professor Paul Bloom discuss how the pandemic compares to historical conflicts and how it may shape human nature on CBC Radio’s The Sunday Edition.
January 31, 2022
- For Al Jazeera, Rinaldo Walcott of the Women & Gender Studies Institute writes about how the latest British Vogue cover reproduces racist practices in the fashion industry.
- Matti Siemiatycki talks about why affordable housing should have been a requirement for the sale of public land in Mississauga in CBC News online and Radio-Canada.
- Department of Sociology PhD student Kayla Preston explains to the Toronto Star how the trucker protest highlights the evolution of polarization in Canada.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology professor Chelsea Rochman comments on British Columbia now accepting milk and milk-alternative containers as part of its container deposit recycling system for CBC News online.
- In the National Observer, Department of Earth Sciences professor Miriam Diamond discusses recent research on how chemical pollution is exceeding global limits of what is considered safe.
- On CBC Ideas, Rinaldo Walcott discusses what it means to “story our lives into existence” as part of a Massey lecture on Asia and the art of storytelling.
- The Citizen Lab’s exposure of Pegasus spyware hacks prompt calls for investigations in El Salvador, as reported by Reuters.
February 1, 2022
- Department of Chemistry professor Mark Lautens writes about the best practices for testing students online in The Globe and Mail.
- Department of Sociology professor Scott Schieman comments on how social pressures and perceived bias could lower the appeal of working from home in The Globe and Mail.
- In the Associated Press, political science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman comments on the differences between Canadian and American attitudes towards the unvaccinated.
February 2, 2022
- Nelson Wiseman comments on the implications of Erin O’Toole’s removal as Conservative Party leader in The Washington Post and on CBC Radio.
- Mark Kersten, fellow in the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict & Justice at the Munk School, writes in The Globe and Mail about the dangers of defining COVID-19 vaccine mandates as “crimes against humanity.”
- Department of Political Science professor and Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert and Lab senior researcher John Scott-Railton discuss the FBI’s decision to purchase the surveillance tool Pegasus in the Associated Press and The Washington Post.
February 3, 2022
- Radio-Canada International revisits the evolution of the Haitian diaspora in Quebec with Department of History professor Sean Mills in a discussion about his book A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians and the Remaking of Quebec.