February 5, 2021 by
A&S News
From guidelines in the use of body cameras by Toronto police officers to the influence of censorship on artificial intelligence, 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 29, 2021
- Department of Economics professor Michael Smart comments in the Globe and Mail on the discrepancy between how the federal government portrays the Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy and how the program actually functions.
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies PhD student Erick Laming speaks about Toronto Police Service guidelines on the use of body cameras in a CBC News story.
January 30, 2021
- Matti Siemiatycki, a professor in the Department of Geography & Planning and interim director of the School of Cities, examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed urban planning challenges in a toronto.com story.
- Professor Dan Breznitz of the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and the Department of Political Science, speaks on CBC News about Canada’s lack of innovation capabilities, particularly regarding vaccine production.
January 31, 2021
- Nazanin Khazra, an assistant professor, teaching stream in the Department of Economics, comments in the Toronto Star on changing United States immigration policies, including from personal experience.
- Professor emeritus Margaret MacMillan of the Department of History and the Munk School comments in a Bloomberg op-ed on the value of studying past wars and conflicts to understand contemporary society.
February 2, 2021
- Anver Emon, director of the Institute of Islamic Studies and a professor in the Department of History and Faculty of Law, comments in the Toronto Star on the Canadian government’s designation of January 29 as the National Day of Remembrance of the Quebec City Mosque Attack and Action Against Islamophobia.
February 3, 2021
- Department of Chemistry professor Doug Stephan and Department of Philosophy and Faculty of Law professor Arthur Ripstein, are celebrated in the Toronto Star for each being awarded a Killam Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts.
- Department of Political Science professor Nelson Wiseman comments in the Washington Post on the Canadian government’s designation of the Proud Boys extremist group as a terrorist organization.
- Bill Marczak, a senior research fellow with the Citizen Lab at the Munk School, comments in a Vice story about a fake version of popular digital messaging platform WhatsApp developed by hackers.
February 4, 2021
- Department of Computer Science professor Graeme Hirst is cited in a Wired story examining how censorship can influence artificial intelligence.
- A story in The Walrus promoting the benefits of walking in the winter, especially during the pandemic, cites a report on urban walkability co-authored by Department of Geography & Planning associate professor Paul Hess.