January 7, 2022 by
A&S News
From efforts to add more uniquely Canadian words to the Oxford English Dictionary to the discovery of spyware on mobile phones belonging to members of Polish opposition parties, 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 1, 2022
- Department of Linguistics professor and chair Sali Tagliamonte speaks on CBC News about her efforts to submit uniquely Canadian words to the Oxford English Dictionary.
- Lynette Ong, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, comments in The Guardian on the political and social stability concerns behind China’s zero-Covid policy.
- Department of Statistical Sciences professor Jeffrey Rosenthal comments in The Pointer on making the most of statistical data in spite of the interruption across society of the COVID-19 pandemic.
January 2, 2022
- Department of Political Science and Munk School professor Peter Loewen comments in a Globe and Mail story examining challenges for Canada in the event of the weakening of democracy in the United States.
January 3, 2022
- Department of Sociology professor and chair Scott Schieman comments in the Toronto Star on new legislation in Ontario designed to protect workers from having to tend to work-related matters outside of regular working hours.
- Department of Geography & Planning associate professor Jane Liu explains in Science News for Students that a portion of the lowest layer of Earth’s atmosphere has been growing in height above the northern hemisphere over the past 40 years, likely due to increased concentration of greenhouse gases.
- John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the Munk School’s Citizen Lab, comments in Bloomberg on the discovery of spyware on mobile devices belonging to political opponents of Poland’s governing Law and Justice party.
January 4, 2022
- Professor Rafael Gomez, director of the Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources, comments in the National Post on rising labour shortages across Canada due to the growing number of workers becoming ill with the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
January 5, 2022
- Lauren Lawson, a PhD student in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, writes an op-ed first published in The Conversation and reprinted in the Toronto Star describing the year-round threats to freshwater streams, lakes and drinking water from the application of road salt to icy surfaces in winter months.
January 6, 2022
- John Scott-Railton speaks in a Washington Post story about independent verification by Amnesty International that a mobile phone belonging to a Polish senator in opposition to the ruling government was hacked with spyware.