June 9, 2023 by
A&S News
From Apple entering the virtual-reality market to the economic impacts of forest fires, 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.
June 2, 2023
- Victoria College Professor on Public Policy and Society Sunil Johal discusses on Newstalk1010 the state of provincial funding for healthcare.
June 3, 2023
- The Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy finds the lead investigator for Mexico’s truth commission was hacked, as reported by The Washington Post (paywall).
June 5, 2023
- Department of Spanish & Portuguese PhD candidate Alejandro Soifer discusses on CBC Radio: Ideas his thesis on violence in Mexican literature, with his PhD supervisor, Professor Susan Antebi.
- Department of Anthropology PhD student Joseph Wilson writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about AI fatigue.
- Book and Media Studies Associate Professor and Program Coordinator at St. Michael’s College, Paolo Granata, comments for CBC Business online on Apple and Meta competing in the virtual reality realm.
June 6, 2023
- Department of Economics PhD student Hugo Cordeau writes in the National Observer about the social cost of carbon, and talks to Radio-Canada about the economic impact of forest fires.
- School of Cities Director and Department of Geography & Planning Professor Karen Chapple writes for TVO online about public safety, a key issue in Toronto’s mayoral race.
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources Director and Professor Rafael Gomez comments for CTV Windsor online on the Windsor Salt workers strike.
June 7, 2023
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Director and Department of Political Science Professor Peter Loewen talks to The Logic (paywall) about the launch of the Canadian Digital Media Research Network.
- Department of Political Science PhD student Ashley Splawinski talks to CBC News Toronto about the Toronto mayoral election.
- Book and Media Studies Associate Professor and Program Coordinator at St. Michael’s College, Paolo Granata, discusses on TVO: The Agenda how the thinking of Canadian media theorist and futurist Marshall McLuhan applies to today’s media ecosystem.
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies Professor Emeritus Anthony Doob argues in the Toronto Star (paywall) that the risk assessment for Paul Bernardo trumps emotions.
- Jack Cunningham, program director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and fellow at Trinity College, discusses on CHML Radio the destruction of the Khakova dam in Ukraine (22:48 minute mark).
June 8, 2023
- Department of Psychology Professor Donna Rose Addis shares insights with Scientific American (paywall) on memory’s relationship to imagination.
- Department of Anthropology Professor Ivan Kalmar writes in the Ottawa Citizen (paywall) about the extradition of Canadian academic Hassan Diab.