March 19, 2021 by
A&S News
From the 30th anniversary of a Canada-United States agreement to reduce acid rain, to increasing awareness of anti-Asian racism, 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.
March 12, 2021
- Department of Political Science professor Nelson Wiseman comments in Toronto’s CityNews on the 30th anniversary of a treaty between Canada and the United States to reduce acid rain.
March 13, 2021
- Kate Neville, an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of the Environment, speaks in CBC News about her new book that looks at how communities in Yukon and Kenya protested against proposed energy projects.
March 14, 2021
- Matti Siemiatycki, a professor in the Department of Geography & Planning and interim director of the School of Cities, comments in a CTV News story about repairs to the Scarborough RT operated by the Toronto Transit Commission.
- Research led by Bill Marczak, a senior research fellow with the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, is cited in a South China Morning Post story examining the use and control of the internet in China.
March 15, 2021
- In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing socializing between people outdoors, Michael Chazan, a professor in the Department of Anthropology, discusses on CBC Radio’s The Current, the long history of humans gathering around fires (listen at 42:05).
March 16, 2021
- Dimitry Anastakis, a professor in the Department of History and the Rotman School of Management, comments in the Financial Post on the proposed purchase by Rogers Communications of rival Shaw Communications.
March 17, 2021
- Department of Sociology associate professor Jooyoung Lee speaks in CTV News about mental health concerns among Asians in Canada following a mass shooting in the U.S., and CBC Radio’s Here & Now about anti-Asian racism and the vicarious trauma felt by Asians everywhere.
- Department of Psychology professor Jessica Sommerville comments in the Toronto Star on the impact of the pandemic on new parents.
- Professor Dan Breznitz of the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and the Department of Political Science, coauthors an op-ed in the Financial Post examining Canada’s need to advance digital fluency in order to make the most of the country’s innovation potential.
March 18, 2021
- Jooyoung Lee comments in the Washington Post about an increase in anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic, and in a Flare story about increasing awareness of anti-Asian racism.
- Lynette Ong, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Asian Institute at the Munk School, discusses in Global News potential outcomes of the trials of two Canadians detained in China.
- Department of Sociology professor and chair Scott Schieman comments in a BBC.com story on an erosion of trust between colleagues working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Christopher Parsons, a senior research associate in the Citizen Lab, speaks in a CBC News story about the use by police of technology that unlocks and extracts information from cellphones.