May 10, 2024 by
A&S News
From polarization in Canada to housing affordability, 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.
May 3, 2024
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies Assistant Professor Patrick Watson discusses on CityNews: the Big Story podcast the concerns raised over police chases following a fatal wrong-way crash.
May 4, 2024
- Department of Political Science Assistant Professor Eric Merkley shares with The Globe and Mail (paywall) his research on polarization in Canada.
May 5, 2024
- Department of Psychology Professor Geoff MacDonald talks to Radio New Zealand about why some single people are happier than others.
May 6, 2024
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute Director Matti Siemiatycki comments for Global News online on Toronto’s construction season traffic.
May 7, 2024
- Department of Political Science Professor and Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Peter Loewen is noted in the The Globe and Mail (paywall) for appears before the House of Commons access to information committee on the impact of disinformation and misinformation on the work of parliamentarians.
- Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy University Professor Janice Stein says in the Canadian Press that time is running out to de-escalate the Israel-Hamas conflict.
May 8, 2024
- Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy University Professor Janice Stein shares with University Affairs the importance of active listening when discussing Israel and Hamas.
- School of Cities Director and Department of Geography & Planning Professor Karen Chapple and Department of Geography & Planning Professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute Director Matti Siemiatycki discuss housing affordability in the Toronto Star (paywall).
- Department of Geography & Planning Professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute Director Matti Siemiatycki tells the Toronto Star (paywall) that Toronto’s infrastructure is in dire shape, and comments for CP24 online on housing stock in Toronto.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Distinguished Fellow Paul Cadario comments for BNN Bloomberg on lending to African countries.
May 9, 2024
- Department of Earth Sciences and School of the Environment Professor Miriam L. Diamond comments for Forbes (paywall) on the safest materials for mattresses.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy Visiting Professor Farzana Afridi writes in
- Indian Express about India’s gender parity in socio-economic outcomes.