May 2, 2025 by
A&S News
From insights on voter behaviour to key issues facing the new prime minister, 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.
April 25, 2025
- Department of Earth Sciences and School of the Environment professor Miriam L. Diamond shares with Yahoo! and ScienceAlert her research on harmful chemicals in children’s mattresses.
- School of Cities adjunct professor Carolyn Whitzman discusses in The Globe and Mail (paywall) and The Province (paywall) potential solutions to Canada’s housing crisis.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy senior fellow Brian Lewis writes for TVO online about economic issues in the federal election.
- Department of Geography & Planning professor and School of Cities director Karen Chapple and Department of Geography & Planning professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute director Matti Siemiatycki discuss in the Toronto Star (paywall) the housing crisis in Canada.
- School of Cities urbanist-in-residence Lanrick Bennett Jr. advocates in Spacing for Toronto to rename its wards with Indigenous names to honor the city’s history and promote reconciliation.
- Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations professor emeritus Ronald Leprohon talks to LiveScience about the tomb of an ancient Egyptian prince discovered at Saqqara.
- Incoming professor Jason Stanley talks to Rolling Stone (paywall) about joining the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.
April 26, 2025
- Department of Economics and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy associate professor Peter Morrow comments for Economic Times India and The Globe and Mail (paywall) on Canada’s economic future.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy senior fellow Jon Allen writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about diversity in political views among Canadian Jews.
- Department of Political Science and School of the Environment professor Jessica Green discusses in The New York Times (paywall) the issue of climate change in Canada’s election.
- Jack Cunningham, program director of the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History and assistant professor at Trinity College, writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about key tasks for the next prime minister.
- Department of Computer Science University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton talks to CBS News about the potential for AI to become superintelligent.
- Department of Political Science assistant professor Eric Merkley comments for The Globe and Mail (paywall) on the spike in mail-in votes, and for The Local on the Conservative strategy of avoiding mainstream media.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy University Professor Janice Stein tells the Washington Post (paywall) that Donald Trump’s talk of annexing Canada is counterproductive.
April 27, 2025
- Department of Political Science and Munk School Asian Institute associate professor Lynette Ong talks to The New York Times (paywall) about the federal election.
April 28, 2025
- Department of Political Science assistant professor Semra Sevi shares key insights with CNN, NPR Podcast: Consider This and CTV online to kick off election day.
- Department of Classics professor Seth Bernard comments for CBC Radio: As It Happens on the discovery of bite marks, likely from a lion, on a man buried in a cemetery for ancient Roman gladiators in England.
April 29, 2025
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Drew Fagan talks to Sky News about the election results.
- Department of Political Science professor emeritus Larry Leduc discusses with Sky News Australia and the Canadian Press the Liberal Party’s victory.
- Department of Economics and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy associate professor Peter Morrow comments for The Guardian and Economic Times on U.S.-Canada relations.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Drew Fagan discusses the election results on CHCH News.
- Eugene Lang, senior fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at Trinity College, writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about the importance of Canada’s finance minister.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy senior fellow Akaash Maharaj talks to Global News online and Yahoo! about Donald Trump’s influence.
- Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman tells the Los Angeles Times (paywall) that the Liberals may need to rely on a smaller party if they fail to win a majority in Parliament.
- Department of Political Science assistant professor Eric Merkley discusses with Yahoo! the federal election in Canada.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy University Professor Janice Stein talks to the Financial Times (paywall) about why Canadians voted for Mark Carney.
April 30, 2025
- A report about cyberattacks on climate activists, issued by the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, is cited in the The New York Times (paywall).
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy senior fellow Akaash Maharaj comments for the National Post (paywall) on a minority Liberal government.
- Department of Political Science assistant professor Semra Sevi comments on the political preferences of younger voters and the broader electorate, for the Toronto Star (paywall).
- School of Cities adjunct professor Carolyn Whitzman expresses to ICI Radio-Canada online cautious optimism about the Liberal leader's housing plan.
- Department of Psychology assistant professor Felix Cheung discusses with CNN online and CBC online takeaways from the World Happiness Report.
- Department of Political Science assistant professor Eric Merkley comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on high voter turnout.
May 1, 2025
- Department of Philosophy professor Mark Kingwell writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about irritating train passengers.