A&S scholars sharing their expertise in the media this week

From the impact of the internet, social media and mobile technology on civil society, to reflections on Remembrance Day, 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.

November 6, 2020

• Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies PhD candidate Erick Laming comments on a proposed pilot project that would see Indigenous-led crisis response teams replace uniformed police officers on emergency calls and wellness checks in east Toronto in CBC News.
• Jessica Green, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the School of the Environment, discusses the Paris Climate Agreement in the wake of the U.S. presidential election in CBC News.
• Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy distinguished fellow David Mulroney writes a Globe and Mail op-ed examining religious freedom in China.
• Matti Siemiatycki, a professor in the Department of Geography & Planning and interim director of the School of Cities, comments on the introduction of toll roads in Alberta in Edmonton’s CityNews.

November 7, 2020

• John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab at the Munk School, speaks about targeted anonymous text messages traced to service operated by a member of U.S. president Donald Trump’s re-election campaign team in CTV News.
• Department of Political Science lecturer Ryan Hurl comments on the inability of U.S. president Donald Trump in using executive powers to invalidate the result of the election in CBC News.
• Shira Lurie, a fellow in early American history at University College, comments on the political climate in the United States following the election and hopes for uniting the country in the National Post.
• Professor Peter Loewen in the Department of Political Science and the Munk School comments on the perspectives of Canadians on the U.S. election and Donald Trump’s presidency in Maclean’s.

November 8, 2020

• Department of Political Science professor Nelson Wiseman comments on what the election of Joe Biden as president of the United States might mean for the extradition case against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Ming Pao Canada.

November 9, 2020

• Department of Political Science professor Clifford Orwin pens an op-ed in the Globe and Mail about restoring democracy in the United States after the presidential election.
• Shira Lurie, along with Renan Levine of the University of Toronto Scarborough, comments in a Global News story about the projection of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States and Donald Trump’s refusal to concede in spite of a history of candidates doing so.
• Professor Drew Fagan of the Munk School joins a discussion on TVO’s The Agenda examining the most recent budget tabled by the Government of Ontario.
• Department of Political Science professor Ron Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School, delivers the first segment of the six-part Massey Lectures series on the impact of the internet, social media and mobile technology on civil society on CBC Radio’s Ideas. Deibert also previews the series on The Current.

November 10, 2020

• Hugh Segal, a distinguished fellow at the Munk School, discusses the importance of conceding gracefully after an election on CBC Radio’s Ontario Today.
• University Professor Janice Stein of the Department of Political Science and the Munk School suggests that the United States’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic is the most important thing for Canada following the presidential election in the New York Times.

November 11, 2020

• Department of Anthropology PhD candidate and veteran Walter Callaghan speaks on Remembrance Day about how veterans are coping with the pandemic in Huffington Post, and about how Canadians can better support veterans generally on CBC News Network.
• Professor emeritus Margaret MacMillan of the Department of History and the Munk School marks Remembrance Day by discussing the importance of understanding war, the mistake of glamorizing it, and how Canada is affected by wars being fought elsewhere in the world on CBC Radio’s The Current.
• Chelsea Rochman, an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, comments on the omission of tampon applicators in Canada’s recently proposed ban on single-use plastics in CTV News.

November 12, 2020

• Department of Sociology associate professor Jooyoung Lee speaks about gun violence in Toronto on CP24.