November 19, 2021 by
A&S News
From proposals to build two new highways in the Greater Toronto Area to potential solutions to the supply chain crisis in Canada, 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 12, 2021
- Department of Geography & Planning and School of Cities professor Matti Siemiatycki participates in a discussion on TVO’s The Agenda about the Ontario government’s plans to build two new highways in the Greater Toronto Area.
- Department of Political Science and School of the Environment associate professor Jessica Green writes in Foreign Affairs (paywall) about how reforms to international tax and trade rules might help to combat climate change.
November 13, 2021
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies professor emerita Mariana Valverde argues in the Toronto Star against maintaining blanket authority over municipalities in Ontario by the provincial government.
November 15, 2021
- Department of Economics professor Michael Smart comments in the Globe and Mail (paywall) on rising interest rates, unemployment and efforts by governments to manage inflation in the 1970s.
- A report co-authored by Christopher Parsons, a senior research associate with the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, is cited in a National Post story examining calls to ban the use of technology provided by Huawei in the construction of 5G digital communication networks in Canada.
- Munk School professor Mel Cappe speaks in iPolitics about the role of mandate letters in shaping the work of ministers in the Canadian government.
November 16, 2021
- Department of Political Science associate professor Seva Gunitsky comments in the New York Times (paywall) on the decline in democracy among countries aligned with the United States.
- Department of English professor George Elliott Clarke discusses Africadia and the cultural geography of Black Nova Scotia in Canadian Geographic.
- Department of Sociology associate professor Jooyoung Lee is cited in a CBC News story about efforts by the Ontario government to combat gun violence.
November 17, 2021
- Sajeev John, a University Professor in the Department of Physics, is celebrated in CTV News, CBC News and the Globe and Mail on being awarded Canada’s top science prize, the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering.
- Professor Dan Breznitz of the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School and the Department of Political Science joins a discussion on TVO’s The Agenda about potential solutions to the supply chain crisis in Canada.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology assistant professor Chelsea Rochman comments in a TVO story on a fish caught in Lake Ontario in 2015 by her research team that contained a world record 915 plastic particles.
November 18, 2021
- Toronto Life names Department of Computer Science professor Raquel Urtasun among the top 50 most influential people in Toronto for 2021.
- Victoria College professor Ira Wells writes a Toronto Star op-ed examining the art and politics embodied in the literary works of Canadian author Margaret Atwood, particularly with respect to feminism.