October 23, 2020 by
A&S News
From a government benefit designed to support workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, to suspected online interference with the United States election, 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.
October 16, 2020
- Department of Economics professor Michael Smart comments on the Canada Recovery Benefit designed to support self-employed workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in the Globe and Mail.
- A Financial Post story examines a post-pandemic economic recovery framework proposed by Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Drew Fagan and assistant professor Sean Speer.
October 17, 2020
- Department of Physics professor Stephen Morris demonstrates the amplification of energy released by a set of increasingly sized dominoes in an episode of CTV’s It Is Written examining the compound power of decision making.
October 19, 2020
- Chelsea Rochman, an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, comments on the effects of plastic particles on the human body in CTV News.
- Department of Political Science professor Nelson Wiseman explains why Canadians are paying attention to next month’s general election in the United States on CNN.
- Lynette Ong, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Asian Institute at the Munk School, comments on tensions in diplomatic relations between Canada and China in the Globe and Mail.
October 20, 2020
- Nelson Wiseman speaks about the potential consequences of a motion by the Conservative Party of Canada to establish a governmental anti-corruption committee in the Washington Post (paywall).
- John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab at the Munk School, speaks about the FBI investigation into intimidating email messages sent to voters in Florida on CNN and in the Washington Post.
October 21, 2020
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology professor Martin Krkosek speaks about how fish farms off the coast of British Columbia raise the risk of exposure to infectious diseases among wild salmon in a CBC story.
October 22, 2020
- Erick Laming, a PhD candidate at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, comments on the use of body cameras by RCMP officers in Nunavut in Nunatsiaq News.
- John Scott-Railton speaks again about the intimidation of American voters by email on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s radio program PM.