October 25, 2024 by
A&S News
From the latest developments in Canadian politics to the secret language of plants and fungi, 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.
October 18, 2024
- Department of Political Science and School of the Environment professor Jessica Green comments for The Nation on the U.S. presidential election.
October 19, 2024
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Department of Political Science University Professor Dan Breznitz writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about Canada’s potential for prosperity.
October 21, 2024
- Department of East Asian Studies assistant professor Michelle Cho talks to CBC Radio: Commotion (interview begins at 16:42) and CBC Arts online about reactions in South Korea to Han Kang’s Nobel Prize win.
- Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance, School of Cities director Enid Slack discusses on CityNews the City of Toronto’s budget consultations with residents.
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy senior fellow Brian Lewis writes in TVO online about Ontario's upcoming fall economic statement.
- John Scott-Railton, senior researcher at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy’s Citizen Lab, comments for Wired (paywall) on the importance of regulating mercenary spyware.
- Department of English professor and vice-dean, undergraduate at the Faculty of Arts & Science Randy Boyagoda shares with The Tyee on how his first young adult novel Little Sanctuary explores the complex lives of Black, Indigenous and people of colour in the global south.
October 22, 2024
- Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman comments for the Associated Press on the “shelf life” of Canadian prime ministers.
October 23, 2024
- Department of Political Science professor and Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert shares with CTV News online reports on misuse of Sandvine’s technology in Egypt.
- Department of Cell & Systems Biology assistant professor Shelley Lumba shares with Earth her research on how plants and fungi communicate underground.
- School of the Environment instructor Keith Stewart writes in the Hamilton Spectator about Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre meeting with oil lobbyists.
- Department of Economics and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Jonathan Ostry writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about Canada’s productivity problem.
- Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy University Professor Janice Stein discusses on TVO: The Agenda Canada-India relations.
- Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman comments for CityNews online and Regina Leader-Post on pressure on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down, and the Saskatchewan election.
October 24, 2024
- Department of Computer Science professor Jimmy Ba is featured on the Business Insider AI Power List for his work on Elon Musk’s xAI and advancing machine learning knowledge at the university, with mention of University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton.
- Department of Sociology professor Scott Schieman comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on how some Toronto residents are renting out their apartments to people attending the upcoming Taylor Swift concerts.
- Department of Psychology professor (status only) Jennifer Campos shares with Global News highlights on the AGE-WELL conference on technology and aging.
- Department of Political Science professor emeritus Nelson Wiseman talks to the Associated Press about Canada’s immigration target cut, and again to the Associated Press about the latest developments in Canadian politics.