October 8, 2021 by
A&S News
From the impact of “iceberg homes” with large basements, to the popularity of Netflix’s blockbuster Squid Game, to the Pandora Papers financial leak, 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 1, 2021
- On CBC News, Miriam Diamond, a professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, talks about finding high levels of toxic chemicals and heavy metals in clothing items bought online from “fast-fashion” retailers.
October 4, 2021
- Ian Burton, a professor emeritus from the Department of Geography & Planning, shares his insights with CBC News on the new report from the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices which says Canadians are buying homes at high risk of flooding, wildfires and other climate change impacts.
- Matti Siemiatycki, a professor in the Department of Geography & Planning, discusses in the Globe and Mail whether the community of Oakville is a “town” or “city,” and why it matters.
- In a story in Global News about the “Pandora Papers” financial leak, Department of Economics professor Michael Smart explains the implications of tax-haven jurisdictions.
October 5, 2021
- On CTV News, Michelle Cho, an assistant professor from the Department of East Asian Studies, explains why the new Netflix series, Squid Game, is so popular and on track to be the streaming service’s most popular series ever.
- Department of Sociology PhD student Jordan Foster writes in Yahoo! News Canada about Kim Kardashian’s “shapewear” brand Skims and the Kardashian family’s relationship with body augmentation.
October 6, 2021
- Karen Chapple, a professor in the Department of Geography & Planning comments in the Hamilton Spectator about “iceberg homes” — homes with multi-storey basements — and their impact on the city and the climate crisis.
- In a CTV News story, Emily Deibert, a PhD student in the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics describes the extreme conditions — including iron rainfall — discovered on a planet outside our solar system.
October 7, 2021
- For CBC News, Michelle Cho, an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, talks about the challenges of translating dialogue in Netflix’s popular series from Korea, Squid Game.
- In Education News Canada, Jean-Bernard Caron, an associate professor in the departments of Earth Sciences and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (EEB), and Joe Moysiuk, an EEB PhD student, describe their discovery of the remains of a huge new fossil species belonging to an extinct animal group.