October 9, 2020 by
A&S News
From the upcoming election in the United States to an analysis of individual risk-taking during the COVID-19 pandemic, 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 2, 2020
- Randy Boyagoda, a professor in the Department of English and Vice-Dean, Undergraduate of the Faculty of Arts & Science, contributes a review of a new collection of non-fiction by Indian author Arundhati Roy to the Globe and Mail (paywall).
- Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy director Michael Sabia speaks about new spending plans by the Canada Infrastructure Bank, of which he is also the chair, in the Financial Post.
October 3, 2020
- Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies professor Scot Wortley speaks about approaches taken by police in de-escalating distress situations in a CBC News story.
- Past insights offered by Peter Russell, a University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science, are noted in a National Post story marking the 50th anniversary of the October crisis.
October 5, 2020
- Christopher Parsons, a senior research associate in the Citizen Lab at the Munk School, comments in a Globe and Mail story about the refusal of Canada’s Communications Security Establishment to confirm security and software defects in telecommunications equipment supplied to the United Kingdom by Chinese company Huawei.
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology postdoctoral researcher Tiziana A. Gelmi-Candusso comments on sightings of black foxes in Toronto in Narcity.
October 6, 2020
- Munk School distinguished fellow David Mulroney joins a panel discussion on TVO’s The Agenda exploring major issues affecting Canada/China relations.
- Department of Psychology PhD candidate Yoobin Park speaks about her research into what makes romantic relationships successful in Best Life.
October 7, 2020
- Mark Kingwell, a professor in the Department of Philosophy, offers an assessment of people’s approaches to risk taking on CBC Radio’s Here and Now, and how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the way some people make decisions.
- Ecology & Evolutionary Biology assistant professor Chelsea Rochman responds to the Canadian government’s announcement of a ban on single-use plastics on CBC News Network.
October 8, 2020
- Lynette Ong, an associate professor in political science and the Asian Institute at the Munk School, speculates on how U.S./China relations might be impacted by the outcome of next month’s election in the U.S. in a CBC News story.
- Political Science professor Ron Deibert, director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School, comments on efforts by the royal family of Saudi Arabia to monitor conversations and the whereabouts of dissidents anywhere in the world in an NPR story.