September 13, 2024 by
A&S News
From environmental concerns about a new proposed highway to how idleness is important for sustainable work, 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.
September 6, 2024
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology professor Donald Jackson shares with the National Observer environmental concerns regarding Highway 413 running through the habitat of a species at risk.
- University of St. Michael’s College distinguished fellow Michael Higgins writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about Pope Francis's papacy.
- Department of Political Science professor and Citizen Lab director Ron Deibert shares with CTV News online a digital forensics report on tech company Sandvine.
- Department of Political Science and Munk School Asian Institute associate professor Lynette Ong discusses on CBC Radio: The Current China’s anti-dumping investigation into Canadian canola imports.
September 9, 2024
- Department of Political Science and School of the Environment associate professor Kate Neville talks to CBC Radio: The Current about her new book Going to Seed: Essays on Idleness, Nature, and Sustainable Work.
- Department of Political Science professor Clifford Orwin discusses on CBC Radio: Ideas the history of ancient Greek author Herodotus.
September 10, 2024
- Department of Psychology professor Nicholas Rule comments for The New York Times (paywall) on how U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s height influences how she is perceived.
September 11, 2024
- Human Biology Program sessional lecturer Kerry Bowman talks to CBC News online about the importance of consent and culturally sensitive care in hospitals after a Sikh man was shaved without consent while in hospital.
- Department of Economics PhD student Hugo Cordeau writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about whether farmland should be protected from clean energy projects.
September 12, 2024
- Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy professor Phillip Lipscy talks to CTV: Your Morning about Japan's ruling party leadership race (clip begins at 1:48:00).
- Department of History professor and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy affiliated faculty Andres Kasekamp discusses with CBC Radio: The Current Western aid to Ukraine during the war (clip begins at 12:18).
- Centre for Industrial Relations & Human Resources professor and director Rafael Gomez comments for the Toronto Star (paywall) on labour negotiations as the Air Canada pilots’ strike looms.
- Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy associate professor Seva Gunitsky comments for Al Jazeera on Russian foreign propaganda influencing Americans.