September 2, 2022 by
A&S News
From the legacy of Moscow’s chief rabbi to quantifying the amount of anger in a population, 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.
August 27, 2022
- Department of Economics professor emeritus Gustavo Indart writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) that workers may benefit from Canada adopting a higher inflation target than 2 per cent.
August 28, 2022
- Director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies and Al and Malka Green professor of Yiddish and Diaspora Studies in the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Anna Shternshis, discusses on BBC Radio 4: Sunday the legacy of Moscow’s Rabbi Goldschmidt, as he leaves Russia amid pressure to support the war (interview begins at 02:32).
- Matti Siemiatycki, professor in the Department of Geography & Planning and director of the Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities, talks to CTV News online and Newstalk1010 Moore in the Morning about population growth and the pressures on infrastructure in Ontario.
August 29, 2022
- Department of Sociology associate professor Jooyoung Lee, who is also a faculty member of the Centre for the Study of the United States at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, comments for CTV News on the flaws of a new survey that proports to measure the rate of anger across Canada.
- The Ottawa Citizen (paywall) describes Department of Economics professor Michael Baker’s study which found that Ontario teacher strikes have a significantly negative impact on test score growth.
August 31, 2022
- Dan Breznitz, University Professor in the Department of Political Science and co-director of the Munk School’s Innovation Policy Lab, talks to BetaKit about helping shape the Canadian government’s approach to innovation