September 23, 2022 by
A&S News
From Canadian attitudes on its constitutional monarchy to protests in Iran sparked by the death of a woman at the hands of the country’s morality police, 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.
September 16, 2022
- Department of Political Science assistant professor Eric Merkley discusses with CBC News online the surge in new donations to the federal Conservative Party of Canada, and the challenge of keeping political party supporters engaged.
- Women & Gender Studies Institute professor Rinaldo Walcott comments for CBC News online on how members of Canada's African diaspora regard Queen Elizabeth II, and the monarchy’s harmful legacy of slavery and colonialism.
- School of the Environment assistant professor Hanna Morris shares with The Washington Post (paywall) advice for how to talk about climate change in a way that elicits solutions.
- Michael Valpy, senior fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and instructor at St. Michael’s College, explains to NPR: All Things Considered why only 35 per cent of Canadians support its constitutional monarchy.
- Department of Art History associate professor Joseph Clarke writes in The Globe & Mail (paywall) that the consensus needed for Canada to become a republic is unimaginable.
September 17, 2022
- Munk School senior fellow Sean Speer tells CBC Radio: The House and CBC online that long-term planning is needed to alleviate Canada’s affordability crisis.
- Peter Loewen, director of the Munk School and professor of political science, comments for The New York Times (paywall) on sentiments towards King Charles III.
September 18, 2022
- Department of Economics professor Michael Smart tells CTV News online that imposing a windfall tax on the Canadian oil and gas industry is not warranted.
September 19, 2022
- Department of Anthropology professor Marcel Danesi's book The Semiotics of Emoji: The Rise of Visual Language in the Age of the Internet is highlighted in the Tehran Times.
September 20, 2022
- School of Cities Canadian Urban Leader Don Iveson writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) that Toronto needs formal mechanisms of co-ordination to address pressing municipal issues.
- Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources assistant professor Padraic Scanlan, who is also cross-appointed to the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, discusses with CityNews online how the Queen’s passing will affect Canadians.
- Department of Anthropology PhD student Joseph Wilson writes in the Ottawa Citizen (paywall) about the importance of the social sciences in the context of COVID-19.
- Department of Computer Science University Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton is highlighted in the Korea Herald and Korea Times for meeting with the president of South Korea to discuss Canada’s success in artificial intelligence.
- School of Cities director and Department of Geography & Planning professor Karen Chapple comments for CBC News online on a new report that found activity in downtown Winnipeg is lagging behind other cities when it comes to pandemic economic recovery.
September 21, 2022
- Department of Earth Sciences professor Miriam Diamond shares her new research with The Guardian, The Independent (paywall), CTV News online and Global News online about high levels of toxic PFAS chemicals found in school uniforms across North America.
- Department of Political Science and Munk School university professor Janice Stein discusses on CBC Radio: The Current the opening of the United Nations General Assembly and challenges it seeks to address.
- Urbanist-in-residence at the School of Cities Kofi Hope shares with the Toronto Star (paywall) a recent report that found Scarborough and Etobicoke residents distrust Toronto city hall.
- Acting director and professor at the Women & Gender Studies Institute Shahrzad Mojab discusses on CBC Radio: The Current the outrage sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, who died after being arrested by Iran's morality police.
September 22, 2022
- Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics educational content developer Heidi White talks to the Toronto Star (paywall) about NASA’s upcoming DART mission, which will test a new method to deflect incoming asteroids by crashing spacecraft into them.
- Srilata Raman, professor, associate chair and undergraduate coordinator for the Department for the Study of Religion, shares with The Hindu (paywall) her research and writing on religion, and thoughts on critical thinking.