EUC Research Update – September/October 2025

Accolades, Awards and Acknowledgements

Ilan Kapoor has been inducted into the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), joining the Academy of Social Sciences as part of its class of 2025. Kapoor is among 102 new fellows elected by their peers, one of Canada’s highest honors for scholarly achievement and public impact.

Internationally recognized for his critical work in global politics and development, Kapoor has shaped two influential subfields: postcolonial development and psychoanalytic development studies. Quoting Kapoor: “This recognition highlights our continuing need to think critically about what is happening across our planet today.” The 2025 Fellows and members of the RSC College will be formally inducted at the Celebration of Excellence and Engagement in Montréal on November 14, 2025. More info on YFile.

Andil Gosine has been invited as a guest researcher for the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Foundation’s DEA Program (International Mobility Assistance) that allows university professors from all continents to carry out their Humanities and Social Science (SHS) work in France during stays lasting four to six weeks. His project on Visual Arts After Indenture: Félix Morin will be hosted by the Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (Cral – EHESS) in Paris. Created in 1975, at the initiative of Fernand Braudel, the “Associate Study Directors” (DEA) program is the oldest international mobility program of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Foundation.

Incidentally, Nature’s Wild with Andil Gosine (RETURNS) group exhibition will be held from October 10 – November 8, 2025 with an opening reception on Friday October 10, 7-10pm at the Paul Contemporary Art in Toronto. Everyone welcome!

Alison Bain received a SSHRC Insight Grant for her research on Queer cultural infrastructure and the remaking of inclusive cities: within and beyond Rainbow Cities Network recognition.

The project will advance knowledge on the role of queer cultural infrastructure (QCI) in municipal social inclusion agendas by comparing the governance regimes of cities inside and outside the international LGBTQ+ urban policy Rainbow Cities Network. It will challenge scholars, urban practitioners, and the public to imagine how QCI can augment LGBTQ+ recognition, wellbeing, and belonging in cities and will explore the many modalities of inclusion-enhancing QCI through a set of global urban case studies.

Lina Brand Correa received a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for her project on Floors and Ceilings: Minimum and Maximum Household Energy Uses for Just Climate Action in Canada and Ontario.

The project will explore, on the one hand, the possibility of establishing minimum energy service guarantees (for instance minimum/maximum temperature requirements in the winter/summer months in Ontario) and will identify gaps and proposed novel approaches to tackling energy poverty. On the other hand, the project will also explore mechanisms to limit energy use at excess levels, currently non-existing in Ontario.

Patricia Wood with Jennifer Korosi and Joshua Thienpont as co-applicants also received a SSHRC Insight Development Grant on their research Data in context: Historical and Political Geographies of First Nations’ stewardship on Lake Nipigon.

The project will build and strengthen the partnership between the Biinjitiwaabik Zaaging Anishinaabek (BZA) community members and academics to develop working relationships across different knowledge practices, and across social sciences and natural sciences. The project also aims to generate, gather, and integrate many sources of knowledge of Lake Nipigon. The project will lay the foundation for long-term research partnerships that include the environmental stewardship of the Lake and further capacity-building for the involved First Nations, equipping them to address future issues with greater access to contemporary and historical data.

Adeyemi Olusola received a York Black Research Seed Fund for his research on Hidden Figures: Mapping Flood Exposure Inequities in the Black Creek River Basin, Toronto, Canada.

The project addresses gaps in traditional modeling by combining satellite data, machine learning, and community input to create high-resolution flood risk maps for the Black Creek River Basin. The goal is to strengthen preparedness while highlighting and addressing disparities in flood exposure, particularly among marginalized groups. The seed fund supports early-stage and emerging research projects that help build research careers. The primary intent is to promote equitable and inclusive funding to help set roots for research projects and support future growth.

Sarah Flicker received a subgrant from McGill University for the project TRANSFORM: Engaging with Youth for Social Change.

This SSHRC partnership project led by Claudia Mitchel from the McGill Participatory Cultures Lab brings together 40 researchers, 16 universities, and 10 partner organizations —including NGOs, policy actors, and publishers— and hundreds of youth from around the world to study how young people are pivotal agents of change in gender equity, specifically through participatory visual and arts-based methodologies. Using participatory visual and other arts-based approaches, the project aims to study gender transformation by supporting and amplifying youth voices through Youth-to-Youth (Y2Y) spaces and youth-led agendas for social change.

Mark Winfield received a subgrant from University of Calgary for the Energy Modelling Hub (EMH) project, a pan-Canadian initiative led by the University of Calgary, Institut de l’énergie Trottier (Polytechnique Montréal), the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems (University of Victoria), and York University. The EMH bridges the gap between energy modelers, policymakers, and stakeholders to support evidence-based decision-making for an affordable, decarbonized, reliable, and equitable energy system in Canada.

Winfield will be working with Vanessa Smikle who has been recently appointed as Strategic Engagement Specialist for the project to advance EMH’s mission by fostering collaboration and strengthening relationships between Canada’s energy modelling community and its diverse stakeholders.

Laura Tanguay, ES PhD alumna, has recently been appointed as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead Scholars Program at Harvard University. Laura studies environmental and socio-legal issues related to Indigenous rights and nuclear energy in Canada. Her work bridges environmental justice, law reform, and Indigenous legal systems.

Her doctoral research on anomalies of consent in nuclear waste siting considers whether consent mechanisms embedded in Impact Assessments can result in more just processes. She examines aspects of consent (or lack thereof) within the nuclear-fuel-chain, and the relationship between militarism and extraction. Among others, her research interests cover environmental justice; consent processes in energy infrastructure siting; extractivism; environmental policy; legal pluralism; nuclear colonialism; and procedural justice in impact assessments.

The Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research has announced the recipients of the 2025–2026 Dahdaleh Global Health Graduate Scholarships.

This year’s scholars include EUC graduate students Hillary Birch, Ana Carolina de Almeida Cardoso, Nilanjana Ganguli, and Romeo Joe Quintero. Their research spans decolonial futures, planetary health, climate impacts on livelihoods, and displacement in conflict zones. Brian Waters has also received a renewal of his scholarship.

The scholarship was created to attract exceptional incoming and continuing domestic and international graduate research students to the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research. It supports graduate research and related scholarly and creative activities in line with the three themes of the Institute (planetary health, global health and humanitarianism, and global health foresighting).

To add, ES PhD candidate, Hillary Birch and her research team, Theresa Hambokoma and Trust Malawo, produced a policy report on water quality governance in Lusaka, Zambia, based on Hillary’s PhD fieldwork.

The findings were shared with study participants, including members of the Lusaka City Council and managers at the Chaisa Water Trust. The team will continue to share their results with other stakeholders in Lusaka over the coming months.

Work is underway on the 2026 edition of the National Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts. The 2026 edition of the National Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity Accounts (NEFBA) was started by a team of data analysts at York University (YU) and the University of Iceland (HI) which is part of the International Ecological Footprint Learning Lab (IEFLL). Continuing from previous editions, Eric Miller (YU) expertly led the production and innovation of the accounts, while Kiona Lo (YU) and Peri Dworatzek (YU) expanded the research and development of the accounts in relation to the partnership goals. Neha Basnet (YU) and Joanna Louise Van Berkum (HI) moved on to team leadership roles to train and support the new cohort of data analysts. The new additions to the team of data analysts producing the 2026 edition were Beatrice Foley, Bumika Srikanthalingam, and Anna Long, from York University in the EUC MES Program as well as Petra Dimitoriva Toneva, Marina Ermina, and Clara Klinkenberg from the University of Iceland.

Warm welcome to EUC’s new faculty member, Brandon Takayuki Hillier. Hillier is an economic geographer and urban researcher. His current work examines the complementarity between the Canadian educational system and American industry, with a special interest in empirically investigating the flow of engineering graduates from the Kitchener-Waterloo region to the Bay Area and New York. Key theoretical interests include conceptualizing cross-border labour markets and inter-regional labour regimes, educational and occupational decision-making, elite formation, and work culture. He currently teaches courses on introductory urban and environmental studies, urban methods, digital and urban futures, global cities, and professional development (for co-op). He previously studied Japan’s industrial development, central banks, and smart cities.

We wish to share the sad news that Dr. Bryn Greer-Wootten passed away on August 5, 2025. Bryn earned his PhD in Geography and Planning at McGill University, graduating in 1968 with a focus on Urban and Quantitative Geography. He joined the Department of Geography at York University in 1972 and was cross appointed to the Faculty of Environmental Studies in 1994. His early focus on quantitative geography shifted to qualitative and humanistic geography; he later focused on policy-based issues related to recycling and energy conservation in the context of climate change. Bryn was legendary in his commitment to students and their success, and long after his retirement in 2003, he was a regular participant at the weekly Geography colloquium. He will be missed!

Publications and Reports

Ali, S. H., Connolly, C., & Keil, R. (2025). Governing infectious disease in the urban periphery: marginality, informality and vulnerability. City, 1–23.

Bunnell, T., Spicer, Z., Miller, B., Abbruzzese, T., Cardullo, P., Chae, S., Chang, I. C., Charnock, G., Chung, M., Heo, K., Jou, S., Karvonen, A., Kordas, O., Kong, L., Ribera-Fumaz, R., Shin, H., & Woods, O. (2025). The citizen and the smart city: a global comparison of institutional logics. Urban Geography.

Fevrier, K. and Zalik, A. (2025). Can waste serve as a resource for energy transition? In Power Shift: Keywords for a New Politics on Energy edited by Imre Szeman and Jennifer Wenzel. West Virginia University Press.

Funk, L., Rotz, S. and Desmarais, A. (2025). Land data for whom? The marketization, privatization and commercialization of land data management in Canada. Geoforum, Vol 165.

Gebresselassie, M. (2025). Labor issues from the perspective of drivers on the Uber and Lyft apps and the impact on riders who use wheelchairs. Travel Behaviour and Society, 38.  

Gebresselassie, M., Michalek, J., Nock, D., & Harper, C. (2025). Analyzing disparities in app-hailed travel during extreme heat in New York City. Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment, 142, 104650.

Gingrich, K., Brand-Correa, L., Howarth, E., & Stratton, A. Degrowth in a settler state: climate-just economic transitions and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Ecological Economics, 232, 108549.

Kerekes, T., MacKeil, S., Elsayed, H., & Colla, S., R. (2025). Floral use competition between honey bees and bumble bees within an urban community. Cities and the Environment, 18(1).

Hyndman, J., & Bragg, B. (2025). From camps to plants: Protection meets productivity for resettled refugees. Geographical Review, 1-20.

Keil, R. (2025). The suburban frontier: Middle-Class construction in Dar es Salaam, by Claire Mercer, Oakland, California, University of California Press, 2024; The right to suburbia: Combating gentrification on the urban edge, by Willow Lung-Amam, Oakland, California, University of California Press, 2024. Journal of Urban Affairs, 1–4.

Kish, K. and Pal, K. (2025). Calculating the Biocapacity of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation Claims of Title and Treaty. The Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, 15(1).

Laura, F., Rotz S., and Desmarais. A. A., (2025). Land data for whom? The marketization, privatization and commercialization of land data management in Canada. Geoforum (Early Release, Actual Publication is in October).

Lehrer, U. and Keil, R. (2025). The Beaches: Creation of a Toronto Neighbourhood by Richard White. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 2024. 245 pages. Ontario History, Volume 117, Number 1, Spring, p. 129–132.

Liczner, A., R., Colla, S., R., & Fitch, G. (2025). Assessing pathogen risk for wild bumblebees (Bombus spp., Apidae) in Canada. Conservation Science and Practice, e70099.

Nia, Z. M., Prescod, C., Westin, M., Perkins, P., Goitom, M., Fevrier, K., Bawa, S., & Kong, J. D. (2025). Disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on socially vulnerable communities: the case of Jane and Finch in Toronto, Ontario. Frontiers in Public Health, 13.

Pourkarimi, E., Moreno, E., L., Etcheverry, J., & Poorhashemi, A. (2025). Legal and environmental analysis of Canada’s obligation to reduce carbon emissions. CIFILE Journal of International Law, e221459.

Scott, D. N. (2025). Infrastructural (Dis)Entitlement: tactics of dispossession on the critical minerals frontier. Journal of Law and Political Economy, 5(1).

Stiegman, M., and Birbiri. E. (2025). Food Studies and Disability Justice. Food Studies and Disability Justice Chapter in Oxford Bibliographies.

Strange, P., Colla, R., S., Adams, L., D., Duennes, M., A., Evans, E., C., Figueroa, L., L., Lehmann, D., M., Moylett, H., Richardson L., Sadd, B., M., Smith, J., W., Smith, T., A., Tripodi, A., D., Spevak, E., M., & Inouye, D., W. (2025). An evidence-based rationale for a North American commercial bumble bee clean stock certification program. Journal of Pollination Ecology, 1-13.

Thienpont, J., R., Korosi, J., B., Blais, J., M., & Smol, J., P. (2025). New developments in paleo-ecotoxicology: Emerging approaches in applying lake sediments archives to assess impacts from aquatic pollution. Current opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 100667.

Thornley, I. (2025). Can batteries foster a radically just energy transition? In Power Shift: Keywords for a New Politics on Energy edited by Imre Szeman and Jennifer Wenzel. West Virginia University Press.

Tzaninis, Y., Kaika, M., Mandler, T., & Keil, R. (2025). A manifesto for Urban Political Ecology. Introduction to Special Issue – Imagining with UPE for a Burning World. Urban Political Ecology, 0(0).

Ward, K., Abbruzzese, T., Bunnell, T., Cardullo, P., Chang, I-C., C., Miller, B., Ribera-Fumaz, R., Shin, H., Spicer, Z., & Woods, O. (2025). A comparison of comparisons: Evidence from an international comparative study of ‘smart cities’. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.

Whitney, R., A., & Sotomayor, L. (2025). Peripheral best practices and the politics of visibility: Urban planning and social urbanism in Mexico City. Cities, 158.

EUC and Associated Events

Upcoming Events

On Thursday, September 25, 1,3pm, 519 Kaneff Tower, EUC Visiting Professor and Associate Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine at Al Azhar University, Gaza, Dr. Abu Shaban, will deliver the Business and Society Program Fall Lecture on Resilience amidst War: Scholasticide and Food Crisis in Gaza.

In this lecture, Dr. Ahmed Abu Shaban will explore the concept of scholasticide and the deliberate destruction of Gaza’s educational institutions. He will also address the weaponization of the food system and the remarkable resilience of Gaza’s population, along with local and international efforts to sustain
education and rebuild food security under siege. He will share reflections from Gaza on both education and food systems.

Also on Thursday, September 25, 6-9pm, at Toronto Metropolitan University, join Water for Life Director Will Parrinello and Professor Carlota McAllister for a free screening of the film, Water for Life, followed by a conversation about water protection and advocacy. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Magdalena Ugarte (Urban and Regional Planning, Toronto Metropolitan University). 

Water For Life explores the collision of water rights, Indigenous beliefs, and resource extraction through the lives of three Latin American community leaders. The right to clean water is a global issue—in Latin America it has become a matter of life and death.

Daphne Cockwell Complex, Room DCC 707/709, Toronto Metropolitan University, 288 Church Street, Toronto. RSVP here or through the QR code.

As well on Thursday, September 25, 5-7pm, there will be a get-together at the Maloca Community Garden for students to connect with each other.

The Maloca Community Garden brings campus and community together in urban agriculture. It is a space for all members of the University community to experience – from growing their own food, to contributing to healthy biodiversity, to holding outdoor events, and to enjoying a great setting for teaching and research.

The garden supports individuals who lack access to land for growing, and want to build skills and knowledge in gardening, strive to raise awareness of food security or simply want to develop community connections.

On Friday, September 26, join the One Dish Project to explore the foundations of Indigenous governance systems, including Haudenosaunee structure, Two Row Wampum, and treaty relationships.

This workshop reminds us that to “become ungovernable” is not to reject governance itself, but to practice forms of governance rooted in Indigenous law, community, and accountability rather than profit-driven institutions.

Also, from September 22-26, the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) at York offers a series of events dubbed as Disorientation Week offering an alternative to Frosh Week to foster student activism and help build social justice network. Register here.

The Marxist Studies in Global and Asian Perspectives Research Group at York University will hold a conference on The Power of Marxist Thought from Friday-Saturday, September 26-27, 2025 at York University. The conference will assess the impact and importance of Marxism in the context of the wider intellectual realm, and how central theory is to its very existence. Papers by scholars from across disciplines will include topics on anthropology, economics, human geography, political science, social psychology, sociology, among others that are expected to demonstrate intellectual power of Marxist thought, especially in relation to the serious problems and issues facing humanity. The event is sponsored by Science & Society; Critical Sociology; Socialist Register; YorkU Global Labour Research Centre; Alternate Routes; Capital & Class; and EUC. For more info, contact the Organizing Collective at msgap@yorku.ca.

On Monday, September 29, 12-2pm, UofT Health Sciences Building, Professor Martin Hensher from University of Tasmania, Australia, will consider the opportunities, risks, and challenges for health and healthcare in a degrowth or postgrowth world and how we might best prepare for them.

The event is cohosted by the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, the Collaborative Centre for Climate, Health and Sustainable Care, University of Toronto; the Institute for Inclusive Economies and Sustainable Livelihoods, University of Toronto, Scarborough. RSVP here.

On Tuesday, September 30, 12-1pm, in observance of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, York University is holding a talk with Marcel Pitikwew and Professor Jennifer Haywood. Marcel Petiquay is the author of the poem, “My Little Residential School Suitcase,” which speaks to the traumas he suffered and his own process of healing. He is also the author of », « Nipekiwan, Je reviens » and « Atcakoc, le pardon ». Register here.

In advance of the forthcoming exhibition Nature’s Wild with Andil Gosine (RETURNS), CERLAC presents “PREE-Views: A Special Launch of Writings from the Censored Exhibition.” on Wednesday, October 1 from 1-3:30pm at Kaneff 519.

Jamaica-based writer Annie Paul was the catalog editor for Nature’s Wild before it was abruptly cancelled at the Art Museum of the Americas this past February. Paul is recuperating the unpublished writings about Professor Gosine’s artworks, by such Caribbean luminaries as Shani Mootoo, Marsha Pearce, Rajiv Mohabir and Shivanee Ramlochan, as a special supplement for her PREE journal. This event celebrates the launch of these writings, which make their first appearance at www.preelit.com.

Mark Terry, Adjunct Professor at AMPD and EUC as well as Research Fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research will conduct a one-day CIFAL York short and hands-on course on environmental communication to empower climate storytellers. This in-person or virtual training includes instruction on Environmental Communication, Citizen Science, Citizen Journalism, and specific production techniques for producing documentary short film reports on environmental challenges, with a particular focus on climate change, for the United Nations Climate Change. This course enables youth worldwide to gain filmmaking and digital media production skills to participate in this program.

On Saturday, October 11, 12pm–4:30pm, at the University of Toronto Art Centre & Stong House, join artist, curator, and EUC Associate Professor Lisa Myers, along with plant survey research collective Lou Holloway, Ever Palma Hernandez and Tiva Kawakami for a thought-provoking offsite Art Bus Excursion presented in conjunction with the exhibition Earthwork. Earthwork is the first major exhibition in Canada to re-imagine the concept of “earthwork” from an Indigenous perspective. The exhibition critically reassesses the concept from its art historical framings of 1960s and 1970s land art, with its emphasis on the monumental, industrial and extractive, toward the recognition of working with and for Earth from the perspective of Indigenous ways of repair, resilience, and possible futures. Climb aboard for a trip to the Stong House—once a stately settler homestead, now a rogue Indigenous-led artist-run node tucked within York University’s campus grid. Whether you’re an art lover, environmentalist, or curious wanderer, this program offers a unique opportunity to connect with the land and nature in a meaningful way. Spots are limited! Registration is required on Eventbrite.

Recent Events

Cate Sandilands recently held a thought-provoking discussion titled Cross Circuits that brought her perspective as an environmental humanities scholar to Emmanuel Osahor’s exhibition, To dream of other places.

Drawing on her work in feminist ecologies and critical plant studies, Sandilands talked about rhubarb and other stories on gardens and multispecies memory. Her presentation considered gardens as sites of mingling between multiple forms of memory: embodied, biographical, vegetal, social, geological and asked what is the ethical promise of thinking with the interaction between what we remember with gardens, and what they remember with us? The story about the gift of a rhubarb plant helps us to consider the layers of memory tangled up in the gardens we grow, and the ones we carry inside us.

Alison Bain and Julie Podmore launched their book Queerburbia: LGBTQ2S Suburban Place-Making The dialogue about LGBTQ2S Suburban Place-making included EUC colleagues Ranu Basu, Cate Sandilands, and Chan Arun Pina.

Queerburbia offers a comparative case study of how large Canadian city-regions become queerer through LGBTQ2S suburban place-making/unmaking/ remaking. For urban scholars, it deepens place-making theory with the conceptual introduction of the neologism “queerburbia” as a means to re-envision metropolitan peripheries as sites of queer futures. For civic leaders, urban planners, and policymakers, it offers insights into the complex dynamics of municipal LGBTQ2S misrecognition and critical allyship strategies beyond rainbowization.

The book launch accompanied an exhibition of the same name in the Zig Zag Gallery of EUC, celebrating a reorganized selection of photographs and stories from queerburban research participants on the peripheries of Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. Chan Arun-Pina curated this exhibition, creating original artwork that reinterprets the photographs and collective counter-maps, inviting your engagement and reimagination of queerburbia. Th exhibition runs until the end of October.

The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) recently held a panel discussion on Resisting Canadian Mining in Guatemala: The Xinka People’s Struggle for Self-Determination with Xinca leader speakers: Marisol Guerra and Marta Muñoz, moderated by Randy Pitawanakwat, and with EUC ADR Carlota McAllister as a discussant. To give the context of the discussion, earlier this year, the Xinka Indigenous People of Guatemala delivered the result of a historic consultation process, denying consent for the restart of Canadian Pan American Silver’s Escobal mine in southern Guatemala and are now calling for its permanent closure. The Xinca leaders shared their struggle for self-determination and presented their concerns about the silver mine, the threats and attacks that are being endured by the Xinka People, the challenges they have faced during the seven-year court-ordered consultation process regarding the mine, and their hopes for the future. The event was co-sponsored by Common Frontiers, Centre for Indigenous Student Services and Mining Injustice Solidarity Network.

EUC in the Media

Gail Fraser was featured in two media articles on double-crested cormorants, titled A Wild Home on the Bones of the City (Biographic, July 2025) and The Cormorant Wars (The Local, June 2025).

For the more than 15 years, Fraser has studied double-crested cormorants at Tommy Thompson Park on the east side of Toronto’s harbour. Every spring/summer, she puts on her coveralls and venture forth to follow a sample of nests, recording when nesting began and whether birds were successful at raising young. Her goal is to track how the birds are doing and hopefully detect significant changes when they occur.

The articles discuss the fight between residents, environmentalists, and governments over the most divisive and persecuted bird on earth — the double-crested cormorants. However, Fraser points out that it is possible for people to share space with this unfairly reviled species. She calls on a more science-based, detailed and peer-reviewed approach to resolve conflicts between humans and cormorants. 

Andil Gosine was featured in the NBC News article “Queer art faces widespread museum censorship, curators say.” The article noted the cancellation of his planned exhibition Nature’s Wild With Andil Gosine at Washington, D.C.’s Art Museum of the Americas, inspired by his book Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the Caribbean. Gosine’s work highlights the intersections of art, activism, and sexuality, and the controversy underscores ongoing challenges for queer representation in cultural institutions.

Felipe Montoya Greenheck directed a new documentary “Young Lives and the River” in the framework of a SSHRC Connection Grant on”Conference for Youth and Planetary Wellbeing.” The documentary looks at the perceptions and relationships of young people with the Térraba River and its tributaries in the Brunca region of southern Costa Rica.

Steven Tufts was on several news agencies, namely CBC’s The National, CP24, and CTV News to discuss Air Canada’s labour dispute with its flight attendants.

He also penned an article in The Globe and Mail titled A big failure for Air Canada’s weak management. Are its days numbered? in which he critiqued Air Canada’s poor handling of its labour dispute with its flight attendants. Accordingly, despite a historic strike mandate, management relied on government intervention instead of addressing worker concerns. While the tentative agreement includes “ground pay,” a major win for CUPE, Tufts argues that Air Canada’s leadership showed no clear strategy, misread union resolve, and failed to prepare for service disruptions. He suggests the company may need new leadership and warns that employers alike prepare for a more militant and strategic labour environment shaped by this dispute.

Peter Victor was featured in Cities 1.5 hosted by David Miller in a special podcast series dedicated to Herman Daly, an economist who transformed how we think about growth. Herman Daly was a founding father of ecological economics: more than half a century ago, he warned that the pursuit of endless economic growth was driving ecological collapse and harming society, as well as harming society – and came up with a plan to unbreak our economy. The podcast featured never-before-heard interviews with Daly himself. Subscribe to Cities 1.5 and listen to the first episode on Going Steady with Herman Daly: ‘There are limits to everything’.

Mark Winfield published an article in the Hamilton Spectator titled 413 Highway just the tip of an iceberg of questionable Doug Ford infrastructure projects.

In this article, Winfield takes aim at the Ford government’s lack of transparency and oversight in its management of Ontario’s infrastructure megaprojects. Highway 413 has been proposed as one component of a large, half-trillion dollar portfolio of nuclear, highway, and transit projects.

Many of these projects, such as the Bradford Bypass and Pickering B nuclear refurbishment, have been previously called unnecessary and uneconomic. Winfield argues environmental assessments have been downplayed, and public review isn’t taking place. He questions cost overruns, opaque financing, and locking public dollars into poorly vetted projects while education and health care face cuts.

Anna Zalik and Shiri Pasternak penned an opinion piece on Tariffs divide, but North America will soon be connected — by TC Energy’s natural gas pipelines in The Nharwal.

In this article, they noted that trade war talk is putting pressure on both Canada and Mexico to secure controversial infrastructure supported by the oil and gas sector and the Trump administration. Indeed, in the recent turmoil over U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and threats, discussions of energy have centred on Canada’s role as a supplier of oilsands fuels and electricity. Lost amid the trade war talk is the right-of-way Canada is helping to secure for powerful gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) corporations through the continent.