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Below is a compilation of recently published stories pertaining to Ontario Tech's Faculty of Social Science and Humanities.
Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos named in top 8 list of women in science to follow on social media
Published April 6, 2021
Hate Crimes on the Rise
Interview with Dr. Barbara Perry
Aired April 1, 2021
Voice technology improves student virtual experience
Interview with Dr. Sharon Lauricella
Published March 31, 2021
Concerns about isolation
Interview with Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos
Aired March 22, 2021
Toronto residents mark one year since Canada's first COVID-19 death
Interview with Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos
Published March 8, 2021
Debate on mental illness and Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)
Interview with Dr. Thomas McMorrow
Aired March 3, 2021
Criminal justice bill a step forward, but more is needed
Interview with Dr. Wesley Crichlow
Published February 21, 2021
Navigating mental-health support in Ontario's virtual classrooms
Interview with Dr. Lindsay Malloy
Published February 9, 2021
U.K. variant may be present in second long-term care home
Interview with Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos
Aired January 25, 2021
Is Trumpism Affecting Canadian Politics?
Interview with Dr. Barbara Perry
Aired January 14, 2021
Green Party leader calls issues in long-term care homes a 'humanitarian crisis'
Interview with Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos
Published January 5, 2021
Research shows right-wing extremism on the rise in Atlantic Canada
Interview with Dr. Barbara Perry
Published December 6, 2020
CHBE says dialogue necessary to combat hate crime, Islamophobia
Panel discussion with Brad Galloway, Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism (CHBE)
Aired November 19, 2020
Durham residents pay attention to U.S. election day
Dr. Lindsay Malloy and Dr. Tim MacNeill discuss the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
Aired November 3, 2020
Inspections, funding needed for long-term care facilities
Interview with Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos
Aired October 23, 2020
Restrictions on caregiver access to long-term care facilities spark calls for legislation
Interview with Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos
Published October 18, 2020
National action plan needed against hate crimes
Interview with Dr. Barbara Perry
Published October 12, 2020
Is Ontario doing enough to protect long-term care residents?
Interview with Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos
Aired October 7, 2020
Experts weigh-in on Canadian military response to reservist's links to far-right
Interview with Dr. Barbara Perry
Published September 29, 2020
Breaking down Ontario Premier's announcement amid second wave of COVID-19
Interview with Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos
Aired September 28, 2020
RCMP to include incels in updated terrorism guide
Interview with Dr. Barbara Perry
Published June 8, 2020
Internet-spawned Boogaloo movement in U.S. spawns new phase of extremism
Interview with Dr. Barbara Perry
Published June 4, 2020
Who is going to protect our seniors in long-term care?
Opinion Piece by Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos
Published June 3, 2020
A discussion about anti-black racism, privilege and the way forward
Interview with Dr. Wesley Crichlow
Published June 1, 2020
A Terrorism Charge Isn't The Solution To Violence Against Women
Interview with Dr. Barbara Perry
Published May 29, 2020
Couple married 73 years separated in same LTC home
Interview with Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos
Published May 28, 2020
The plight of caregivers and seniors who die alone in Ontario (Interview in English with French subtitles)
Interview with Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos
Published May 25, 2020
From patriotism to recruitment: How Hollywood helped the U.S. military sell the War on Terror
Interview with Dr. Tanner Mirrlees
Published May 25, 2020
Ontario law allows families into long-term care as essential visitors, but practice is seldom followed
Interview with Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos
Published May 23, 2020
Loss of family caregivers putting Ottawa long-term care residents and others at risk, say advocates
Interview with Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos
Published May 22, 2020
LEVY: Mom's health declines without nightly visits from son
Interview with Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos
Published May 21, 2020
Why Hollywood turned broken men into heroes after the Vietnam War
Interview with Dr. Tanner Mirrlees
Published May 18, 2020
Hate-fuelled incidents against East Asians on the rise, police say
Interview with Dr. Barbara Perry
Published May 15, 2020
Myths on Screen: Hollywood's Role in War & Propaganda
Three-part CBC IDEAS series featuring Dr. Tanner Mirrlees
Bank of Canada must "keep innovating" beyond pandemic: think tank
Interview with Dr. Scott Aquanno
Published May 01, 2020
Ontario Tech University students can work virtually anywhere
Opinion Piece by Tim Claydon
Published May 04, 2020
Far-right groups may try to take advantage of pandemic, watchdogs warn
Interview with Dr. Barbara Perry
Published April 09, 2020
Final episode of Durham Region’s own ‘Schitt’s Creek’ April 7
Opinion Piece by Dr. Sharon Lauricella
Published April 05, 2020
Gen Zers and Millennials can help us fight coronavirus despite bad rap for taking pandemic lightly, say experts
Interview with Dr. Sharon Lauricella
Published March 30, 2020
Teaching your children well: Lessons learned in Ontario’s education system
Opinion piece by Dr. Alyson King
Published March 11, 2020
These stickers say ‘Think Green, Buy Local.’ Here’s the extremist message they’re really selling
Interview with Dr. Barbara Perry
Published March 07, 2020
The Agenda with Steve Paikin: A New Cyber Community; Brain Research Progress
Interview with Dr. Isabel Pedersen
Published March 05, 2020
Hate crime reports to London police take another jump
Interview with Dr. Barbara Perry
Published February 27, 2020
Hate crime professor calls posters 'fear-mongering'
Interview with Dr. Barbara Perry.
Published February 18, 2020
‘This is not the Whitby I live in’: Town, experts react to racist posters spotted around city
Interview with Dr. Barbara Perry.
Published February 7, 2020
Snap and chat: A visionary perspective on social media trends in the 2020s
Op-ed by Dr. Sharon Lauricella.
Published February 12, 2020
Writing the far right: How journalists can report on hate groups without handing them a microphone
Mention of Dr. Barbara Perry
Published January 9, 2020
Homeless and addiction epidemic must be solved now
Op-ed by Dr. Alyson King.
Published December 31, 2019
Putting the concept of final exams to the test
Op-ed by Dr. Sharon Lauricella.
Published December 4, 2019
Map of hate: Publication pinpoints Canadian users of neo-Nazi site Iron March
Interview with Dr. Barbara Perry.
Published November 27, 2019
Get outside and listen, says Sharon Lauricella
Op-ed by Dr. Sharon Lauricella.
Published November 7, 2019
Closed Facebook groups where extremists thrive “would curl your innards,” expert says
Interview with Dr. Barbara Perry.
Published October 29, 2019
Building a new brand for south Oshawa with affordable townhomes
Interview with Academic Associate Amanda Robinson.
Published October 3, 2019
Are younger voters different than their parents? Canadian millennial and Gen Z voters split
Interview with Dr. Tanner Mirrlees.
Published September 20, 2019
More Fed cuts expected to push Canadian interest rates lower: Don Pittis
Watch for effects of shrinking global economy to hit Canada as well (interview with Dr. Scott Aquanno).
Published September 19, 2019
'Is democracy dying?' That question is at heart of upcoming lecture series
Political experts and scholars, including Ontario Tech's Dr. Tanner Mirrlees, will come together in Third Age Learning Lakehead’s fall lecture series to explore the struggles and threats that are transforming our democracies and the solutions we can employ to make democracy more meaningful.
Published September 11, 2019
NDP Announces Plan To Fight Rising Racism And Islamophobia In Canada
Dr. Barbara Perry, Director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at Ontario Tech University, praised NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh for the NDP’s New Deal for People, which proposes several measures to take meaningful action on racism and Islamophobia.
Published September 10, 2019
He used to work for a site that promoted racists — now he edits a Canadian news outlet
Before Cosmin Dzsurdza worked for The Post Millennial, he worked for a pro-Kremlin site called Russia Insider and a blog that promoted racists (interview with Dr. Barbara Perry).
Published August 22, 2019
Quebec City police said hate crime was down in 2018, but StatsCan numbers tell a very different story
Federal data suggests hate incidents were three times higher than what police were reporting (interview with Dr. Barbara Perry).
Published August 22, 2019
Transgender hate crimes are on the rise in Canada
Dr. Barbara Perry mentioned in article.
Published August 21, 2019
Wildlife trafficking and more hinder nations’ sustainable development
Interview with Dr. Peter Stoett.
Published August 17, 2019
Study: Organized crime profits from illegal wildlife trafficking
Interview with Dr. Peter Stoett.
Published August 16, 2019
The alt-right’s YouTube entrepreneurs
Ontario Tech University’s Dr. Tanner Mirrlees says money’s to be made on the popular site.
Published August 1, 2019
People's Party of Canada calls anti-racist a 'terrorist' after gallery cancels political rally
Interview with Dr. Barbara Perry.
Published July 24, 2019
From Reddit to 4Chan, misinformation and online hate is being amplified by manhunt case, experts say
Interview with Dr. Barbara Perry.
Published July 24, 2019
BC highway murders: how a murderer identifies his victims
Interview with Dr. Hannah Scott, victimology researcher and Professor at Ontario Tech University, specializing in victimology, vulnerable populations, gender, and homicide studies.
Published July 23, 2019
How is Canada doing when it comes to racism?
Interview with Dr. Barbara Perry.
Finding common ground this fall on 'The Secret Path'
Columnist Dr. Pariss Garramone says providing students with opportunities to read and share their understanding develops values, and a respect for multiple points of view.
Published July 11, 2019
ANALYSIS: How criminal courts accommodate child witnesses
Interview with Dr. Lindsay Malloy.
Published June 25, 2019
Is the Earth doomed? This Durham expert says there is still hope
Dr. Peter Stoett was one of 250 experts around the world who worked on the sixth Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-6), a study about the state of Earth's environment.
Published June 19, 2019
The time to combine science and policy is now
Columnist Dr. Peter Stoett completes a three-year study assessing state of our planet.
Published June 5, 2019
BC’s increasingly bizarre anti-SOGI bandwagon
Foes of teaching inclusive sexual identity now include a transgender man guarded by Soldiers of Odin, and other alt-righters.
Published May 28, 2019
A new breed of white nationalism: The Agenda with Steve Paikin
Hate crimes in Ontario have risen by 65 per cent from 2016 to 2017, according to Statistics Canada. One of the largest-growing groups are those that define themselves by extreme-right ideology: white nationalists, white supremacists, neo-Nazis, or alt-right. Dr. Barbara Perry, the director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism, talks to Steve Paikin about the compelling forces attracting people to these movements.
Aired May 23, 2019
Man accused of vandalizing Edson courthouse with anti-Semitic slurs is an extremist rapper
Kelvin Zawadiuk, 35, charged with public incitement of hatred (CBC News interviews Dr. Barbara Perry).
Published May 14, 2019
'Avengers: Endgame's nod to LGBTQ wasn't enough but there's still hope and here's why
Joe Russo's anonymous 'gay man' cameo didn't get the best response but there's still time for Marvel to make amends (MEA World Wide interviews Dr. Sharon Lauricella).
Published May 8, 2019
Expect ‘ugly’ and ‘intense’ election campaign in the fall, fuelled by anger, say Liberal and NDP MPs
Liberal and NDP MPs predict the next election campaign to be particularly nasty, but Conservative MP Peter Kent says every election campaign is nasty.
Published May 6, 2019
How black feminist writers contributed to Beyonce's 'Homecoming' celebration of African culture
Netflix documentary 'Homecoming' offers an in-depth look into the performance that made history, as QueenBey became the first ever Black woman to headline Coachella (joint statement from Ontario Tech University student Elizabeth Ogundare, in conjunction with Dr. Sharon Lauricella).
Published April 30, 2019
Canada’s new far right: A trove of private chat room messages reveals an extremist subculture
An analysis of 150,000 chat room messages paints a picture of a group that is actively recruiting new members, buying weapons and trying to influence political parties (The Globe and Mail interviews Dr. Barbara Perry).
Published April 27, 2019
Young adult shows like 'Riverdale', '13 Reasons Why', and 'Pretty Little Liars' fail to accurately portray the lives of young adults
Be it 'Riverdale', '13 Reasons Why' or 'Pretty Little Liars', young adult shows are increasingly becoming unrealistic and absurd. MEA WorldWide (MEAWW) tries to uncover the reason behind this phenomenon (MEA World Wide interviews Dr. Andrea Braithwaite).
Published April 29, 2019
Port Perry Star | Spending the most on an election campaign doesn't always guarantee a Scugog council seat
In essence, campaigning is about name recognition—building a brand and promoting yourself to the public, says Dr. Shanti Fernando, an associate professor and political science program director at Ontario Tech University.
Published April 11, 2019
Montreal Gazette | What happens when the caregivers are youth? 'We just did our best'
Factors in the increase include such demographic trends as smaller families, women’s widespread presence in the labour force, a burgeoning elderly population and the shift of more health and social services to the private sector, where they are unaffordable to a growing proportion of families, according to symposium speaker Dr. Vivian Stamatopoulos, a professor at Ontario Tech University.
Published April 10, 2019
High Country News | Native American athletes and fans face ongoing racism
“In
harassment,” said Dr. Barbara Perry, director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at Ontario Tech University, who spent years studying hate crimes against Indigenous people in the U.S. and Canada.
Published April 10, 2019
CBC | Facebook bans Faith Goldy and 'dangerous' alt-right groups
Last month, the Liberal government announced a special fund for research into right-wing extremism. Through it, Ontario Tech University got a three-year grant of $366,985 to conduct interviews with law enforcement, community anti-hate activists and former and current extremists to gain a better understanding of the beliefs, motivations and activities of extremists.
Published April 8, 2019
Victoria Times Colonist | Global Voices: Hate groups becoming Canada's national crisis (op-ed)
“If this was any other type of crime, we’d be calling it a national crisis,” said
Published April 7, 2019
HuffPost | How Far-Right Extremists In Canada and Abroad Have Adopted Trump's Symbols As Their Own
"The hat and the MAGA acronym have really become shorthand for this white nationalist movement," said Dr. Barbara Perry, a professor at Ontario Tech University and an expert on the far right.
Published April 6, 2019
Global News | A look at identitarianism, a movement the New Zealand shooter allegedly supported
The American version of the group has been classified as a hate group. Dr. Barbara Perry, Ontario Tech University and the director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism, says the group targets young men. “It attracts a largely young demographic — in their 20s — who are concerned that they are the last generation that will enjoy the full fruits of white European privilege in Canada and globally,” she explained.
Published March 29, 2019
Norther Sentinel | The politics of nationalism is gaining force and it is us who must stop it (op-ed)
Dr. Barbara Perry, director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at Ontario Tech University, estimates that there are nearly 300 far-right groups in Canada, up from around 100 in 2015.
Published March 29, 2019
The Concordian | Editorial: Hideous figures in history must be taken down
For those who think this is an old conversation, it’s too close to home for us to turn a blind eye—our current CAQ government is playing a role in upholding racist ideologies, by establishing values tests and French-language tests for immigrants. Canada’s complicit too—Dr. Barbara Perry, a professor at Ontario Tech University and an expert on hate groups in Canada, believes between 120-130 hate groups exist in Canada today, according to Al Jazeera.
Published March 26, 2019
CBC's The Current | Far-right's online responses to New Zealand massacre have been 'sickening,' says Barbara Perry
Following the attack on two mosques in New Zealand that left 50 dead, one of Canada's leading researchers on far-right extremism says it's time to have a conversation about "how we define terrorist entities." Many far-right groups have "this combination of ideological motivation, and arms and ... the intent to defend through force, if necessary, their nation," said Barbara Perry, the director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at Ontario Tech University.
Published March 20, 2019
The Globe and Mail | Removing hate and horror from internet like playing an unwinnable game of Whac-A-Mole
So the accused in New Zealand knew full well that the web would take care of marketing the message. Dr. Barbara Perry, the Director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at Ontario Tech University, followed the reaction of alt-right sites such as 4Chan after the attack. She says members were passing around the video and manifesto, “expressing praise" and lauding the gunman’s courage. “It is so chilling," she said. “It has energized the movement.”
Published March 15, 2019
Victoria News | Canadian Government announces more than $300,000 to research right-wing extremism
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Karen McCrimmon, made the announcement on March 6 for an ‘updated, comprehensive overview of the right-wing extremism movement in Canada,’ states a news release issued from Public Safety Canada. Ontario Tech University will receive $366,985 over the course of three years from the Canadian Government.
Published March 13, 2019
Other related articles from Vice News, Toronto Star, CityNews Vancouver, Durham Radio News, The Chronicle and Ottawa Matters.
CBC News | The writing of this AI is so human that its creators are scared to release it
CBC news interviews Isabel Pedersen, PhD, Canada Research Chair in Digital Life, Media and Culture, about
Published February 25, 2019
CBC Radio | How Alexandre Bissonette's sentence could fuel Canada's far-right
In the wake of Quebec mosque
Published February 9, 2019
Earther | A crowdfunded idea to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now a $35-million nonprofit. Scientists still don’t think it’ll work
For years, researchers and ocean plastic activists had been warning that The Ocean Cleanup Project’s fundamental assumptions were misguided. Instead of testing those assumptions in smaller, more controlled experiments, oceanographers and marine engineers claim that The Ocean Cleanup Project rushed to launch build and launch prototypes. Their concerns, however, have gone largely unheeded by award committees, The Ocean Cleanup Project, and the mainstream press. “There wasn’t much consultation with marine engineers,” Dr. Peter Stoett, Dean and Professor of Social Science and Humanities at Ontario Tech University and marine policy researcher told Earther. “But it looked cool.”
Published February 8, 2019
Keene Sentinel Source | Native American women: abused, missing and murdered
Continuing racism and sexism contribute to the impression that indigenous women are assailable, says Dr. Barbara Perry, a professor at Ontario Tech University. “It’s not unusual for women of
Published February 2, 2019
The Gazette | Defense in Iowa toddler's death trial tries to discredit Cody Stevenson's confession
A professor of psychology and social
Published January 31, 2019
CBC TV Fifth Estate | Why incels are a 'real and present threat' for Canadians
"It's about their proprietary violence, that they think they have some sort of inborn inherent right and privilege to access women and women's bodies and so that is the bit that animates them," Dr. Barbara Perry, a criminologist specializing in hate crime at the Ontario Tech University, told The Fifth Estate.
Published January 27, 2019
Saskatoon Star-Phoenix | Saskatchewan NDP 'concerned' about government ministers attending yellow vest protests
At the same time, Canadian yellow vest forums have seen an open airing of more fringe and extreme views, including fantasies about the assassination of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, conspiracy theories and undisguised racism. “The addition of these other extremists is risking the credibility of what’s at the core of the movement,” Dr. Barbara Perry, a professor at Ontario Tech University who researches extremism, told the National Post.
Published January 25, 2019
CBC Radio | The balance between national security and individual freedoms in federal government's cyber security policy
Audio link to interview with
Published January 16, 2019
TVO.org | Why hate crimes are on the rise across Ontario
TVO.org interviews
Published January 3, 2019
