Ontario Election
Andrew McDougall
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science at U of T Scarborough
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Aboriginal politics and the politics of the High North
- Canada’s relationship with Beijing
- Canadian federalism and intergovernmental relations
- Canadian government & relationship with Royal Family
- Constitutional law
- Provincial politics
Office: 416-432-3813
Email: andrew.mcdougall@utoronto.ca
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Christopher Cochrane
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto Scarborough
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian politics and government
- Political behaviour and elections
- Political communications
- Political methodology
- Social sciences
Office: (416) 208-5121
Email: christopher.cochrane@utoronto.ca
Media availability: Radio, Print/Online
Elizabeth Dhuey
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Economics of K-12 education
- Kindergarten
- Middle/Junior High School
- Principals
- Redshirting
- Special Education Finance
Office: 416-208-2687
Email: elizabeth.dhuey@utoronto.ca
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Eric Merkley
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian politics
- Elections
- Fake news & misinformation
- News media & politics
- Polarization
- Public opinion
- Social media toxicity
- U.S. politics
Office: N/A
Website
Email: eric.merkley@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Gordon Cleveland
Emeritus Associate Chair and Senior Lecturer in Economics
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Child care policy
- Compensation of child care workers
- Economic effects of early childhood education
- Family homes
- Quality in child care centres: family homes
Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-617-5485
Email: gordon.cleveland@utoronto.ca
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Jeffrey Dvorkin
Senior Fellow, Massey College
Former director, Journalism Program
- Campus
Areas of Expertise
- Changing role of media
- Disinformation & censorship
- Importance of trusted media sources
- Journalism ethics
- Media management and ethical decision-making
- Misinformation
- News ombudsmanship
- Significance of digital freedom & government accountability
- Social media and democratic practice
- Spread of misinformation
- The challenge of digital information
- The role of cameras in court rooms
- Youth vote reporting
Office: N/A
Home: 416-537-2892
Mobile: 647-401-5330
Languages (in addition to English): French, German, Hebrew
Email: jeffrey.dvorkin@utoronto.ca
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Jeffrey Rosenthal
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-4594
Website
Email: jeff@utstat.utoronto.ca
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Larry LeDuc
Professor Emeritus
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-946-0957
Email: leduc@chass.utoronto.ca
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Linda White
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian and comparative public policy
- Child care and family policy
- Early childhood education and care
- Federalism and Canadian public policy
- Gender and public policy
- Gender pay gap
Office: 416-978-2857
Mobile: 647-225-9164
Email: linda.white@utoronto.ca
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Matti Siemiatycki
Director of the Infrastructure Institute
Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Community and regional planning
- Congestion management
- Cycling
- Housing; Solutions for commercial vacancies
- Infrastructure finance and delivery
- Public-private partnerships
- Transit and commuting
- Transportation policy and planning
- Urban planning
- Urban transit
Office: 416-946-5145
Mobile: 647-680-8963
Website
Email: siemiatycki@geog.utoronto.ca
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Michael Widener
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Emergency medical services transportation
- Food deserts
- Food environments
- Food insecurity
- Health and transportation
- Healthy food accessibility
- How transportation networks and infrastructure affect access to health services and healthy opportunities
- Urban planning and health
Office: 416-946-0270
Website
Email: michael.widener@utoronto.ca
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Nancy Reid
Professor, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-5046
Mobile: 416-986-8321
Website
Email: nancym.reid@utoronto.ca
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Nelson Wiseman
Professor Emeritus
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canada & the monarchy
- Canadian foreign policy
- Canadian government and politics
- Elections
- Political parties and leaders
- Provincial politics
- Voting
Office: 416.922-5595 call or email do not text
Email: nelson.wiseman@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone
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Opher Baron
Distinguished Professor of Operations Management,
Academic Director, Master in Management of Analytics,
Professor of Operations Management
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Autonomous vehicles
- Business analytics
- Gas costs
- Global food supply
- Queueing and waiting time management
- Revenue management
- Service operations (such as healthcare)
- Supply chain management
- Ukraine war: Impact to supply chain
Office: 416-978-4164
Languages (in addition to English): Hebrew
Website
Email: opher.baron@rotman.utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Peter Loewen
Professor, Political Science
Director, Munk School
Associate Director, Schwartz Reisman Institute for AI and Society
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Citizens' perceptions of elected officials
- Future of democratic societies
- Policy; elections and representation
- Political polarization
Office: 416-978-5120
Email: peter.loewen@utoronto.ca
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Randy Besco
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Canadian government and politics
- Elections
- How political polls dictate voter behaviour
- Public opinion
- Race & immigration
Office: 905-569-4377
Email: randy.besco@utoronto.ca
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Trudo Lemmens
Professor, Faculty of Law
Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Commercialization of medical research
- Conflict of interest in medicine
- End-of-life law-- Medical Assistance in Dying
- Ethical issues of genetic and medical technologies
- Health and Human Rights
- Health law and policy
- Opioid crisis
- Pharmaceutical Law and Governance
- Regulation of research
- Regulation of the Health Professions
Office: 416-978-4201
Home: 416-964-9482
Languages (in addition to English): French, Dutch
Email: trudo.lemmens@utoronto.ca
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