News Roundup: Kidd, Mallick, Micallef
Shawn Micallef on the Fisher Library
Sessional Lecturer and UC One instructor Shawn Micallef comments on U of T’s Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library. The library includes many collections and a notable amount of material about Toronto's history and politics. It is a frequent destination of Micallef's UC One class, Citizenship in the Canadian City, where students have the opportunity to investigate the collections as part of the program's signature field trips.
Heather Mallick on Gravitational Time-keeping Between Moon and Earth
UC alum and 2012 Alumni of Influence Awardee Heather Mallick (BA '81) comments on how the Moon affects the length of day on Earth after a team of University of Toronto astrophysicists revealed how the slow and steady lengthening of Earth’s day caused by the tidal pull of the moon was halted for over a billion years.
Bruce Kidd on Caster Semenya's Legal Win and Qualtrough's Appointment as Federal Minister of Sport
University of Toronto Ombudsperson, former Director of Canadian Studies, and UC Professor Emeritus Bruce Kidd (BA, University College, '65) comments on the European Court of Human Rights’ rule in favor of champion runner, Caster Semenya.
Semenya, a two-time Olympic champion and middle-distance runner from South Africa, lost four years of her career at its peak after being barred from sport in 2019 due to naturally high levels of testosterone.
Kidd considers the legal ruling a "huge victory for human rights."
Read Kidd's full comments on Semenya in The Canadian Press and the Toronto Star. (Paywall)
Professor Kidd also comments on Carla Qualtrough’s appointment as federal minister of sport, which he hopes "means that the Prime Minister wants to give much more attention to resolving the crisis in sport," and finds the move encouraging.
Read Kidd's full comments on Qualtrough in The Canadian Press.