Spending on advertising by major oil corporations has reached an all-time high over the past decade. In a recent paper in Climatic Change, researchers from McGill, Brown and Rutgers Universities tried to determine the factors that might explain this increase (from an average total annual expenditure of $35 million between 1986-1996 for the five biggest companies together to an average of $217 million annually between 2008-2016 for the same companies).

Classified as: climate change, oil companies, media, Jason Carmichael, Department of Sociology, Sustainability
Published on: 7 Jan 2020

Canadian cities that have significant visible minority and Aboriginal populations have bigger police forces than those without. No matter what the actual level of crime.

Classified as: culture, news, First Nations, Canada, Research, Crime, Aboriginals, Visible Minorities, Criminal justice, society, Jason Carmichael, criminology, Sociology Department
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Published on: 16 Sep 2015
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