Media Maters – SFU Business Professors in the News
Oct 23, 2008
How SFU Business fared in the news for the week of October, 23, 2008
National and International News
- Ed Bukszar, associate dean of SFU Business, appeared on TVOntario, in a panel discussing the current financial situation and how Canadian banks have suffered less than others. (He was able to join the discussion thanks to wizards at LIDC, the Wosk Centre, and the Segal Graduate School of Business. They put Bukszar on camera in the Wosk Centre and beamed it live to the TV Ontario studio in Toronto.)
BC News
- The Vancouver Sun cited a poll that found British Columbians are leaning toward change in November municipal elections. Quoted was marketing prof Lindsay Meredith: “When it looks like you’re heading into tough sledding, you get a restless electorate; who do you blame, so to speak?”
Election Postscripts
- Marketing prof Lindsay Meredith capped his media work on the federal election with an appearance on GlobalTV’s national news. There, he cited errors by Liberal leader Stéphane Dion: “Immaculately bad timing in terms of trying to push the green shift taxation in a face of a economic downturn. Second major error, look, he had some key handlers who advised him to back off the carbon tax temporarily. He wouldn’t do it.”
- The Surrey-North Delta Leader looked at voter turnout in the federal election Oct. 14. It said in part: “It was one of the lowest voter turnouts on record, but at least one local expert thinks that’s not such a bad sign. . . . (Retired SFU prof) Gary Mauser thinks recent elections where voter turnout has been sparse is just a blip on our electoral history. ‘If you get two in a row, that’s still not much of a trend.’”