Media Matters – SFU Business in the News – July 31
Jul 31, 2009
How SFU Business fared in the news for the week ending July 31, 2009.
BC News
- Marketing prof Lindsay Meredith did interviews on CTV, CBC-TV and Fairchild-TV on BC’s plan to harmonize provincial and federal sales taxes next July 1. Meredith also spoke on AM1040 Radio on that subject, and on the Bank of Canada’s declaration last week that Canada is emerging from the recession.
National & World News
- As VIA Rail headed for what proved to be a brief strike by engineers, The Canadian Press spoke with business prof Aidan Vining. He said that while the federal government has reportedly considered VIA for privatization, that’s unlikely to take place unless the Tories want to see rail service fold. “The chances that VIA Rail would be profit making even under some form of private ownership are zilch.” We saw the story in and on 13 media outlets as far afield as the Halifax Chronicle-Herald.
- Human Resource Executive Online looked at how few companies help employees cope with overseas assignments. Among those quoted was Mila Lazarova, assistant prof in SFU Business: “It’s very stressful to be taken out of your normal circumstances and put into an entirely different environment and be expected to function normally, as if nothing has changed. It’s really quite unrealistic to expect that.”