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Issues and Experts: Engineered food, gang crime, political torture
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August 10, 2007
Engineered food
Gang crime
Political torture
Gang crime
Political torture
Genetically engineered food
A new study commissioned by Greenpeace is reigniting questions about the safety of genetically engineered foods. The study, released yesterday in Abbotsford where Greenpeace activists cut a gigantic question mark inside a crop circle, indicates that genetically engineered corn causes liver and kidney damage in rats. SFU biologist and plant pathologist Zamir Punja can comment on the study's findings. An international leader in the development of genetically-modified plants, Punja grew the world's first genetically-engineered strains of carrot and ginseng.
Guns, gangs and crime
Does Vancouver need more police and more gun control? Is the city going to gangs and guns? These are some of the questions being debated in the wake of a gang style shooting at an East Vancouver restaurant that killed two men and put six others in hospital. SFU business professor Gary Mauser, who has long studied the political marketing of gun legislation, says statistics show that gang crime, serious violent crime and serious youth crime, including homicide are increasing. "The classic criminology approaches should be applied," says Mauser, "increased numbers of police, as well as locking up serious criminals in prison longer." SFU school of criminology professor and director Rob Gordon, an expert on gang activity, can comment on the issue and whether he shares Mauser's views.
Gary Mauser, 604.937.5292 (h), mauser@sfu.ca
Rob Gordon, 604.418.6640 (cell), robert_gordon@sfu.ca
Who knew about Arar's fate?
The media's efforts to pinpoint who in senior levels of the federal government knew about the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's (CSIS) fears for Maher Arar's fate is prompting the prime minister to pass the buck. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is telling reporters to ask senior members of the former Liberal government whether they knew about CSIS' warnings that Arar would be tortured if Canada allowed the United States to deport him to the Middle East. Former Prime Minster Jean Chrétien's Liberal government was in power then. SFU historian Andre Gerolymatos, an expert on trans-Atlantic terrorism and security issues, can offer thought on the likelihood former Liberal government officials knew about CSIS' warning and failed to act on it.
A new study commissioned by Greenpeace is reigniting questions about the safety of genetically engineered foods. The study, released yesterday in Abbotsford where Greenpeace activists cut a gigantic question mark inside a crop circle, indicates that genetically engineered corn causes liver and kidney damage in rats. SFU biologist and plant pathologist Zamir Punja can comment on the study's findings. An international leader in the development of genetically-modified plants, Punja grew the world's first genetically-engineered strains of carrot and ginseng.
Guns, gangs and crime
Does Vancouver need more police and more gun control? Is the city going to gangs and guns? These are some of the questions being debated in the wake of a gang style shooting at an East Vancouver restaurant that killed two men and put six others in hospital. SFU business professor Gary Mauser, who has long studied the political marketing of gun legislation, says statistics show that gang crime, serious violent crime and serious youth crime, including homicide are increasing. "The classic criminology approaches should be applied," says Mauser, "increased numbers of police, as well as locking up serious criminals in prison longer." SFU school of criminology professor and director Rob Gordon, an expert on gang activity, can comment on the issue and whether he shares Mauser's views.
Gary Mauser, 604.937.5292 (h), mauser@sfu.ca
Rob Gordon, 604.418.6640 (cell), robert_gordon@sfu.ca
Who knew about Arar's fate?
The media's efforts to pinpoint who in senior levels of the federal government knew about the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's (CSIS) fears for Maher Arar's fate is prompting the prime minister to pass the buck. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is telling reporters to ask senior members of the former Liberal government whether they knew about CSIS' warnings that Arar would be tortured if Canada allowed the United States to deport him to the Middle East. Former Prime Minster Jean Chrétien's Liberal government was in power then. SFU historian Andre Gerolymatos, an expert on trans-Atlantic terrorism and security issues, can offer thought on the likelihood former Liberal government officials knew about CSIS' warning and failed to act on it.