July 2, 2015
Munk School Director Stephen Toope has been named an Officer of the Order of Canada. The latest list of inductees to the order was released by the Governor General’s office on Canada Day, July 1.
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June 15, 2015
June 15th marks the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. From property rights to women’s rights, the rule of law, equality before the law and defined roles for judges: all roads, it seems, lead us back to Magna Carta Libertatum....
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June 1, 2015
Groundwater is Canada’s hidden natural resource. Its importance to our environment, health and economy is neither understood nor appreciated. In May, the Program on Water Issues (POWI) fostered a dialogue on Canada’s groundwater management through a symposium called Security Underground: Financing...
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May 26, 2015
Ron Deibert, director of Citizen Lab, writes in the Globe and Mail that North Americans may never heard of UC Browser, but it’s prevalent in China and India. It also has a fundamental problem: it leaks a huge torrent of...
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April 28, 2015
Serhii Plokhy, a professor at Harvard University, won the 25th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize for his book The Last Empire: The final days of the Soviet Union. Founded in 1989 by Canadian diplomat Lionel Gelber, the prize is a literary award...
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March 10, 2015
On March 9, 2015, a one-day conference hosted by the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Munk School of Global Affairs explored the aftermath of the violent attacks on journalists at Charlie Hebdo and shoppers in a Jewish supermarket in...
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January 7, 2015
The Government of Canada announced a new partnership with the Munk School of Global Affairs to launch the Digital Public Square project, an up to $9-million initiative that will increase digital space for free expression and open political dialogue in places...
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October 21, 2014
https://archive.munkschool.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Media-Release-Final-October-21-2014-with-map.pdf
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August 27, 2014
Toronto, Canada – The Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto is proud to announce that David Wolfe, Co-Director of the Innovation Policy Lab, and his team have been awarded $2.9 million from SSHRC (the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) over six years for the Creating digital opportunity: Canada’s ICT industry in global perspective project. With support provided by SSHRC, the University of Toronto, lead partner, the Canadian International Council, and other partner universities, firms and organizations, the project commitment totals $5.1 million.
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May 14, 2014
TORONTO, ON — The Government of Ontario’s arrangements with local governments are facing pressures for reform, and the Province’s challenging fiscal conditions could be the catalyst for a rethink about how provincial-municipal affairs are managed in the years ahead. This...
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