March 26, 2021
The effectiveness of public health interventions for mitigation of the COVID-19 pandemic depends on individual attitudes, compliance, and the level of support available to allow for compliance with these measures. The aim of this study by Peter Loewen and Eric...
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March 22, 2021
TikTok’s huge popularity in North America in particular has put it under increased scrutiny especially following the attempt from the Trump Administration to ban the app in the U.S. due to alleged national security concerns. Despite TikTok’s popularity and prominent...
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A variety of public health measures have been implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada to reduce contact between individuals. This study, co-authored by the Munk School’s Peter Loewen, constructs contact patterns to evaluate the degree to which social contacts...
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In the first eight months of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 80 percent of Canadian deaths occurred in long-term care facilities. There have been calls for the federal government to play a stronger role, but this is complicated by the...
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March 5, 2021
In the state of Jalisco, Mexico, men’s rate of economic participation is 78 per cent, while the rate for women is only 45 per cent. Because of historical, social and cultural barriers, the economic prospects for women remain quite low....
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This report by the Munk School’s Diana Fu and Emile Dirks disaggregates Chinese society by examining the impact of Xi’s rule on China’s rural poor, migrant workers, and ethnic minorities.Today, President Xi Jinping is the most powerful Chinese leader in...
Read full entryMarch 1, 2021
This research note by Gabriel Eidelman et. al. describes the Canadian Municipal Elections Database (CMED), a new publicly available and actively maintained dataset of more than 24,000 municipal elections in Canada. It describes the need for high-quality election results data...
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The Toronto-based Bureau of Municipal Research published over 800 bulletins and reports on urban issues in Canada between 1914 and 1983. Much has been written about its parent organization, the New York Bureau of Municipal Research. But the history of...
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February 17, 2021
Ontario 360’s eighth paper of the 2020-21 season is Attracting 21st Century Investment: A Blueprint for the Creation of Invest Ontario and Invest Alberta. It focuses on the commitments of the Ontario and Alberta governments to establish new investment attraction...
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Stephan Heblich, Alex Trew, and Yanos Zylberberg. 2020 Formerly industrial cities tend to have eastern suburbs that are notably poorer than their western suburbs. Is this partially explained by patterns of atmospheric pollution during the Industrial Revolution? Watch the full...
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