June 15, 2020
This report, a joint effort between the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, the School of Cities and the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, stems from an initiative, launched in fall 2019, aimed at identifying, understanding,...
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June 9, 2020
A new report by researchers at the Citizen Lab reveals an enormous hack-for-hire operation that has targeted thousands of individuals and hundreds of institutions around the globe. Targets included advocacy groups, journalists, and lawyers, including organisations working on a campaign called...
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June 4, 2020
In a new paper for the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG), Alan Harding, Chief Economic Adviser to the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, describes the development of Greater Manchester’s primarily “bottom-up” form of regional governance. Read the report ...
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May 25, 2020
Co-authored by Rachel Silvey, this article summarizes key findings from research on Indonesian and Filipino migrant domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates to reflect on their implications for policy. Read the article.
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May 20, 2020
The Digital Democracy Project is a joint initiative led by the Ottawa-based Public Policy Forum and the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University. The project studied the media ecosystem in the run-up to and during Canada’s October...
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May 20, 2020
Ontario has been severely disrupted by the COVID-19 crisis, and with it has come a severe disruption of the province’s public policy priorities. The Ontario government will need to focus on its own policy levers and the steps it can...
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May 8, 2020
How we move through and emerge from the current COVID-19 pandemic will depend in large part on the stories we tell about it. In this article, Carolyn Hughes Tuohy argues that the post-COVID world will be shaped by how the...
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Using newly constructed spatially disaggregated data for London from 1801 to 1921, researchers Stephan Heblich, Stephen J Redding and Daniel Sturm show that the invention of the steam railway led to the first large-scale separation of workplace and residence. They...
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May 5, 2020
This paper investigates the relationship between media consumption, misinformation, and important attitudes and behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Researchers, including the Munk School’s Eric Merkley and Peter Loewen, find that comparatively more misinformation circulates on social media platforms,...
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April 29, 2020
Intangibles are the new basis for competition, and the U.S.-China tech “cold war” is changing assumptions about global commerce and geopolitics. Along with co-author Royce Mendes, Munk School’s Sean Speer and Robert Asselin make the case for a bold policy...
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