On June 14, 2022, the Government of Canada introduced “Bill C-26: An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts.” If passed into law, it will significantly reform the Telecommunications Act as well as impose new requirements on federally regulated critical infrastructure providers
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August 21, 2015
The violent attacks on journalists at Charlie Hebdo and shoppers in a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January 2015 left seventeen dead and shocked the world. After the Paris Attacks brings together leading scholars and journalists to respond to this tragedy and to debate how we can reach a safer and saner future.
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August 20, 2015
By examining different commercialization models, this book analyses technology transfer at universities as part of a national and regional system.
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August 7, 2015
By Dilip Soman Most organizations spend much of their effort on the start of the value creation process: namely, creating a strategy, developing new products or services, and analyzing the market. They pay a lot less attention to the end:...
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June 29, 2015
Read more about the new anthology co-edited by Prof. Angelica Fenner.
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April 29, 2015
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of eugenics in North America focused on the second half of the twentieth century. Based on new research, Randall Hansen and Desmond King show why eugenic sterilization policies persisted after the 1940s in the United States and Canada.
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April 23, 2015
Edited by Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack Is Your City Healthy asks: what are the elements of fiscal health, how do we measure it, and why is it important? Eight experts in the field look at the range of...
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July 30, 2014
ISRN Volume Series book launch on the social dynamicxs of innovation, creativity and civic governance in Canadian cities, including “Innovating in Urban Economies” edited by Professor David Wolfe.
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July 28, 2014
By Randall Hansen On July 20, 1944, Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was executed in the courtyard of the Third Reich’s military headquarters in Berlin for attempting to assassinate Adolf Hitler. A member of the unsuccessful plot to overthrow...
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July 21, 2014
Today, universities around the world find themselves going beyond the traditional roles of research and teaching to drive the development of local economies through collaborations with industry. At a time when regions with universities are seeking best practices among their peers, Shiri M. Breznitz argues against the notion that one university’s successful technology transfer model can be easily transported to another.
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May 20, 2014
Historian Julie F. Gilmour traces the impact of the events surrounding the 1907 Vancouver riot on the life and work of future prime minister W.L. Mackenzie King, and on Canada’s relationships with Britain, the United States, China, Japan, and India.
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