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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Co-authored by Gabriel Eidelman, this research note describes the Canadian Municipal Elections Database (CMED), a new publicly available and actively maintained dataset of more than 24,000 municipal elections in Canada. The authors describe the need for high-quality election results data...
Read full articleApril 30, 2021
Anti-intellectualism (the generalized distrust of experts and intellectuals) is an important concept in explaining the public’s engagement with advice from scientists and experts. Eric Merkley and Peter Loewen ask whether it has shaped the mass public’s response to coronavirus disease...
Read full articleApril 20, 2021
Co-authored by University of Toronto professors Matti Siemiatycki and Drew Fagan, this report outlines the complex planning context regarding transit-oriented communities, including the Ontario government’s recently passed Transit-Oriented Communities Act. The authors set out the three “Ds” – density, diversity,...
Read full articleApril 16, 2021
Job polarization is one of several trends — including automation, offshoring and the growing importance of the gig-economy — that were already of general interest prior to the onset of the pandemic, but which have been pushed even further into...
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Non-democratic regimes have increasingly moved beyond merely suppressing online discourse, and are shifting toward proactively subverting and co-opting social media for their own purposes. Namely, social media is increasingly being used to undermine the opposition, to shape the contours of...
Read full articleApril 9, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored deficits in global cooperation in public health and exacerbated trends of protectionism, nationalism and xenophobia, presenting clear dangers to the hope of global solidarity in public health. Written by Jillian Kohler for HealthcarePapers, this report...
Read full articleApril 6, 2021
Renewable energy (RE) is critical for curbing global greenhouse gas emissions to achieve 2 to 4 degrees of global warming by 2100. While this is an imperative technical response to the climate crisis, the shift to renewables is also driving...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been met with unparalleled government fiscal action and mass public mobilization. This paper by Peter Loewen and others for the Journal of Experimental Political Science investigates that action and mobilization, noting that while citizens participated in...
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Cross-national research shows that large firms, especially those in digitally intensive sectors, exhibit significantly greater market power, higher levels of productivity, and greater innovation capacity. But the challenge of supporting the current generation of scale-ups, the group from which the...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has occurred alongside a worldwide infodemic where unprecedented levels of misinformation have contributed to widespread misconceptions about the novel coronavirus. Conspiracy theories, poorly sourced medical advice, and information trivializing the virus have ignored national borders and spread...
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