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
September 13, 2022
September 1, 2022
January 11, 2021
Reach Faculty Mentor Erica Di Ruggiero co-wrote an article for The Conversation which was picked up by the National Post. Canada’s foreign policy efforts are fragmented, a jumble of trade and aid deals that fail to adequately consider that our...
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January 6, 2021
Anita McGahan co-authors this report from PLOS ONE investigates the efficacy of control policies for COVID-19 in around 40 jurisdictions, which include countries and states in the United States. The purpose is to provide policymakers and the general public with...
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January 6, 2021
Peter Loewen co-authors this report investigating the willingness of Canadians to be vaccinated, discussions about vaccination on social media, and how best to reach those unsure about taking a vaccine. The report finds that 65% of Canadians intend to take...
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New Citizen Lab report finds that in July and August 2020, government operatives used NSOGroup’s Pegasus spyware to hack 36 personal phones belonging to journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera.
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Established by the President of the Royal Society of Canada in April 2020, the RSC Task Force on COVID-19 was mandated to provide evidence-informed perspectives on major societal challenges in response to and recovery from COVID-19. The Task Force established a series...
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December 16, 2020
Is cyber conflict more like war, intelligence, or something else? Jon R. Lindsay argues that the stakes of this debate are not simply conceptual but institutional. United States Cyber Command emerged from the American intelligence community, but it has strong...
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December 13, 2020
A new Citizen Lab report reveals vulnerabilities in COVID-KAYA, a platform used by frontline healthcare workers in the Philippines.
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December 8, 2020
by Christopher Parsons December 8, 2020 Read the report in full and a list of frequently asked questions about Huawei and 5G. Communications technologies are always bound by politics. The ability to communicate more quickly, decode other parties’ secret communications,...
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December 2, 2020
In this article for the Quarterly Journal of Economics, co-authors Stephan Heblich, Stephen Redding, and Daniel Sturm use newly constructed spatially disaggregated data for London from 1801 to 1921 to argue that the invention of the steam railway led to...
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November 30, 2020
In this paper, Munk School Assistant Professor and Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence Avi Goldfarb discuss they ways artificial intelligence has the potential to change the conduct of war. Recent excitement about AI is driven by advances in the ability...
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