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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From the Ukrainian refugee crisis to the UK-Rwanda migrant deal, Professor of Law & Global Affairs, Ayelet Shachar shows how and why rich nations facing a trilemma in the immigration context learn from, and in certain cases, exceed, the policies...
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July 12, 2022
The supply chain disruptions precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic have led to renewed calls for industrial reshoring across advanced economies, and the Ontario government is no exception. What policies could the Ontario government deploy to strengthen capacities? And should the government’s goal be to reshore, or pursue more resilient supply chains?
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June 27, 2022
Climate change is impacting how Canada grows food. Climate change will introduce high levels of uncertainty in agriculture and impact the production of food through an increase in temperatures, fluctuation in precipitation levels, and an increased risk of extreme weather events (Mbow, Rosenzweig, et al. 2019). Canadians are already witnessing these impacts; in 2021, farmers across the country sustained millions of dollars of damage due to unprecedented droughts across the Prairies, flooding in British Columbia, and wildfires on the West Coast and across Northern Ontario (Gomez 2021; AP 2021; Lipski 2021). Government action is needed to prepare for this inevitable threat; this capstone project seeks to recommend just that. The three proposals outlined in this policy agenda – ADAPT, LEARN, and INNOVATE – present ways to tackle this challenge and build resilience to climate change in agriculture.
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June 24, 2022
By Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Carole-Anne Sénit, Marianne Beisheim, Steven Bernstein, Pamela Chasek, Leonie Grob, Rakhyun E. Kim, Louis J. Kotzé, Måns Nilsson, Andrea Ordóñez Llanos, Chukwumerije Okereke, Prajal Pradhan, Rob Raven, Yixian Sun, Marjanneke J. Vijge, Detlef van Vuuren & Birka Wicke June 20, 2022 Abstract In 2015, the United Nations agreed on 17 Sustainable Development Goals...
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Diana Fu is an Associate Professor in Political Science and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto and a 2021–22 Wilson China Fellow ABSTRACT Since Xi Jinping took power in 2012, advocacy-oriented...
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May 25, 2022
Canada’s Fast Track Partnership to Asia: The Republic of Korea
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Citizen Lab researchers analyzed Microsoft Bing’s autosuggestion system for censorship of the names of individuals, finding that, outside of names relating to eroticism, the second largest category of names censored from appearing in autosuggestions were those of Chinese party leaders,...
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The UN has declared universal health coverage an urgent global goal. Efforts to achieve this goal have been supported by rigorous research on the scientific, technical, and administrative aspects of health systems design. Yet a substantial portion of the world’s...
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Does information about how other people feel about COVID-19 vaccination affect immunization intentions? Along with their co-authors, Peter Loewen and Eric Merkley conducted pre-registered survey experiments in Great Britain (5,456 respondents across three survey waves from September 2020 – February...
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In October 2018, public research by the Citizen Lab, a research laboratory at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, documented how a Saudi dissident living in Montreal, Canada, was likely targeted with...
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