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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September 27, 2018
Authors Stephan Heblich and Alex Trew establish a causal role for banking access in the spread of the Industrial Revolution over the period 1817–1881 by exploiting unique employment data from 10,528 parishes across England and Wales and a novel instrument....
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Authors Stephan Heblich and Alex Trew establish a causal role for banking access in the spread of the Industrial Revolution over the period 1817–1881 by exploiting unique employment data from 10,528 parishes across England and Wales and a novel instrument....
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June 5, 2018
Platform economy firms such as Uber and Airbnb have attracted attention in cities around the world, given the impact of these firms on the existing taxi industry or the rental market, but little has been written about the effects of...
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June 5, 2018
In the past few years, a growing number of urbanists, planners, technology companies, and governance experts have started to use the term “smart city.” Some define smart cities in terms of using emerging and established technologies to improve the performance...
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This paper studies the role of leaders in the social movement against slavery that culminated in the U.S. Civil War. Authors Christian Dippel and Stephan Heblich’s analysis is organized around a natural experiment: leaders of the failed German revolution of...
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April 25, 2018
This report describes Citizen Lab’s investigation into the global proliferation of Internet filtering systems manufactured by the Canadian company, Netsweeper, Inc. After undertaking a mapping of worldwide country installations, Citizen Lab focuses in on ten country cases in which they...
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April 20, 2018
In this report, David Wolfe provides an overview of the opportunities for Canadian policymakers as they navigate the digital economy. Read the report
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April 17, 2018
Fracking has revolutionized international oil and gas markets practically overnight, but its impact on local public finance and governance have largely been overlooked. While operating under federal and state constraints, the key ongoing policy question is whether and to what...
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March 15, 2018
Municipalities are crucial stakeholders in the response to climate change. Cities are major sources of greenhouse gas emissions and, due to their higher building and population densities, will bear the brunt of the economic and social costs imposed by extreme...
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February 12, 2018
Established in February 2017, Toronto Global is a leading investment attraction agency in Canada and one which is designed to act on behalf of all of the municipalities that comprise the Toronto Region. The underlying rationale for the establishment of...
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