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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February 17, 2017
In this article, Aisha Ahmad asks why radical Islamist groups come to power in internal conflicts, a question that is relevant to current discussions of the Islamic State/ISIS and similar movements across the Middle East and South and Central Asia. The...
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In this research article, Jon Lindsay and colleague Eric Gartzke explore the relationship between cyber operations and nuclear deterrence. Nuclear command and control increasingly relies on computing networks that might be vulnerable to cyber attack. Yet nuclear deterrence and cyber operations...
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February 13, 2017
This Citizen Lab report describes an espionage operation using government-exclusive spyware to target a Mexican government food scientist and two public health advocates. All of the targets have been active supporters of Mexico’s soda tax, a public health measure to...
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This Citizen Lab report describes Nile Phish, an ongoing and extensive phishing campaign against Egyptian civil society. In recent years, Egypt has witnessed what is widely described as an “unprecedented crackdown,” on both civil society and dissent. Amidst this backdrop,...
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January 25, 2017
Jeffrey Reitz, director of the R.F. Harney Program in Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies, co-authored a report examining the extent of discrimination against skilled immigrants from Asian backgrounds in Canada today. The report asks whether this type of discrimination varies...
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This special issue of Review of Policy Research, edited by Teresa Kramarz and University of Sydney’s Susan Park, features two articles by Kramarz on environmental policy and the politics of environmental accountability. Access the journal
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November 30, 2016
This Citizen Lab report describes how WeChat, the most popular messaging app in China, censors content. The findings show WeChat has separate censorship policies for users in China and internationally. READ THE REPORT Read blog post from Citizen Lab Director...
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The African Union (AU) has prioritized its relationships with regional economic communities (RECs) in order to implement the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA). Yet a lack of clarity remains over roles and responsibilities. One such REC – the Economic...
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November 23, 2016
One of the United Nations’ 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere. A key mechanism for eliminating poverty is the guarantee that everyone has a form of legal identity.
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This paper from the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance considers the pros and cons of new taxes for Canada’s major cities. Read the paper
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