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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November 10, 2016
As Toronto City Council debates the future of the City’s long-term financial direction, a new IMFG Paper by noted Toronto historian Richard White, Financing the Golden Age: Municipal Finance in Toronto, 1950 to 1975, provides insights from the past. The...
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November 1, 2016
This Citizen Lab report reveals hidden keyword blacklists that are used to censor chats on three popular Chinese live streaming applications, YY, 9158, and Sina Show. Contrary to prior research and assumptions that Internet censorship in China operates under a uniform...
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October 25, 2016
In this article, in the International Affairs Forum Fall issue, Jillian Kohler examines corruption in the health sector, its negative impact on health services and call for more creative thinking around how to tackle corruption on a global scale. Read...
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October 17, 2016
While technology companies are often hailed as the future of the economy, that future may have already arrived in Toronto. David Wolfe, co-director of the Innovation Policy Lab, and MGA alumnus Travis Southin collaborated on a new report whose findings...
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September 23, 2016
Recently, David Wolfe, co-director of the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, presented at the Bay Area Economic Summit in Burlington. In this presentation, Wolfe encourages local leaders from all sectors to accelerate intentional intercity cooperation needed...
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September 21, 2016
This Citizen Lab report provides detailed evidence regarding the use of the services of Canadian company Netsweeper, Inc. to censor access to the Internet in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Read the report Read about this research in the news: Associated...
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August 25, 2016
This Citizen Lab report describes how a government targeted an internationally recognized human rights defender, Ahmed Mansoor, with the Trident, a chain of zero-day exploits designed to infect his iPhone with sophisticated commercial spyware. Read the report Read more about...
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August 23, 2016
The Internet Voting Project, led by Centre for e-Democracy Director Nicole Goodman, PhD, and funded by SSHRC, surveyed voters, candidates, and election administrators in 47 of the 97 municipalities that offered Internet voting in the October 2014 municipal elections in...
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August 2, 2016
This Citizen Lab report describes an elaborately staged malware operation with targets in the Syrian opposition. The operators have used a range of techniques to target Windows computers and Android phones with the apparent goal of penetrating the computers of...
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This compliance report monitors 10 priority commitments selected by the promises made by the G20 leaders at the Antalya Summit. It covers only the period from November 16, 2015, to April 6, 2016. Assessments are based on publicly available information...
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