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New Ontario 360 Transition Briefing: After The Storm: An Overview Of Ontario’s Fiscal Challenges

March 1, 2022

Ontario 360’s goal is to inform election-related policy thinking. Today’s policy brief, After The Storm: An Overview of Ontario’s Fiscal Challenges, produced by Lakehead University economist Livio Di Matteo, sets out short- and long-term fiscal policy considerations for the next...

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New Ontario 360 Transition Brief by Munk School Senior Fellow Darrell Bricker

February 22, 2022

Here is the first policy brief in Ontario 360’s pre-election series that will run twice-weekly between now and the provincial election’s campaign kick-off. Ontario 360’s goal: to inform election-related policy thinking. Today marks 100 days to the provincial election on...

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Peter Loewen & Eric Merkley publish new research in Vaccine journal: The correlates and dynamics of COVID-19 vaccine-specific hesitancy

February 22, 2022

Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Peter Loewen, and Eric Merkley, professor of political science at UofT join to publish new research on vaccine hesitancy. A major finding is that people are more willing to...

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Phillip Lipscy in the Journal of Japanese Studies: Japan Transformed? The Foreign Policy Legacy of the Abe Government

February 18, 2022

In Phillip Lipscy’s new journal acticle, he critically assess foreign policy shifts under Japan’s former Prime Minister Abe Shinzō and evaluates the relative significance of individual, domestic, and international factors. Lipscy’s assessment of Abe’s legacy carries important implications for future...

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New Citizen Lab report: Pearl 2 Pegasus

February 18, 2022

Pearl 2 Pegasus is a joint report between Red Line for Gulf and The Citizen Lab by Bill Marczak, Ali Abdulemam, John Scott-Railton, Bahr Abdul-Razzak, Siena Anstis, Noura Al-Jizawi, and Ron Deibert. Key Findings Citizen Lab’s forensic analysis confirms that...

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Housing

IMFG Research Paper: Development Charges and Housing Affordability – A False Dichotomy?

February 17, 2022

In a new paper from the Munk School’s Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG), Adam Found argues that properly formulated development charges actually improve housing affordability. Read the paper here.

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New Ontario 360 Paper: Boosting Ontario’s Health Care Capacity

February 15, 2022

Ontario 360’s latest paper outlines how the Ontario government could draw on the experiences of other provinces to address increased surgical and diagnostic backlogs caused by the pandemic. The paper, “Surge Capacity: How to Address Ontario’s Medical Backlog”, is co-authored...

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Teresa Kramarz new research published in Environmental Politics: Extractive industry disasters and community responses – a typology of vulnerable subjects

February 3, 2022

Abstract from article: There is widespread recognition that environmental disasters disproportionately affect the poor in developing countries, yet certain kinds of violence also strip white, middle-class communities in industrialized countries of vital resources to respond. Social vulnerability as a mutually...

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Susan Park from the Environmental Governance Lab research published in a symposium for Environmental Politics

February 3, 2022

Environmental Politics recently published a symposium of research on The Politics of the 21st Century Environmental Disasters. Susan Park, from the Munk School’s Environmental Governance Lab contributed two articles to the symposium. Munk School professor and co-director of the Environmental...

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Cross-country Exposure: Analysis of the MY2022 Olympics app

January 18, 2022

This Citizen Lab report analyzes the MY2022, an app mandated for use by all attendees of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing. The report shows that the app has a simple but devastating flaw where encryption protecting users’ voice audio...

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