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
September 13, 2022
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January 17, 2022
Concerns have been raised whether rapid antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2 can result in false-positive test results and undermine pandemic management for COVID-19. This study, co-authored by Janice Stein, investigated the incidence of false-positive results in a large sample of rapid...
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January 12, 2022
Key Findings from Citizen Lab Our latest report uncovers a massive hacking campaign against media and civil society in El Salvador using NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. Together with our colleagues at Access Now, and in collaboration with Frontline Defenders, SocialTIC...
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December 16, 2021
Citizen Lab’s latest report reveals that the iPhone of exiled Egyptian politician Ayman Nour was simultaneously infected with two different kinds of spyware — NSO Group’s Pegasus and Predator, software built and sold by mercenary spyware developer Cytrox. The Pegasus...
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December 10, 2021
This report shows that while small in number, taken together, scale-ups are crucial in ensuring Canada’s long term economic sustainability. In order to unlock their full potential, policymakers need to carefully approach discussions around scale-ups, particularly in distinguishing the different...
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December 7, 2021
Led by Shauna Brail from the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy & folks from Spacing Magazine, a new report out today about the Regent Park revitalization. Read the full report or visit the Spacing website. Background: We...
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Although federal-provincial equalization is a source of regular debate in Canada, the importance of provincial-municipal equalization is often ignored. And, yet, provincial-municipal equalization is essential to ensure that that all residents of a province can access a reasonably comparable level...
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Scholars have linked cost and life stress to lower voter turnout with clear implications for voting during the COVID-19 pandemic. Peter Loewen and his researchers ask whether COVID-19 reduces turnout intention and how election agencies can mitigate this effect. These studies...
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November 11, 2021
The Roma are Europe’s largest minority group and face extensive discrimination. In a new @SF_Journal article, @ronleviutoronto, @isendroiu and J. Hagan draw on a survey of Roma and non-Roma households across Central and Eastern Europe and examine how legal cynicism and the avoidance of social...
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November 8, 2021
In October 2021, the human rights non-governmental organization (NGO) Front Line Defenders (FLD) began collecting data on the suspected hacking of the devices of several Palestinians working for civil society organizations based in the West Bank. FLD shared the data they collected...
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October 26, 2021
A new study by Peter Loewen in the Journal of Politics finds that better educated and richer voters tend to vote more strategically. Read the full article.
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