January 2, 2022 |听What do China and Qatar have in common? They will be hosting two main sporting events in 2022, and have strict听authoritarian regimes,听Jennifer Welsh听explores in this co-written article.
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Published on: 5 Jan 2022
January 4, 2022 | In a special to听The Globe and Mail, David Shribman听discusses the furious debates Americans are having as the one-year anniversary of the听siege at the Capitol arrives.
"The battle of Capitol Hill is being fought again, this time in public discourse 鈥� and Americans, perhaps even more divided today than they were on Jan. 6, 2021, are approaching this anniversary of anguish with apprehension."
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Published on: 5 Jan 2022
December 24, 2021 | After Director Christopher Ragan 听in the听Hub that perhaps Freeland and Macklem actually disagree about how the central bank should conduct policy听rather than they united front they presented to the public, The Regina Leader Post included his commentary in an article about the Bank of Canada's new five-year mandate.
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Published on: 5 Jan 2022
December 28, 2021 | Pearl Eliadis commented听that this legislation is the latest in a years-long push to effectively authorise "blatant discrimination against religious minorities in Quebec".
Eliadis said that while it was important to have protections in place for the French language, with Bill 96, "Quebec is starting to drift off into territory where they're really prepared to take pretty much any measures, sometimes outside the law ... to achieve that goal."
"It's not entirely clear to me that the world understands how radical this is."
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Published on: 5 Jan 2022
Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications and director of The Center for Media, Technology and Democracy Taylor Owen will join University of Toronto's Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society for their SRI Seminar Series, which features emerging scholars at the intersection of technology and society, on February 9. Registration is free and available .
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Published on: 5 Jan 2022
December 15, 2021 | Director听Christopher Ragan joins The Hill Times' The Hot Room podcast to explain how inflation works, whether the Trudeau government is to blame for rising prices, and the Bank of Canada's new-look plan to manage it.
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Published on: 16 Dec 2021
December 1, 2021 | A recent Supreme Court ruling has narrowed the听scope of jurisdiction on discrimination cases. Max Bell School professor Pearl Eliadis听argues that this new precedent is dangerous, running counter to the direction in which human rights law has evolved.
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Published on: 9 Dec 2021
November 23, 2021听| How does the public perception of inflation affect their expectations for the future? While the devastation of historic inflation in the United States lingers only in the minds of older Americans, younger generations are also feeling the strain on their spending habits. In this article for the Globe and Mail, Max Bell School instructor David Shribman comments on the trajectory of inflation, and how this may affect everyday life.听
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Published on: 23 Nov 2021
November 18, 2021 | What are the experiences of female ex-soldiers upon their return to civilian society? Using the research they conducted in Nepal and Colombia, Luna K.C. and听Priscyll Anctil Avoine examine the social and political setbacks these women encounter in the transition to peace.
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Published on: 18 Nov 2021
Pandemic Societies:听Max Bell School professor Daniel Weinstock contributed to this timely book on听the durable transformations the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about in our societies.
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Published on: 16 Nov 2021
November 7, 2021听| Co-written by Max Bell School Professor Taylor Owen with Sonja Solomun, their article in the National Post looks at how the recently leaked Facebook Papers have spurred public concern and further debate on how policy should endeavor make these platforms more听transparent and accountable.
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Published on: 16 Nov 2021
November 14, 2021 | In his latest piece for the Globe and Mail, Max Bell School professor David Shribman听explains how the Republican Party is seeking to transition away听from its reputation as being听the party of Big Business, instead leaning into trust-busting and other strategies for reining in the power of America's corporations.
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Published on: 16 Nov 2021
November 11, 2021 | In this article, Max Bell School Professor Pearl Eliadis expresses her concern over the human rights restrictions that Quebec's Bill 96 poses, particularly to recent immigrants and other vulnerable individuals.听
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Published on: 16 Nov 2021
November 12, 2021 | Following a dialogue between The Hub and Max Bell School Director Chris Ragan, this article outlines the history of the Bank of Canada's agreement with the federal government leading up to the mandate's expiration in听January 2022.
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Published on: 15 Nov 2021
November 8, 2021 | Max Bell School professor Taylor Owen recently spoke at a听virtual symposium hosted by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.听鈥淲e鈥檝e had this experience where everybody needs to know similar things and trust similar institutions, and even behave in similar ways, (like) taking a vaccine. It鈥檚 difficult because antivax content and misinformation about the vaccine, and about the pandemic itself, has been incentivized to circulate far and wide.鈥�
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Published on: 9 Nov 2021
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