November 27, 2019 | Max Bell School Director Chris Ragan discusses the聽Ecofiscal Commission's final report on how Canada can meet its 2030 emissions goals with a carbon pricing policy....
April 17, 2020聽| The digital age has completely disrupted global governance. Now that COVID-19 has disrupted nearly everything else, it is time to start planning for what comes next, say Max Bell...
August 8, 2019 | In an age where information is increasingly scrutinized yet more easily diffusable than ever, Canadians might be more misinformed than disinformed. New findings from the Digital...
August 8, 2019 | The聽Digital Democracy Project, an initiative of聽Max Bell School of Public Policy in collaboration with the Public Policy Forum, analyzes the increasing amounts of disinformation...
February 9,聽2020|聽The federal government is worried聽about the risk of voter coercion and foreign election interference through private messaging services 鈥 a concern that could pit the right to...
May 24, 2019 | The news release put聽by Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez begins well: "The Government of Canada understands that for a democracy to function properly, it needs to have solid,...
January 7, 2020聽| There are serious concerns about how Facebook will police deepfake videos. Max Bell School professor Taylor Owen talks about why these sophisticated videos need editorial oversight.
With the final report of Canada鈥檚聽Ecofiscal Commission聽out and its clear support for carbon pricing 鈥 most notably, a 40-cent tax hike on a litre of gas over the next decade 鈥 making headlines,...
February 14, 2020 |Rapid advances in facial-recognition technology have the potential for vast social consequences. In response to the scale and speed of these developments and the clear potential...