April 7, 2025 | Taylor Owen and Helen A. Hayes wrote an opinion piece arguing that Canada鈥檚 failure to regulate its digital space is no longer just a tech policy issue鈥攊t鈥檚 a national security concern. With rising disinformation and direct interference from the U.S., Canadians now view the United States as a greater foreign threat than China or Russia. Although the Trudeau government introduced several digital policy bills, including those addressing online harms, AI regulation, and cybersecurity, most were abandoned after Parliament was prorogued.
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Published on: 9 Apr 2025
March 31, 2025 | MPP '25 Nickson Mugabi鈥檚 wrote that while Uganda has made efforts to improve fiscal transparency, weak institutions and lack of accountability continue to undermine public trust. Drawing on Niall Ferguson鈥檚 warning that transparency without reform can deepen cynicism, Mugabi points to Uganda鈥檚 low budget transparency score and high-profile corruption scandals as evidence.
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Published on: 9 Apr 2025
April 3, 2025 | Professor听Vincent Rigby听and听Norman Hillmer, wrote about the lack of strategic approach of Canada to world affairs and how it has been slow to react to rapidly changing threats.
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Published on: 3 Apr 2025
April 1, 2025 | Professor Taylor Owen听spoke on the new social media regulations as the elections approaches closer. If social-media companies wanted to help improve election integrity, they could share what鈥檚 happening on their platforms with researchers, said Owen. X used to give researchers access to its application programming interface (API), or data, but now its most in-depth access level costs about $40,000 a month, mentioned Owen, which effectively shuts out Canadian researchers.
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Published on: 3 Apr 2025
April 1, 2025 |听Chris Ragan, explained that the end of carbon tax and how it will be affect Canadians in an news article at . Ragan says the drop in prices could be more gradual, though he agrees it is coming. "One of the less charming attributes of capitalism is that prices tend to fall more slowly than they rise," Ragan said.
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Published on: 3 Apr 2025
How disinformation, fake news and foreign interference threaten Canadian election | Montreal Gazette
March 31, 2025 |听Aengus Bridgman, director of the听听(MEO), spoke with The听Gazette about the threats of fake news, deepfakes and foreign interference infiltrating your social media feed have never been higher.听He cites an evolving geopolitical landscape, a reduction of safeguards by the main social media platforms and the advent of generative AI as game changers in the lead-up to election day on April 28.
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Published on: 3 Apr 2025
March 31, 2025 |听Aengus Bridgman, director of the听听(MEO), explains听about the state of the major platforms in Canada in 2025, how our information ecosystem is vulnerable to misinformation, and what we should be doing about it.听A contributor to听studies听on information issues in multiple federal and provincial elections, he is one of Canada鈥檚 leading experts on misinformation, digital activism, and the politics of digital media.
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Published on: 3 Apr 2025
March 30, 2025 | Professor听Jennifer Robson is the 2024-25 McConnell Visiting Scholar.听For the last 20 years, there has been no limit to how much you can invest outside of Canada in tax-preferred savings accounts like TFSAs and RRSPs. In a largely stable, rules-based, and tightly-integrated global market, that probably made sense for an open economy like ours (Canada).听
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Published on: 3 Apr 2025
March 11, 2025 |听Director听Jennifer Welsh听spoke about Canada surviving under Trump administration on .听Canada's foreign policy has long been influenced by the USA. So an important question arises now, how does Canada navigate in this new political climate? And how independent can Canada really become from the USA?
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Published on: 1 Apr 2025
March 24, 2025 |听With trust in journalism eroding, disinformation once fringe is now mainstream. Much of it is spreading on social media. Professor听Taylor Owen听says the online media environment in Canada is more fragile and vulnerable to manipulation than ever before. A dangerous situation at the best of times even more so during an election.
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Published on: 25 Mar 2025
March 21, 2025 | Aengus Bridgman, director of the 听(MEO), explains what worries him about the information voters are getting online this election and how to make sure one doesn't get duped on a . Since the last election social media landscape has changed a lot since the online news act came into affect.
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Published on: 25 Mar 2025
March 21, 2025 | Professor Pearl Eliadis听on banning of religious symbol in schools explains that the government鈥檚 use of the notwithstanding clause indicates it is aware the bill would not survive a Charter challenge. 鈥淭his is a government trying to out-PQ the PQ,鈥� Eliadis said, referring to the rival Parti Qu茅b茅cois and its focus on identity politics.
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Published on: 25 Mar 2025
March 20, 2025 | Professor听Vincent Rigby spoke on听the end of arctic exceptionalism on a of Center for Strategic &听International Studies. Climate change and the reduction in sea ice is opening new shipping routes, and making it easier to tap the arctic鈥檚 natural resource wealth, especially critical minerals.
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Published on: 25 Mar 2025
March 23, 2024 | An Opinion piece led by Professor Taylor Owen and听Peter MacLeod delves into the challenges that stand clear against Canada.听The country faces a war on two fronts: an economic campaign to weaken and ultimately annex us, and an information war to manipulate public opinion and destabilize our democracy. "As Canada enters a federal election campaign, the stakes couldn鈥檛 be higher.
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Published on: 24 Mar 2025
March 18, 2025 | Chris Ragan听spoke on how removing carbon tax would be detrimental for Canada, in an interview published by . 鈥淭he consumer carbon tax is not working, it鈥檚 become too divisive.鈥� Mr. Mark Carney said on social media. Which is why the carbon tax has been canned.听Mr.
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Published on: 20 Mar 2025
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