/maxbellschool/taxonomy/term/1232/all en /maxbellschool/channels/news/pearl-eliadis-appointed-official-language-rights-expert-panel-344920 <p>Max Bell School Associate Professor Pearl Eliadis, has been selected to the Official Language Rights Expert Panel of the federal Government’s Court Challenges Program (CCP).</p> <p>The objective of the CCP is to provide financial support to Canadians to bring before the courts test cases of national significance that aim to clarify and assert certain constitutional and quasi-constitutional official language rights and human rights.</p> Fri, 13 Jan 2023 18:18:57 +0000 navneet.pall@mcgill.ca 2953 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/quebec-says-covid-19-vaccine-passport-are-coming-ctv-news-332357 <p>As Quebec moves forward with a plan to implement vaccine passports for some non-essential services, Max Bell School professor Pearl Eliadis weighed in on possible legal and social implications.</p> <p><a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2255224">Watch the video</a>.</p> Wed, 11 Aug 2021 19:44:32 +0000 matthew.mclaughlin2@mail.mcgill.ca 2624 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/socialist-insecurity-politics-pensions-communist-and-post-communist-russia-324633 <p>Twentieth-century Eastern European socialist economies promised comprehensive welfare benefits “from the cradle to the grave,” including generous state pensions, and had some of the lowest pension ages in the world; however, the expense of this ag</p> Wed, 16 Sep 2020 18:38:28 +0000 chloe.rodriguez@mail.mcgill.ca 2130 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/all-zoom-all-time-reflections-moving-civil-society-online-324461 <p>The institutions of civil society (unions, religious institutions, "the arts", etc..) perform a vital function in the life of liberal democracies. It's no surprise that it is one of the first targets of aspiring tyrants.</p> Fri, 11 Sep 2020 14:37:22 +0000 chloe.rodriguez@mail.mcgill.ca 2124 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/policy-lecture-yann-allard-tremblay-324634 <p>What would it mean to reconcile the sovereignty of the Crown with the pre-existence of Indigenous societies and what are our responsibilities in this matter?</p> Wed, 16 Sep 2020 18:46:42 +0000 chloe.rodriguez@mail.mcgill.ca 2131 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/policy-making-and-china-howard-balloch-324635 <p>Canada’s China Policy: Drawing on his more than 35 years of diplomatic and business experience in and with China, Howard Balloch will discuss the policy challenges posed by a rapidly changing China in an increasingly uncertain global environment.</p> Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:05:45 +0000 chloe.rodriguez@mail.mcgill.ca 2132 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/fake-news-preys-emotions-expert-warns-300914 <p>August 10, 2019| Beware of things you see online that make you emotional, one media expert warns ahead of the fall election.  Taylor Owen, professor at ƻ����Ժ and the co-creator of the Digital Democracy Project, says fake news often preys on feelings like anger and fear.</p> <p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1584564291585/">Listen to the Interview</a></p> Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:50:52 +0000 kunal.rakshit@mail.mcgill.ca 1597 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/canadians-media-consumption-habits-lead-misinformation-study-finds-300912 <p>August 7, 2019 | Canadians aren’t as divided into partisan echo chambers as social media would suggest, but a heavy news diet doesn't guarantee you'll be informed, a new study has found.</p> <p><a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/08/07/news/canadians-media-consumption-habits-lead-misinformation-study-finds">Read the Article</a></p> Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:45:58 +0000 kunal.rakshit@mail.mcgill.ca 1596 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/canadian-polarized-social-media-use-likely-not-culprit-study-300916 <p>September 12, 2019 | Social media might not be to blame for Canadians’ ideological polarization, a new report on digital democracy in Canada finds. “A lot of people don’t use social media very actively,” said Eric Merkley, a researcher on the project. “People on Twitter are not representative of the broader population.”</p> Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:59:26 +0000 kunal.rakshit@mail.mcgill.ca 1599 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/19-million-canadians-have-had-their-data-breached-eight-months-300915 <p>September 2, 2019 | An estimated 19 million Canadians have been affected by data breaches between November 2018 and June 2019, according to numbers obtained by "Attention Control with Kevin Newman," a new podcast that launched Monday. The numbers come from 446 breaches that were reported to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC). Victims of these kinds of data breaches are vulnerable to identity theft, financial crime, even violence in some cases.   </p> Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:55:09 +0000 kunal.rakshit@mail.mcgill.ca 1598 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/taylor-owen-deepfakes-cbc-national-304112 <p>January 7, 2020 | 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.</p> Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:44:56 +0000 katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca 1731 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/role-nation-state-global-networked-society-302056 <p><em>This talk by Mark Lloyd is part of our Fall 2019 Policy Lecture series. These academic talks are intended for ƻ����Ժ students and faculty.</em></p> Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:07:23 +0000 kunal.rakshit@mail.mcgill.ca 1637 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/british-policy-slavery-indian-ocean-world-1807-1945-302059 <p><em>This talk by Gwyn Campbell is part of our Fall 2019 Policy Lecture series. These academic talks are intended for ƻ����Ժ students and faculty.</em></p> Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:06:48 +0000 kunal.rakshit@mail.mcgill.ca 1639 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/public-policy-slave-owners-smallpox-inoculation-british-caribbean-1700s-1740s-300515 <p><em>This talk by Jason Opal is part of our Fall 2019 Policy Lecture series. These academic talks are intended for ƻ����Ժ students and faculty.</em></p> Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:23:37 +0000 kunal.rakshit@mail.mcgill.ca 1573 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/implementing-2030-agenda-global-governance-and-rise-non-state-actors-300514 <p><em>This talk by Prof. Sonia Laszlo is part of our Fall 2019 Policy Lecture series. These academic talks are intended for ƻ����Ժ graduate students and faculty.</em></p> Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:21:02 +0000 kunal.rakshit@mail.mcgill.ca 1572 at /maxbellschool