/maxbellschool/taxonomy/term/213/all en /maxbellschool/article/aftab-ahmed Meet Aftab Ahmed, a 2023 MPP alumnus and opinion columnist with over 100 published articles about the state of Bangladesh's fragile democracy. Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:03:16 +0000 Nav Pall 3034 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/taylor-owen-cited-article-about-facebook-leak-cbc-295436 <p>Documents leaked to UK journalists reveals a global lobbying operation carried out by Facebook targeting legislators around the world, including in countries like the U.K., United States, Canada, India and Brazil. </p> <p>Facebook promised to open a data centre in Canada to create jobs, in exchange for the federal government offering assurances that it would not impose its jurisdiction over the company's non-Canadian data. </p> Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:36:27 +0000 maneesha.karunagoda@mail.mcgill.ca 1349 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/conversation-taylor-owen-digital-media-scholar-mcgill-reporter-292043 <p>Taylor Owen sat down with the ƻ����Ժ Reporter to discuss media, technology, public policy and his appointment to the Max Bell School of Public Policy. </p> <p>"In January 2019, Taylor Owen will be joining the Max Bell School of Public Policy. A leading scholar of media, technology and public policy, Owen, will hold the Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications. Taylor Owen’s research focuses on the policy and governance challenges created by the rapid changes to the digital media and technology environment."</p> Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:13:38 +0000 allison.pinto@mail.mcgill.ca 1226 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/how-trudeau-faring-economically-ahead-pre-election-budget-bnn-bloomberg-295892 <p>March 18, 2019 | Prior to Canada’s next election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers his fourth and final budget. After surveying over a dozen economists to take stock of the government’s record on economic policy, Bloomberg has highlighted some key aspects in the policy. The question is “to what extent is Canada a place where you can come in and do reasonably risky big natural resource related projects,” said Chris Ragan, director of ƻ����Ժ’s Max Bell School of Public Policy. “The answer is increasingly ‘don’t come here.’”</p> Wed, 03 Apr 2019 16:31:35 +0000 maneesha.karunagoda@mail.mcgill.ca 1369 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/fiscal-responsibility-and-federal-budget-breakfast-television-montreal-295417 <p>March 14, 2019 | Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy, Dr Christopher Ragan, sat down with Breakfast Television Montreal to speak about the new 'fiscally responsible' budget, as proposed by the Finance minister, Morneau.</p> <p>"The new budget will be fiscally responsible". What does that mean about taxes, debt and spending? Dr. Christopher Ragan explains the new budget proposal and its effects.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RI3DREnE8U&list=PLbi4iNa8MkNLFwvrtvHAh5ELS73mT4ssG&index=2&t=0s">Watch the interview</a></p> <p> </p> Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:56:27 +0000 maneesha.karunagoda@mail.mcgill.ca 1344 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/federal-carbon-tax-comes-effect-ctv-power-play-295890 <p>April 1, 2019 | Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy, Christopher Ragan, sat down with Don Martin on Power Play to speak about the Federal Carbon Tax.</p> <p>"We respond to price changes, but we don't necessarily respond overnight," said Chris Ragan about the carbon tax. "This is a policy and a problem that we need solve over several decades, and this is just the beginning."</p> <p>Interview starts around 08:40 minute mark. </p> Wed, 03 Apr 2019 16:05:14 +0000 maneesha.karunagoda@mail.mcgill.ca 1367 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/theres-probably-more-consensus-output-based-pricing-you-think-canadas-eco-fiscal-commission-295993 <p>March 29, 2019 | "Meeting Canada’s climate targets in a way that is best for our economic prosperity requires broad policy that creates consistent incentives across all emissions in the economy, from individual households and small businesses to heavy industry. Output-based pricing must be a key part of that mix if Canada is to strike the right balance between pricing emissions and protecting competitiveness," says Chris Ragan, chair of Canada's Ecofiscal Commission and director of Max Bell School of Public Policy. </p> Fri, 05 Apr 2019 15:04:44 +0000 maneesha.karunagoda@mail.mcgill.ca 1374 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/introduction-federal-carbon-tax-cbc-power-politics-295986 <p>April 1, 2019 | Chris Ragan, Director of Max Bell School of Public Policy, joined CBC News Power and Politics, to discuss the federal carbon tax. "Carbon pricing is the lowest-cost method that we can use to combat climate change" argues Chris Ragan.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKlUHuI8cQM&list=PLbi4iNa8MkNLFwvrtvHAh5ELS73mT4ssG&index=2&t=1s">Watch the interview</a></p> Thu, 04 Apr 2019 21:27:57 +0000 maneesha.karunagoda@mail.mcgill.ca 1371 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/why-are-governments-slow-regulate-social-media-global-news-296184 <p>April 8, 2019 | Social media has been deeply ingrained in our daily lives and with the current spread of hate and misinformation, governments have been slow to regulate social media companies. Taylor Owen from ƻ����Ժ Univeristy, speaks with Global National’s Dawna Friesen on what can and should be done to stop the spread these false information and hate online.</p> <p><a href="https://globalnews.ca/video/5144195/why-are-governments-slow-to-regulate-social-media">Watch the interview</a></p> Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:29:31 +0000 maneesha.karunagoda@mail.mcgill.ca 1381 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/regulating-social-media-giants-reporter-296221 <p>April 9, 2019 | The Canadian government is now considering to actively regulate social media platforms such as Facebook, given the lack of results from self-regulation. "We better get the democratic governance right if we have any hope of pushing back against the autocratic model," said Taylor Owen, an associate professor at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at ƻ����Ժ in Montreal. "The challenge of (content moderation) is that it's the most difficult piece of this puzzle."</p> Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:12:51 +0000 maneesha.karunagoda@mail.mcgill.ca 1384 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/debunking-carbon-tax-myths-financial-post-296199 <p>April 5, 2019 | With the federal carbon tax coming in to the four provinces in Canada, how will it affect small businesses? Is the carbon tax constitutional?  Chris Ragan, economist and director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy debunks certain myths surrounding the federal carbon tax on Financial Post.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ-ZonYA89k">Watch the interview</a></p> Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:44:41 +0000 maneesha.karunagoda@mail.mcgill.ca 1382 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/news/taylor-owen-challenges-moderating-online-content-cbc-news-297259 <p>May 15, 2019 | ƻ����Ժ's Chair of Media, Ethics and Communications Taylor Owen joined CBC's Andrew Nichols to talk about the challenges in tackling online extremism. The technical challenges faced by world leaders and companies are, he says, very intricate and nuanced and require careful scanning and moderating. Beyond these technical difficulties, there is also a political dimension to this issue that requires a societal discussion on how "hate speech regulations" should be implemented. </p> Thu, 16 May 2019 15:51:22 +0000 lilia.brahimi@mail.mcgill.ca 1429 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/info-session-max-bell-schools-mpp-292453 <p>Join the Max Bell School of Public Policy, for an information session over lunch on the new Master of Public Policy Program at ƻ����Ժ. This session, delivered by Chris Ragan, Director of the Max Bell School, will answer all your questio</p> Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:07:17 +0000 allison.pinto@mail.mcgill.ca 1253 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/info-session-max-bell-schools-mpp-292452 <p>Join the Max Bell School of Public Policy, for an information session over lunch on the new Master of Public Policy Program at ƻ����Ժ. This session, delivered by Chris Ragan, Director of the Max Bell School, will answer all your questio</p> Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:05:34 +0000 allison.pinto@mail.mcgill.ca 1252 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/improving-canadas-tax-system-pre-election-breakfast-series-292945 <p>The Fall Economic Update contained a handful of tax measures designed to keep Canada’s businesses competitive with those of the United States. But what of the myriad other aspects of our tax system that might also be due for change?</p> Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:44:49 +0000 allison.pinto@mail.mcgill.ca 1273 at /maxbellschool