April 18, 2021 | Pearl Eliadis speaks to Global News about how Quebec's curfew is exacting a disproportionate adverse effect on the province's most marginalized people, including people who are unhoused.
May 14, 2021 | Max Bell School professor Taylor Owen recently chaired a virtual panel with competition ministers from five different countries. Among the topics discussed: the hotly debated new Australian News Media and Digital Platform Bargaining Code.
Read this article in the Columbia Journalism Review to learn more about the discussions.
April 19, 2021 | Your move, Kenney and Ford. Max Bell School professor Ken Boessenkool believes the Albertan and Ontarian premiers can design their own—superior—provincial plans by using carbon revenues to cut personal or corporate income taxes or boost childcare tax rebates, rather than giving restricted visa-cash-back style rebates.
April 21, 2021 | “The decision touches on virtually every aspect of the Canadian political landscape as it affects fundamental human rights. I cannot think that this will not go to the Supreme Court of Canada.” Pearl Eliadis, human rights lawyer and professor at the Max Bell School, is quoted in this article concerning the recent ruling by the Quebec Court of Appeal to uphold Bill 21.
April 2021 | In these recent Globe and Mail articles, Max Bell School professor David Shribman discusses Biden's post-Trump agenda, voting laws, and the potential for a GOP Presidential hopeful from the state of Florida.
Read the articles here:
April 16, 2021 | With the world in crisis, what's an intellectual to do?
October, 2020 | In the inaugural edition of The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations, read Jennifer Welsh's chapter on International law and peaceful change.
15 April, 2021 | In this panel conversation, Max Bell School director Chris Ragan shares his thoughts on the Conservative's newly revealed climate plan in a conversation with the Globe and Mail's Kelly Cryderman and political commentator Shakir Chambers.
Watch the panel. The panel discussion starts at 1:20:41.
March 1, 2021 | Software company Clearview AI has recently been discovered illegally scraping countless images of faces on the Internet and selling them to third-party organizations in Canada. Co-penned by Sonja Solomun, Research Director of the Centre for Media, Technology, and Democracy, this article looks at the consequences of using facial recognition for the purposes of widespread surveillance. Read on to learn more about Canadian privacy law needs to change in order to hold users of facial recognition technology accountable.
March 2021 | Max Bell Professor David Shribman has penned several articles covering the ongoing changes being instated by the Biden administration. To learn more about how the US has been dealing with the pandemic relief response, massive government spending, and the other challenges of adapting to new leadership, read the articles:
March 30, 2021 | This Times Colonist article examines a recent C.D. Howe Institute report, co-authored by Max Bell School professor Ken Boessenkool. Read about the report's proposal for improving Canadian daycare systems iteratively, rather than by pressing the reset button.
March 23, 2021 | In this recent article, Max Bell Professor Andrew Potter comments on the current diplomatic trajectory Canada is taking with China. To learn more about the economic and defense-related consequences involved, read on.
April 1, 2021 | Max Bell Professor Pearl Eliadis is quoted in this article, which takes a look at the recent Supreme Court case against comedian Mike Ward, and the consequences of a joke he made against the disability of Quebec artist Jérémy Gabriel. This piece encourages readers to consider the tense relationship between freedom of speech, artistic autonomy, and personal dignity.
May 5, 2021 | Max Bell Professor Pearl Eliadis delivered the opening address at Queen's Human Rights Law Club's “Human Rights in Pandemic Times" conference. In this article by the PKI Global Justice Journal, learn more about Eliadis' address and the conference's key takeaways.
March 5, 2021 | Google and Facebook have dominated digital advertising in search and social networking, creating a business model that is not based on the distribution of reliable information. Following the Australian government's recent mandate on tech regulation, Max Bell School Professor Taylor Owen discusses the plight of independent media and the reputable journalistic institutions that are at stake.