Jackman Fellowship Award
September 13, 2016
Jennifer Nedelsky, Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Toronto, has been awarded a 2016 – 2017 Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) Faculty Research Fellowship for her project entitled ‘(Part) Time for All: Generating New Norms of Work and Care.’ JHI Research Fellowships are awarded to tenured faculty members and chosen for their […]
Building closer relations with China
September 13, 2016
In her latest article for OpenCanada Lynette H. Ong, Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, argues that informal strategies, particularly youth engagement, are politically optimal to engage with China, Canada’s second largest trading partner and a rising superpower. The full article is available here.
APSA Award
September 7, 2016
Congratulations to one of our graduates Zack Taylor, who recently received the best dissertation award from the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Urban and Local Politics section. On the basis of archival and interview research, Zack’s dissertation unpacks the long-term institutional processes that produced different forms of urban multi-level governance in Canadian and American metropolitan […]
Remembering Cranford Pratt
September 6, 2016
Cranford Pratt (October 8, 1926 – September 4, 2016) Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Toronto, passed away peacefully early Sunday morning after an evening surrounded by many of his close family, watching the Blue Jays game. Cran is lovingly remembered by his wife Renate (nee Hecht); his sister Margaret (Peg); his children, Anna, […]
Copenhagen: a good act to follow in curbing carbon
September 2, 2016
Matt Hoffmann, a professor of political science and co-director of the Environment Governance Lab (EGL) at the Munk School, recently spent three months in Denmark’s capital as part of a five-year project to study transformations towards “decarbonization,” which refers to decreasing the reliance on fossil fuels. He and the lab’s co-director, political scientist Steven Bernstein, […]
East Toronto byelection dominated by sex-ed issue
September 1, 2016
In the Scarborough-Rouge River section of east Toronto the Progressive Conservatives are being accused of exploiting the government’s sex-ed curriculum’s unpopularity for political gain. University of Toronto Political Scientist Chris Cochrane discusses what the implications might be for the Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown, in light of his recent declaration that he didn’t know about […]
Kirton on G20 priorities
August 29, 2016
The upcoming G20 forum should make green growth one of the three areas that world leaders at the summit should coordinate fiscal stimulus to support, according to University of Toronto Political Scientist John Kirton. The other two, according to Kirton are infrastructure and structural reform. G20, which first came into being as a club of […]
Phones as spying devices
August 26, 2016
Featured prominently in the media this week was news from experts at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab along with security company Lookout that iPhone users should update their software to fix a dangerous security flaw that could allow hackers to secretly track a user’s data. The flaw was discovered after the human rights activist […]
Why the Canadian International Air show is more than noise pollution
August 26, 2016
In his latest op-ed for The Toronto Star, University of Toronto political science PhD candidate Craig Damian Smith discusses why the upcoming International Air Show is a matter of more than simple noise pollution. The full article is available here.
Referendum on electoral reform?
August 19, 2016
Nelson Wiseman, Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and director of the Canadian Studies Program, examines the implications if Parliament opts for a referendum on electoral reform saying it will prove to be ‘an expensive and unnecessary flop.’ The full Globe and Mail article is available here.