Brexit? Unlikely, but not inconceivable
June 2, 2016
Political Scientist Randall Hansen recently sat down with Business News Network (BNN) to discuss the United Kingdom’s upcoming referendum on whether to remain in the EU, it’s possible impact on the Canada-EU trade agreement and why it’s not inconceivable that Britain could vote to leave. The video clip is available here.
Citizen Lab exposes cyber espionage campaign
June 2, 2016
A new report from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab reveals a sophisticated international cyber-espionage campaign targeting journalists and activists whose work concerns the United Arab Emirates. The campaign used elaborate ruses, including fake organizations and journalists, to engage targets online, then entice them to open malicious files and links containing malware capable of monitoring […]
Trudeau’s election redefined politics of manliness, study suggests
May 30, 2016
According to a new study co-authored by recent U of T Political Science graduate Jerald Sabin, the often portrayed image of Trudeau as subordinate in a field of aggressive alpha males may have helped cast him as an agent of change in the 2015 election race, which had a strong focus on on the manliness […]
Need for subsidized daycare
May 13, 2016
Canadian parents may soon benefit from a national child care agreement. The federal government promised $400 million next year for daycare needs to provinces and territories conditional on the provinces and federal government agreeing on a national child-care framework that would establish ground rules for federal involvement in what is an area of provincial jurisdiction. […]
Holding the Government to account
May 6, 2016
In his latest column for The Ottawa Citizen Political Science Professor Peter Loewen discusses why the opposition parties – both leaderless and occasionally listless – must find ways to hold the government to greater account. The full article is available here.
Venezuela’s economic and energy crises deepens
May 5, 2016
A devastating drought has brought Venezuela, already facing economic and energy crises amid simmering political unrest, to the brink and threatens the future of the oil-rich nation. Speaking to CBC News, Donald Kingsbury, a professor of political science and Latin American studies at the University of Toronto said, “Simply put, a natural disaster is making […]
CPSA shortlisted authors
May 5, 2016
Two University of Toronto Political Science faculty have been shortlisted for CPSA book awards. Graham White’s book Made in Nunavut: An Experiment in Decentralized Government co-authored with Jack Hicks, was nominated for the 2016 Donald Smiley Prize while Rodney Haddow’s monograph Comparing Quebec and Ontario: Political Economy and Public Policy at the Turn of the […]
Randall Hansen on Saudi arms deal
May 1, 2016
Controversy continues over the federal government’s decision to approve export permits for the sale of combat vehicles worth $15 billion to Saudi Arabia. U of T News talked to Munk School of Global Affairs international security expert and Political Scientist Randall Hansen about the deal. The full article is available here.
Ridsdel Kidnapping: Beyond The Law
April 27, 2016
The news that Canadian hostage John Ridsdel had been murdered by his captors, the militant group Abu Sayyaf, has shocked Canadians in recent days. Political Science Professor Aisha Ahmad has been studying how jihadist groups finance their militant operations in civil wars across the world. U of T News asked her to comment on the […]
What non-status Indian Supreme Court ruling means
April 20, 2016
A much anticipated court case about Métis and non-status Indian rights finally came before the Supreme Court of Canada on April 14, 16 years after the legal wrangling began. The top court was asked to determine whether the approximately 200,000 Métis and 400,000 non-status Indians in Canada have the right to be treated as “Indians” […]