Important to protect privacy as government seeks to combat crime in the digital era
February 1, 2012
Director of U of T’s Citizen Lab addresses lawful access symposium Article by Irene Poetranto Publised Monday, January 30, 2012, UofT News Fighting cybercrime and infringing on personal privacy need not go hand-in-hand, University of Toronto Professor Ron Deibert told the audience at a recent symposium to discuss the implications of proposed federal lawful access […]
Debate 'shootouts' not NDP style, says Nelson Wiseman
January 30, 2012
Article by The Canadian Press, published on Saturday Jan. 28, 2012 12:52 PM ET HALIFAX — A professor of political science says the lack of fireworks at NDP leadership debates thus far is in keeping with the party’s culture and ideology. The eight New Democratic Party leadership hopefuls will be in Halifax, N.S., on Sunday […]
“The Conservatives have the strongest core base, and there is a tussle going on between the NDP and the Liberals,” said Nelson Wiseman
January 26, 2012
Support for federal Tories waning, Liberals gaining steam: poll Article by Kenyon Wallace Published January 26, 2012 in The Toronto Star The federal Conservatives have slipped from majority territory as the New Democrats continue to nip at the governing party’s heals, a new Harris/Decima poll of federal voting intentions reveals. The poll, conducted from January […]
“There is an arms race in cyberspace and it’s caught up with Iran,” says Ron Deibert
January 25, 2012
Iran’s dissidents head online but the regime is there, waiting for them Article by Olivia Ward, Foreign Affairs Reporter Published On Tue Jan 24 2012, The Toronto Star Iran’s Green Revolution geeks are taking their struggle to cyberspace, but the clerical regime’s censors are already there — and gunning for them. “There is an arms […]
Nelson Wiseman takes a look at the NDP Leadership Race
January 13, 2012
Handicapping the NDP leadership race: Mulcair, Topp and Nash are front-runners. Article by Nelson Wiseman, who teaches political science at the University of Toronto Tuesday, January 10, 2012, The Straight Goods “Canada’s successful parties have always been personality-oriented parties driven by their leaders.” Read the full article at The Straight Goods.
The Star's 12 to watch in 2012: Alexander Levy
January 10, 2012
Published On Mon Jan 09 2012 Vanessa Lu, Business Reporter Alexander Levy never imagined he’d be running a mobile app company. In 2009 he was finishing up his political science degree at the University of Toronto and was planning to go to law school when he took a part-time research assistant job at the Technologies […]
Ron Deibert on the Toronto Star's top Canadian thinkers list
January 10, 2012
Ron Deibert, professor and director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, has been named as one of Canada’s top thinkers according to the Toronto Star because he “cultivates a hothouse where human rights meet cyberspace.” He has won kudos as one of the five most influential IT security thinkers in […]
Undergraduate Award Reception
January 9, 2012
The Annual Undergraduate Award Reception was held on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 in the Political Science Lounge and celebrated the award recipients from the 2010-2011 academic year. One of the awards is the Pollara Statistical Confidence Award, which is awarded to the student who produces the best research report in POL 242Y. The 2010-11 recipient […]
Alanna Krolikowski Awarded Sylvia Ostry Doctoral Fellowship in International Policy
January 9, 2012
Alanna Krolikowski, who is completing her doctoral dissertation in Political Science, has won the inaugural Sylvia Ostry Doctoral Fellowship in International Policy. She is also affiliated with the Asian Institute. The fellowship is supported by an endowment gift from Dr. Sylvia Ostry and her family. Administered by the Munk School of Global Affairs, the fellowship […]
Embrace this blessing in disguise; Freedom of religion is not itself religious – it puts religion in its proper place, argues Clifford Orwin
January 9, 2012
Religious-freedom office is a blessing, non-believers Article by Clifford Orwin, Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto; Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution 9 January 2012, The Globe and Mail It’s easy to make a bad argument against the Harper government’s plan to establish an Office of Religious Freedom within the Department […]