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April 21, 2025 | In an interview with The New York Times, Aengus Bridgman warns that Meta’s 2023 news ban on Facebook and Instagram in Canada has left the country’s online media environment vulnerable to disinformation and polarization ahead of the federal election. With mainstream news blocked, hyperpartisan pages like Canada Proud have surged in popularity, spreading misleading content and amplifying political division.

Classified as: Aengus Bridgman, Canadian elections, media, disinformation
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Published on: 25 Apr 2025

April 13, 2025 | In a recent interview, Taylor Owen warned that Canada’s online media environment is more fragile and susceptible to manipulation than ever before. As trust in journalism declines, he explained that political support for far-right parties abroad often backfires, making Canadian politicians cautious. He highlighted the challenges of detecting foreign interference on platforms like Twitter, especially without strong transparency laws such as the failed Online Harms Act.

Classified as: taylor owen, Canadian elections, disinformation, media
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Published on: 25 Apr 2025

April 23, 2025 | Taylor Owen, principal investigator for the Media Ecosystem Observatory, highlights the growing challenge of disinformation in Canada’s high-stakes federal election. In an interview with Steve Paikin on TVO Today, Owen explains how the rapid spread of false and misleading information online is making it increasingly difficult for voters to distinguish fact from fiction.

Classified as: taylor owen, media, disinformation, Canadian elections
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Published on: 25 Apr 2025

April 24, 2025 | With less than a week before the federal election, Taylor Owen sat down with Jim Balsillie—former co-CEO of Research in Motion and one of Canada’s most prominent business leaders—to discuss why Canada’s economy is falling behind and what must change. As Donald Trump escalates attacks on the Canadian economy and hints at turning Canada into the “51st state,” Balsillie argues the real threat to Canadian sovereignty isn’t Trump—it’s decades of political complacency and corporate capture.

Classified as: taylor owen, Canadian elections, economy
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Published on: 25 Apr 2025

March 24, 2025 | In a recent interview with CBC, Taylor Owen, Director of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, warned that Canada’s online media environment is more fragile and susceptible to manipulation than ever before. As trust in journalism declines, Owen explains, disinformation that once existed on the fringes is now entering the mainstream—largely through social media platforms.

Classified as: taylor owen, media ecosystem observatory, Canadian elections
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Published on: 25 Apr 2025

April 16, 2025 | In an interview on The Paul Wells Show, Taylor Owen, founding director of the Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at ĢƵ, raised urgent concerns about online election interference in Canada. Drawing from his work with the Media Ecosystem Observatory, Owen explains how foreign and domestic actors attempt to sway public opinion through misinformation and platform manipulation. He emphasizes that while online interference is not always overt, its cumulative effect undermines democratic processes.

Classified as: taylor owen, media ecosystem observatory, Canadian elections
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Published on: 25 Apr 2025

April 18, 2025 | In an interview with The Guardian, Media Ecosystem Observatory Executive Director Aengus Bridgman warned of a dramatic surge in fake political content on social media as Canadians prepare to vote in the federal election. Bridgman explains that, despite Meta’s ban on Canadian news sharing, more than half of Canadians still rely on Facebook for political information—now increasingly shaped by fake headlines, fraudulent ads, and deepfake videos.

Classified as: Aengus Bridgman, media ecosystem observatory, Election, Canadian elections
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Published on: 25 Apr 2025

As the U.S. government moves to erase large amounts of scientific data, including climate data, from its websites, researchers at ĢƵ in Montreal are helping the scientific community safeguard what might otherwise be lost.

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Published on: 25 Apr 2025

SOCI 395: Sociology of Law was honoured to welcome Supreme Court Justice Andromache Karakatsanis as a guest lecturer this past Winter 2025 semester.

Justice Karakatsanis shared reflections on her career trajectory and spoke to the relationship between law and society.

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Published on: 24 Apr 2025

Global Pasts Works-in-Progress Workshop

Classified as: RGGP, Research Group on Global Pasts, Yan P. Lin Centre
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Published on: 24 Apr 2025

The Faculty of Law was again ranked among the world’s top universities at which to study law by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject in Law and Legal Studies placed ĢƵ Law 41st worldwide.

Since QS introduced the ranking in 2011, the Faculty of Law has consistently placed in the top 50 institutions globally. The QS ranking is based on academic reputation, employer reputation, H-index citations, and citations per paper.

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Published on: 24 Apr 2025

Please be advised that ĢƵ has mandated CORENOV CONSTRUCTEURS to carry out the following project:23-027 Duff, CFI IF 2023, Siegel

Description:Renovation of lab 615 including replacement of ceiling tiles, repairs to floors/walls, installation of new lab bench and sink

Construction start date: April 28, 2025

Planned construction end date: End of May 2025

Work schedule: Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Classified as: Duff
Published on: 24 Apr 2025

ĢƵ researchers, in collaboration with Mexican scientists, have discovered two previously unknown species of crocodiles, one living on the island of Cozumel and the other on the atoll of Banco Chinchorro, both off the Yucatán Peninsula. The challenge long-held assumptions about the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) and highlight the urgent need for conservation efforts, the researchers say.

Published on: 24 Apr 2025

March 2025 | In a 2024 policy brief for the Collectif québécois pour la prévention de l’itinérance (CQPI), Pearl Eliadis, alongside Melissa Shemirani and Angelina Freeman, highlights the urgent need for increased investment in second-stage shelters for women and children fleeing domestic and intimate partner violence. Building on a 2022 recommendation from CQPI’s Gender Research Stream, the team conducted a rapid literature review that found second-stage housing plays a vital role in bridging the gap between emergency shelters and permanent housing.

Classified as: violence, Pearl Eliadis, housing
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Published on: 23 Apr 2025

La version française suit.

This message is sent on behalf of Serge Bergeron, Senior Director, Budget and Finance , Analysis, Planning and Budget and Lara Pereira, Controller, Financial Services

Dear Colleagues,

The overhead recovery fee currently being charged on actual revenues earned in non-1A unrestricted funds will remain at 7.5% in FY2026. This is unchanged from FY2025. The process for collecting and recording of this fee will continue to occur on a quarterly basis.

Classified as: overhead recovery fee, frais de récupération, FY2026, non-1A unrestricted funds, les fonds de type 1A, 700694, Central OH Unrestricted Funds
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Published on: 23 Apr 2025

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