Thought Leadership

2020

• New Privacy Bill is a Data Protection Reset for Canada

  

  Teresa Scassa | Policy Options | November 24, 2020

• Beware of the unintended consequences: why Canada’s internet streaming regulation plan could raise consumer costs and reduce competition

  

  Michael Geist | The Hill Times | November 19, 2020

• Ottawa should tax tech giants, not treat them like an ATM

  

  Michael Geist | The Globe and Mail | October 16, 2020

• It’s time to reboot Canada’s failed digital agenda

  

  Michael Geist | The Globe and Mail | September 17, 2020

• AI technologies — like police facial recognition — discriminate against people of colour

  

  Jane Bailey, Valerie Steeves and Jacquelyn Burkell | The Conversation | August 24, 2020

• Canada is unprepared for a pandemic election – and it could happen at any time

  

  Michael Pal | The Globe and Mail | July 13, 2020

• Companies are increasingly turning to social media to screen potential employees

  

  Elizabeth Dubois | The Conversation | July 8, 2020

• Heritage Minister raises possibility of link tax for internet companies

  

  Michael Geist | The Globe and Mail | June 21, 2020

• COVID-19: In the Shadow of Ebola, the Patent War to Come and a Forgotten Africa

  

  Chidi Oguamanam | ABS Canada | May 25, 2020

• One app per province? How Canada’s federalism complicates digital contact tracing

  

  Teresa Scassa | Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC | May 20, 2020