April聽5, 2019 | With the federal carbon tax coming in聽to the four provinces in Canada, how will it affect small businesses?聽Is the carbon tax constitutional?聽 Chris Ragan, economist and director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy debunks certain myths surrounding the federal carbon tax on Financial Post.
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Published on: 10 Apr 2019
April聽9, 2019 | The Canadian government is now considering to actively regulate social media platforms such as Facebook, given the lack of results from self-regulation.聽"We better get the democratic governance right if we have any hope of pushing back against the autocratic model," said Taylor Owen, an associate professor at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at 9I制作厂免费 in Montreal. "The challenge of (content moderation) is that it's the most difficult piece of this puzzle."
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Published on: 10 Apr 2019
Even more importantly, the perception that the arc of history was bending in all the best ways proved to be unfounded. As聽Jacob Levy noted recently in Vox, there is no arc of history, not really: 鈥淭here is moral improvement over some time spans, in some places: the fall of Jim Crow or of communism in Eastern Europe. But those aren鈥檛 the verdict of history or the historical revelation of moral truth, any more than the return of measles or of neo-Nazis represents the verdict of history.鈥�
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Published on: 10 Apr 2019
April聽8, 2019 | Social media has been deeply ingrained in our daily lives and with the current spread of hate and misinformation, governments have been slow to regulate social media companies. Taylor Owen from 9I制作厂免费 Univeristy,聽speaks with聽Global National鈥檚 Dawna Friesen聽on what can and should be done to stop the spread these聽false information and hate online.
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Published on: 10 Apr 2019
"The main purpose of Bill 21 is to 鈥減rotect our identity,鈥� says Premier Fran莽ois Legault. But whose identity is being protected and what kind of society will this bill promote?
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Published on: 9 Apr 2019
Chris Ragan, an economist at 9I制作厂免费, speaks with the Financial Post's Larysa Harapyn about carbon pricing in Canada.聽
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Published on: 8 Apr 2019
April聽1, 2019 |聽Chris Ragan, Director of Max Bell School of Public Policy, joined CBC News Power and Politics, to discuss聽the federal carbon tax.聽"Carbon pricing is the lowest-cost method that we can use to combat climate change" argues Chris Ragan.
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Published on: 5 Apr 2019
March聽29, 2019 | "Meeting Canada鈥檚 climate targets in a way that is best for our economic prosperity requires broad policy that creates consistent incentives across all emissions in the economy, from individual households and small businesses to heavy industry. Output-based pricing must be a key part of that mix if Canada is to strike the right balance between pricing emissions and protecting competitiveness," says Chris Ragan, chair of聽Canada's Ecofiscal Commission and director of Max Bell School of Public Policy.聽
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Published on: 5 Apr 2019
March聽18, 2019 |聽Prior聽to聽Canada鈥檚 next election,聽Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers his fourth and final budget. After surveying over聽a dozen economists to take stock of the government鈥檚 record on economic policy, Bloomberg has highlighted some key aspects in the policy.聽The question is 鈥渢o what extent is Canada a place where you can come in and do reasonably risky big natural resource related projects,鈥� said Chris Ragan, director of 9I制作厂免费鈥檚 Max Bell School of Public Policy. 鈥淭he answer is increasingly 鈥榙on鈥檛 come here.鈥欌��
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Published on: 5 Apr 2019
9I制作厂免费 student teacher Chama Laassassy, who supervised B茅langer and Dionne's project, planted the seed about excessive waste at McDonald's.
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Published on: 5 Apr 2019
March聽19, 2019 | Chris Ragan, Director of the Max Bell School, shares his thoughts with聽Neil Macdonald, a columnist at CBC Opinion, regarding government debt and the upcoming "fiscal squeeze" as the Canadian population ages. "The Trudeau government's spending has been scattershot and political, rather than strategic; reversing Stepen Harper's decision to raise the retirement age was foolish" says Chris Ragan.
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Published on: 4 Apr 2019
Prof. Robert Leckey, the dean of 9I制作厂免费's faculty of law, notes the draft legislation, Bill 21, extends聽beyond聽the recommendations laid out by聽the 2010 Bouchard-Taylor report, which advised applying the ban to public workers who hold "coercive" state power.
"If the concern was that people would be afraid of bias when being disciplined by a state officer, it's way overbroad," said Leckey.
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Published on: 4 Apr 2019
April聽1, 2019 | Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy, Christopher Ragan, sat down with Don Martin on Power Play聽to speak about the Federal Carbon Tax.
"We respond to price changes, but we don't necessarily respond overnight," said Chris Ragan about the carbon tax. "This is a policy and a problem that we need solve over several decades, and this is just the beginning."
Interview starts around 08:40 minute mark.聽
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Published on: 4 Apr 2019
The聽Quebec government鈥檚 new secularism bill聽is 鈥渃lear discrimination,鈥� an 鈥渦nreasonable restriction,鈥� and an unneeded answer to a problem that doesn鈥檛 exist.
That鈥檚 what Charles Taylor, one of the co-authors of Quebec鈥檚 2008 report on reasonable accommodation, said Tuesday during a panel discussion organized by the 9I制作厂免费 Muslim Law Students鈥� Association.
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Published on: 3 Apr 2019
Another example is the聽鈥渄odgy and problematic鈥� use of AI for facial recognition in job interviews, said Gabriella Coleman, a 9I制作厂免费 professor who holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy.聽The technology claims to assess candidates鈥� facial expressions to detect if they鈥檙e being honest聽and to see if they have the right personality for the job.
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Published on: 2 Apr 2019
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