Canada's cost of living increased 4.8% in December, the fastest rate since 1991 | CBC News
January 19, 2022 |聽Director Chris Ragan discusses supply chain disruptions and Canada's inflation rate rising to a 30-year high on CBC News. "There's a lot of pent-up demand," Chris notes, referring to businesses and restaurants being closed over the pandemic, and many consumers not having any place to spend their income.
2022 is turning out to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year for Biden | The Globe and Mail
January 18, 2022 | After last week's defeats, U.S. President Joe Biden has been transformed from聽Battling Joe Biden into the Embattled Joe Biden, David Shribman writes for聽The Globe and Mail.聽"The new year brought forth a new Biden - a fiery, determined, passionate President substituting for the dewyeyed, sentimental chief executive.
Biden vows to end filibuster ahead of voting rights bills 鈥榯hat will mark a turning point鈥� in U.S. history | The Globe and Mail
January 12, 2022 | Joe Biden isn't the first president to push for expanded voting rights, David Shribman comments in his article for聽The Globe and Mail.
A no-vax tax | CBC's Radio Noon Quebec with Shawn Apel
January 12, 2022聽| Joining the CBC's聽Radio Noon Quebec with Shawn Apel, Professor Pearl Eliadis cautions that it's premature to discuss the legality of the "no-vax tax" or health contribution the Quebec government is proposing on unvaccinated Quebecers, as the legislation has not been made publicly available yet.
"We don't know enough yet to know if it's legal, but I do think it's bad public policy," she comments.
Quebec's 'anti-vax tax' difficult to enforce, experts say | Montreal Gazette
January 12, 2022 | After the Quebec government announced unvaccinated Quebecers would have to pay a "health contribution," Professor Pearl Eliadis weighs in on the legality and enforcement of such a proposition.
鈥淎re we really going to go and find 800,000 people, (some of whom) are low-income earners or have disabilities?鈥� she asked. 鈥淲hat are we going to do, seize their couch (if they can鈥檛 afford to pay)?鈥�
There is a word for a shameless age | The Line
January 10, 2022 | Andrew Potter writes for聽The Line聽that we're living in a shameless age. "More than almost anyone else in our society it is politicians who feel the weight of mass opinion, the pride that comes with public esteem, or the shame that follows public disgrace."
Read the article here.
Do We Still Believe in a Better Tomorrow? | The Agenda
January 10, 2022 | It's true, albeit聽clich茅d,聽to say that we're living through "unprecedented times." With all the bad news out there, do we still believe in a better tomorrow? Max Bell School professor Andrew Potter, author of the recently published book聽"On Decline: Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever," weighs in.
Want S.F. to achieve net-zero carbon emissions? Don鈥檛 forget to green the health care industry | San Francisco Chronicle
January 10, 2022 | "Nearly 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions can be traced to health care activities in developed countries," writes MPP alumna Henna Hundal. Read her full argument for the crucial聽importance of including the healthcare sector in decarbonization efforts.聽
'Hassle' for tourists: Letter from June 2021 shows P.E.I. business group seeking relaxed COVID controls | CBC
January 5, 2022 | Professor Pearl Eliadis was interviewed for this public health article about聽COVID-19 pandemic restrictions for Prince Edward Island and their impact on businesses and tourism.
Professor Eliadis聽said something the pandemic has shown is that public health and economic interests aren't in competition 鈥� they are one and the same.
23 charts to watch on inflation and the economy in 2022 | Maclean's
December 21, 2021 |聽In Maclean's "Chart Week 2022" predictions roundup, Chris Ragan answers the question: "When will Canadian inflation return to target?"
Read the article.
La d茅mocratie n鈥檈st plus contagieuse | La Presse
January 2, 2022 |聽What do China and Qatar have in common? They will be hosting two main sporting events in 2022, and have strict聽authoritarian regimes,聽Jennifer Welsh聽explores in this co-written article.
Read the article.
In a deeply divided U.S., Americans struggle over how to commemorate Jan. 6 | The Globe and Mail
January 4, 2022 | In a special to聽The Globe and Mail, David Shribman聽discusses the furious debates Americans are having as the one-year anniversary of the聽siege at the Capitol arrives.
Burning Questions: Is Ottawa finally about to get serious about housing bubbles? | Regina Leader-Post
December 24, 2021 | After Director Christopher Ragan
Pearl Eliadis on Bill 96 | The Telegraph
December 28, 2021 | Pearl Eliadis commented聽that this legislation is the latest in a years-long push to effectively authorise "blatant discrimination against religious minorities in Quebec".
Eliadis said that while it was important to have protections in place for the French language, with Bill 96, "Quebec is starting to drift off into territory where they're really prepared to take pretty much any measures, sometimes outside the law ... to achieve that goal."
Taylor Owen to speak in University of Toronto's SRI Seminar Series
Beaverbrook Chair in Media, Ethics and Communications and director of The Center for Media, Technology and Democracy Taylor Owen will join University of Toronto's Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society for their SRI Seminar Series, which features emerging scholars at the intersection of technology and society, on February 9. Registration is free and available here.
