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Healthcare workers watch from a window as demonstrators gather outside Toronto General Hospital, on Sept. 13, 2021, to protest against COVID-19 vaccines, COVID-19 vaccine passports and COVID-19 related restrictions. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

Online harassment is silencing Canada’s health experts — institutions need to do more to protect them

Heidi J. S. Tworek, University of British Columbia; Chris Tenove, University of British Columbia, and Netheena Neena Mathews, University of British Columbia

If Canada wants to get ahead of the next health crisis, it needs to shield its scientists and researchers from online abuse.
Justice Marie-Josee Hogue, head of the Foreign Interference Commission, speaks after releasing the inquiry’s final report in Ottawa in January 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Foreign interference threats in Canada’s federal election are both old and new

Chris Tenove, University of British Columbia and Heidi J. S. Tworek, University of British Columbia

Canadians should be alert to foreign interference in the federal election, but the most important thing to do is cast a ballot based on their own well-informed priorities, worries and aspirations.
Three women displaced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine check their mobile phones at a refugee centre in Hungary. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

The Russian invasion shows how digital technologies have become involved in all aspects of war

Katharina Niemeyer, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM); Dominique Trudel, Audencia; Heidi J. S. Tworek, University of British Columbia; Maria Silina, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and Svitlana Matviyenko, Simon Fraser University

Internet infrastructure disruption, targeted cyberattacks and the manipulation of disinformation during the Russian invasion of Ukraine all show that warfare now includes cyberwar strategies.
A woman enters Maple High School in Vaughan, Ont., to cast her vote in the Canadian federal election in October 2015. Canada has a lot to learn from Europe in preventing the digital manipulation of voters. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Peter Power

What Europe can teach Canada about protecting democracy

Chris Tenove, University of British Columbia and Heidi J. S. Tworek, University of British Columbia

Several critical Canadian elections are looming. Here’s what Canada can learn from Europe on how to prevent the digital manipulation of voters.
Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s foreign affairs minister, is welcomed by German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel prior to a meeting of the G20 Foreign Ministers in Bonn, Germany in February 2017. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Is Germany’s foreign minister having a Chrystia Freeland moment?

Heidi J. S. Tworek, University of British Columbia

Germany’s foreign minister could take a page from Chrystia Freeland’s playbook on how his country should manage foreign policy in the Donald Trump era.

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