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Digital Democracy Project: Research memo #3 - Polarization and its Discontents
This is the third report from the Digital Democracy Project, a partnership between the Public Policy Forum and the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University. This report explores the level of polarization in Canada across different media platforms.
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Digital Democracy Project: Research memo #4 - Talking Past Each Other on Immigration
This is the fourth report from the Digital Democracy Project, a partnership between the Public Policy Forum and the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University. This report explores how Canadians perceive immigration and which media sources they obtain their information on immigration from.
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Digital Democracy Project: Research memo #2 - climate change
This is the second report from the Digital Democracy Project, a partnership between the Public Policy Forum and the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University. The project uses data from both public opinion polling and online media analysis to examine users policy knowledge and opinions on climate change.
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Digital Democracy Project: Research memo #1 - Media, knowledge and misinformation
This is the first report from the Digital Democracy Project, a partnership between the Public Policy Forum and the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University. The goal of this report is to provide an initial snapshot of the Canadian political media ecosystem leading up to the federal election in October.
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Automation, AI and anxiety: policy preferred, populism possible
Who is fearful of automation and what do they want politicians to do about it? This paper finds a correlation between Canadians’ fear of job losses from automation and populist and nativist views—but also that Canadians favour traditional government policy approaches to job disruption, such as retraining, more than radical measures such as reducing immigration.