Canada
Briefing paper
Generative AI in higher education: the product landscape
This paper has been prepared to enrich the descriptive data captured in the Ithaka S+R 'Product Tracker'. In the first section, the authors provide a typology of existing products and value propositions. In the second, they offer observations about what the product landscape suggests about the future of teaching, learning, and research practices, and speculations...
Discussion paper
Conservative criminal justice policy: new directions and alternatives
Aiming to fill a void in Canada's national conversation, this discussion paper lays out the key planks of a credible, principled, ‘small-C’ conservative approach to criminal justice. The paper is structured as a series of proposals addressing the stages of criminal justice administration: police investigation, pre-trial and bail, the trial and sentencing.
Policy report
Foreign interference online: where disinformation infringes on freedom of thought
This paper outlines how the Canadian government is currently exploring the creation of a foreign influence transparency registry, to try to reduce the potential for foreign state actors to deceptively engage in influence campaigns through Canadian intermediaries.
Policy report
Protecting freedom of thought and public health in a pandemic
In this policy brief, the authors write that pandemics provide fertile ground for the spread of misinformation, which disrupts the process of free opinion formation by drowning out accurate information and exploiting common cognitive biases, making incorrect information seem more compelling.
Working paper
Health practitioner regulation systems
This large-scale rapid review examines the diversity of regulatory principles, elements, and approaches to developing, implementing, and strengthening of health practitioner regulation systems