Platforms for Harm

How can we moderate harmful content without compromising free speech? Five experts — including Canadian Minister of Infrastructure and Communities Catherine McKenna, Taylor Owen and Heidi Tworek — join a virtual panel to discuss the challenges of platform governance.

Businesses, researchers, universities and governments must take extraordinary actions to ensure that intellectual property does not get in the way of helping people through the pandemic. In this op-ed, Karima Bawa and Myra J. Tawfik call on Canadian policy makers to facilitate collaborative development and access to essential technologies.

Over the last several decades, we have seen the rise of multinational corporations. To govern these economic powerhouses — and to ensure they comply with widely recognized human rights, labour and environmental standards — domestic and international law must be strengthened. Corporate Citizen's editor, Oonagh Fitzgerald, explains. 

Sep. 29 – 1:30 p.m. EDT (UTC–04:00): CIGI and the Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada have convened an expert panel of renowned international think tank leaders to discuss the public policy challenges brought on by the outbreak of COVID-19 and the fundamental need to build global solidarity. This event is by invitation only.

Sep. 30 – 12:00 p.m. EDT (UTC–04:00): Despite the disruption and cost of the pandemic, an opportunity exists for Canada and the world to emerge stronger and more resilient from the crisis. In this panel discussion, moderated by Bessma Momani, experts will examine the policy responses needed for sustainable, equitable and transformative recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Panellists include Goldy Hyder, Rohinton P. Medhora, Nicolas Moyer and Jennifer Welsh.

Oct. 6 – 8:30 a.m. EDT (UTC–04:00): The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program and CIGI are partnering with the United Nations to commemorate its seventy-fifth anniversary by convening a virtual global gathering of think tanks, policy makers and intergovernmental organizations. Under-Secretary-General Fabrizio Hochschild-Drummond, who acts as special adviser to the Secretary-General on the commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations, will join this important meeting.