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What is and what isn’t censorship? It’s hard for me to believe this discussion is even necessary at this particular moment in history. 

OTTAWA /  — The federal department of finance, headed by minister Bill Morneau, is the 2018 recipient of the Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy in the federal category.

The Centre for Free Expression is pleased to announce that Renu Mandhane, Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission is joining the CFE advisory board. Prior to her appointment as chief commissioner in October 2015, Ms. Mandhane was Executive Director of the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. She has an LL.M in international human rights law from New York University. She is a member of the Canada Committee of Human Rights Watch.

Toronto: Today the Centre for Free Expression published Jon Thompson’s, “The Poverty of Economism: Disinformation and the Misuse of Social Science.” Thompson argues that a major source of disinformation worldwide is based on use and misuse of the social science of economics. Read full paper.

By Milan Gokhale October 27, 2018 - The city of Toronto is one year into the private sector experiment known as Sidewalk Toronto, a joint partnership between Waterfront Toronto — the economic development agency equally funded by governments in Toronto, Ontario and Canada — and Sidewalk Labs — the private company funded by Google. This real estate-tech partnership, which was announced a year ago as a tech-first neighbourhood in Toronto, has been a nightmare of conflated interests, conflicting priorities and confusing rhetoric.

By Jon Thompson Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Brunswick