Democracy
Alex Himelfarb, Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada’s Challenge (James Lorimer & Co., 2024)
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Penguin, 1986)
David Robson, “The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world,” BBC, May 13, 2019.
Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Penguin Random House, 2017)
Timothy Snyder, On Freedom (Crown, 2024)
Astra Taylor, Democracy May Not Exist But We'll Miss it When It's Gone (Verso, 2019)
Artificial Intelligence
Kate Crawford, Atlas Of Ai: Power, Politics, And The Planetary Costs Of Artificial Intelligence (Yale University Press, 2022.
Wendy H. Wong, We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age(Penguin, 2023)
What Will Police Use of AI Mean for Justice in Canada? Panelists: Dubi Kanengisser, Tom Linder, Kate Robertson. Moderator: Brenda McPhail. Centre for Free Expression, May 8, 2024.
Can Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated? Panelists: Fenwick McKelvey, Christelle Tessono, Anna Jahn. Moderator: Brenda McPhail. Centre for Free Expression, December 3, 2023.
What would governing AI democratically in Canada look like? Bianca Wylie in conversation with Andrew Clement. Centre for Free Expression, November 7, 2023.
In the Golden Age of Surveillance, Can Privacy Laws Save Us? January 26, 2022.
Governing Big Tech in Canada, Taylor Owen in Conversation with Andrew Clement, Centre for Free Expression, November 2, 2021.
Media and Press Freedom
Lisa Taylor and Cara-Marie O'Hagan (eds.), The Unfulfilled Promise of Press Freedom in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2017)
The Shattered Mirror: News, Democracy and Trust in the Digital Age (Public Policy Forum, 2017.
Worlds of Journalism: WJS 2022–2024: Mapping journalism’s hostile environment
Can editorial standards be applied fairly in highly polarized situations? The case of Israel and Gaza, Panelists: Samira Mohyeddin, Shree Paradkar, Ivor Shapiro. Moderator: Sakeina Syed Centre for Free Expression, January 14, 2025.
Colette Brin and Sébastien Charlton, "Report on Canada," Reuters Digital News Report 2024, June 17, 2024
Social Change
Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart (Concord Theatricals, 1985)