As聽Peel Regional Police warn of ongoing scams targeting concertgoers in the GTA, Professor Evan Light talks to Toronto Star about online security for fans trying to protect their Ticketmaster accounts, especially as Swift's six concerts in Toronto began. Light says the first way to protect yourself is to use complex and unique passwords on all your accounts. "," says Light.

Professor Jack L. Rozdilsky offers public safety tips for Taylor Swift鈥檚 Eras Tour to InsideHalton.com. "At the end of the day, no matter what the province of Ontario or City of Toronto or Rogers Centre does for safety, ," he says. "Being safe at a concert means tempering one's excitement with a dose of caution."

In an op-ed for The Conversation, Professor Emeritus Daniel Drache and a co-author write about what President Donald Trump's comeback means for his unique brand of nationalist authoritarianism. "Trump's victory shows just how weak and lacklustre the centre has become in comparison to surging extremism," writes the co-authors. "The Republican machine has grasped an essential truth: parties must redefine their centre of gravity with the shifting of the Overton window of political acceptability, which holds that ."

With polls showing that Americans are concerned about the lack of civility in politics following聽the 2024 election,聽Professor Raymond Mar speaks to Deseret News about how to demonstrate empathy, kindness and understanding with someone who votes differently. " to other peoples鈥� experiences and to believe they're valid," says Mar. "You don't have to deny your own experience to accept someone else's."

Professor Ann Marie Murnaghan speaks to My Bulkley Lakes Now about her research on the K鈥櫭玤it totem pole, and the Wet'suwet'en delegation that traveled from B.C. to Paris over 85 years after it was removed from their community and shipped to France.

The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says the International Criminal Court should investigate the disappearance of Indigenous children from Canadian residential schools. Speaking to CBC, Professor Heidi Matthews says the case could face admissibility hurdles as the ICC is meant to be a court of last resort, to be used when domestic jurisdictions are unwilling or unable to genuinely carry out their own investigations or prosecutions. , and there hasn't been an effort to shield any individuals from criminal responsibility, says Matthews.

Professor Elizabeth Clare speaks to Science News about Environmental DNA or eDNA. All living beings constantly shed bits of DNA, left behind from skin, scales, hair, urine, feces, pollen, and more. Clare says eDNA has 鈥渃hanged everything鈥� about how scientists study biodiversity and conservation. "It widens your time window of detection," says Clare. ", and footprints last longer than the animal or the plant."

The carbon footprint of hydrogen gas is not as small as proponents argue.聽Speaking to Hakai Magazine, Professor Mark Winfield weighs in on聽hydrogen gas becoming a fuel of choice. According to new research, hydrogen's climate friendliness depends on many factors, including where and how the hydrogen is produced. Winfield聽says the study reinforces the warning already being sounded by many scientists and environmentalists about green hydrogen. " and only bother with hydrogen if there is a good use case that makes sense," says Winfield.

Research out of 91亚色 has found that late natural menopause may be a risk factor for asthma, potentially due to prolonged estrogen exposure.聽", especially those with later onset of menopause," doctoral student Durmalouk Kesibi tells Healio.

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Ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Professor Emeritus Stephen L. Newman spoke to City News about American voting traditions, explaining why the election happens every four years on a Tuesday in November. 鈥� to avoid having the results in states that voted early influence the results in states that voted later,鈥� explains Newman. During the 19th century, much of the U.S. economy relied on farming and agricultural production. For that reason, it was decided that Election Day would be held in November, after harvest season ended and before winter. According to Newman, Election Day falls on a Tuesday because, at the time, most Americans went to church on Sundays and may have needed to travel long distances to reach their polling place. "Holding elections on Tuesday gave them time to get there," he says.

Professor Thomas Klassen speaks to Newmarket Today about the U.S. election results. Klassen聽says like many Canadians, the election result was not one he'd hoped for. "The good news is that Trump's been in office before, so we as Canadians, have some sense what to expect," says Klassen. While Trump has not made any promises to upend free trade agreements, there could be trade battles over tariffs, he says. He adds that a Trump presidency could benefit Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's chances at reelection, saying

Professor Yvonne Su writes about why the implication that students abuse Canada's asylum system does a disservice to both students and the integrity of the immigration processes for Policy Options magazine. "Let's be clear: Many students applying for asylum aren't doing so because it鈥檚 a backdoor into Canada. Many are being pushed into that position by institutions that have promised them a future and then left them to fend for themselves," writes Su. "By holding the right institutions accountable, 鈥� and that our asylum system continues to be a beacon of fairness and hope for those in need."

Many students applying for asylum aren't doing so because it鈥檚 a backdoor into Canada. Many are being pushed into that position by institutions that have promised them a future and then left them to fend for themselves.

Su writing for Policy Options

In a segment for CBS News, Professor Michael Barutciski weighs in on the illegal crossings happening at the Canada-U.S. border. In the 2024 fiscal year alone, roughly 19,000 people were arrested crossing illegally, a record-breaking number and the same amount as the last 17 years combined. And far more terror suspects are encountered on the northern U.S. border than the south. Border Patrol data states that 321 suspects on the terror watchlist were arrested on the northern border in fiscal year 2024, compared to 46 on the southern border. "It's actually quite striking that Canada's immigration minister has admitted that ," says Barutciski.

Professor Richard Leblanc talks to CBC about the potential need for a shake-up to the board of the Northwest Territories Power Corporation (NTPC) to modernize energy policy in the territory. Fresh eyes, especially independent ones, could better represent the public, and bring expertise along with change. Leblanc says having independent directors on the board could add industry expertise, while government officials would bring an understanding of government workings. "A hybrid model has ," he says.

Professors Hala Tamim, Heather Edgell and Michael Rotondi published a study that found women who experience menopause late have a 30 per cent greater risk of developing asthma when compared with women who have menopause early. The results are based on 10 years of follow up data from more than 14,000 women between ages 45 to 85, gathered using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

Generative AI is drastically changing how companies and individuals approach marketing. A KPMG survey of 872 Canadian organizations found that nearly 90 per cent believe gen AI is pivotal to gaining a competitive advantage. "There are huge cost-saving benefits; that's undeniable," Professor Markus Giesler tells Financial Post, but adds that despite excitement surrounding the abilities of AI, .

Professor Afshin Rezaei-Zare talks to Toronto Star about why solar storms could be catastrophic for society. In large solar storms, GPS outages, air travel disruptions, and even, in rare cases, blackouts are possible. "The impact could be huge," says Rezaei-Zare, "because ."

Professor Patricia Lakin-Thomas weighs in on the health impact that the end of daylight time and a return to standard time in the fall has on our biology. It better aligns our schedules to our bodies ", or what people around the world do today when they don't have access to electricity. They get up with the sun, stay up until after dark when they're tired and go to sleep," says Lakin-Thomas. Speaking to Toronto Star, Lakin-Thomas comments on the time change, and how it provides an opportunity to reflect on an even more important cycle: the circadian rhythm. She tells them if she could rearrange society, .

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Professor and Dean of AMPD Sarah Bay-Cheng, a former NCAA basketball player, weighs in on the new name for Toronto's PWHL team, the Toronto Sceptres, which a local fan says isn't very catchy. "In sports, there's . But if the team is good and the hockey is good, then over time that will define the name more than the name will define the hockey," Bay-Cheng tells Toronto Star. "The most important thing is that the players are having good games and the manager is putting a good team on the ice and there's fun and energy around."

In sports, there's a long history of team names that people didn't love at first. But if the team is good and the hockey is good, then over time that will define the name more than the name will define the hockey.

Bay-Cheng speaking to Toronto Star

After the Toronto Sceptres name and branding was revealed on Monday, Taylor Swift fans noticed the logo was eerily similar to a 'TS' emblem featured on the front of a cheerleader uniform sported by the pop star in her 2014 music video for the single "Shake It Off." Professor Vijay Setlur spoke to Toronto Star for an article about the similarities and how the coincidence could play out. "You can launch a legal action, but then how is it going to look to your fans?"聽asked Setlur. He said superstars such as Swift are more concerned about intellectual property theft related to their music. A legal case for trademark infringement would have to prove deception, and the Sceptres could claim fair use. " This might be something that's not even worth bothering. Plus, it's a women's hockey team and not a drug company or a political organization. It's a good thing, an entity that's respectful."

Professor Antulio Rosales weighs in on Venezuela's opposition running out of options for challenging President Nicolas Maduro's claim to have won reelection. Opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia fled in exile to Spain last weekend. Other oppositional figures have been arrested or are in hiding while Maduro insists he won and has 鈥斅燼t least publically 鈥� ruled out any kind of negotiation with the opposition. " and, to the contrary, it is digging in," says Rosales to the International Business Times.

Professor Emeritus Daniel Drache and co-author question whether authoritarian populism is finally being rejected by citizens around the world in an op-ed for The Conversation. " If enough citizens who believe in the values of democracy show up to cast their ballots, populist forces near and far could sooner or later get clobbered," they write.

Getting out the vote is always the key to defeating authoritarianism.

Drache and co-author for The Conversation

颁补苍补诲补鈥檚 federal labour board ordered Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPK) railways, along with over 9,000 other workers, back to work and into binding arbitration, but , writes Professor Bruce Campbell in his op-ed for The Conversation.

Air Canada's pilots are in a legal strike position as of Sept. 17, raising concerns about labour unrest in the country's air travel sector. In an op-ed for The Globe and Mail, Professor Steven Tufts writes about the airline, which has returned to profitability, facing contract renegotiations with both pilots and flight attendants, who are seeking significant wage increases after a decade-long freeze. "All of this is compounded by the fact that the government has recently flexed its muscle in the transportation sector to limit workers鈥� right to strike," writes Tufts, adding that and add to the challenge of maintaining stable labour relations in the sector.

In an op-ed for The Conversation, Professor Emeritus Joel Lexchin and co-authors address Africa's need for an estimated 10 million doses of the mpox vaccine. " when it comes to accessing vaccines, diagnostics and treatments. This is a story that has been repeated multiple times in the past few decades 鈥� with HIV/AIDS, Ebola and most recently COVID," they write. Maldistribution is not inevitable, they add, but it's also not a problem Africa can solve on its own: "A new set of global rules is also needed to ensure all countries work cooperatively to prevent, prepare for and respond to pandemics and to share vaccines and other needed medical products."

This weekend: Friends of the Muskoka Watershed (FOTMW) has partnered with Peerless (Sunset Cruises) to host Peer Under the Surface, a guided tour of Lake Rosseau. Leaving the Port Carling dock at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 15, passengers aboard the tour boat will make a net and cruise the Muskoka waterways until noon. 鈥淲e鈥檒l be going out with dip nets, and ," says Professor Norman Yan, founding chair of FOTMW and one of the scientists leading the cruise. Tickets are $64 and funds will go towards tackling local environmental issues.

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Professor Sean Hillier is prioritizing Indigenous voices in health research. The subject of a profile in University Affairs, Hillier's work spans Indigenous health policy, technology's impacts on Indigenous communities, and infectious diseases. 鈥� a United Nations initiative that takes an integrated approach to balancing the health of people, animals and the environment. "My great interest is thinking through Indigenous health and Indigenous health governance and policy," says Hillier. "I'm very interested in the impacts of tech and AI on Indigenous data governance, on Indigenous sovereignty, and on Indigenous colonization via new emerging technologies."

Professor Deborah McGregor led a presentation at the recent TechNations 2024 where she discussed a framework that's been developed for a First Nations-focused source water protection plan as current federal and provincial water governance policies do not adequately protect some First Nations, reports Anishinabek News. "For a lot of communities, water has been contaminated or deteriorated over time," says McGregor, whose research has focused on . "We're trying to develop a process that helps us recognize what we did for thousands of years and the challenges that are our realities right now and how do we work with that."

Reverend, refugee activist and professor emeritus, Michael Creal died Aug. 23 at the age of 97. A priest in the Anglican Church of Canada, Creal had received the Order of Canada in June in recognition of his . He worked at 91亚色 starting in the 1960s, as a professor and in positions including head of the division of humanities and founder of the Centre for Refugee Studies.

Petra Molnar, associate director of the Refugee Law Lab, speaks to Nahlah Ayed of CBC Radio's Ideas for part three of . At a time when more people are forcibly displaced than at any other point in recorded history, Ayed speaks with guests about where the rights to leave, return and seek refuge in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights came from, and what they could mean today. As a guest on the Legally Speaking podcast, Molnar discusses in the U.S., including its criminalization, A.I. discrimination鈥� and more.

Professor Laura Taylor talks to The Canadian Press about the history of guerrilla gardening. Taylor says the term was coined in the 1970s in Brooklyn. " where buildings had been taken down because they were unsafe, and then the vacant lot was just left," she says, adding that the plot "went from a place that was an eyesore to a place where people were growing vegetables and getting food from it."

Professor Duygu Biricik Gulseren comments on forced returns to the office and the rise of new tech leaving managers in a precarious position as stewards of employee wellbeing. A recent PwC survey shows 45 per cent of respondents have had to learn new skills or technologies in order to do their job, The Globe and Mail reports. The same percentage report their . "In the past, there would be time between learning and applying, and now many are doing both at the same time," says Gulseren. "There's more to learn, and also not enough time to learn because of the rate of change."

Professor Winny Shen weighs in on the quest for a better work-life balance being not just a Gen Z issue. Since the pandemic, it's become common for companies of all sizes to allow employees with desk jobs to work from home or remotely at least part of the time. "Workers are paying more attention to whether an employer offers flexible conditions when they're considering who they want to work for. And while there are some kinds of jobs where you have to be on site, many employers are realizing that for other jobs ," Shen tells The Globe and Mail, pointing to a study that found remote workers generally have better outcomes in the work they deliver than office-based colleagues.

Workers are paying more attention to whether an employer offers flexible conditions when they鈥檙e considering who they want to work for.

Shen speaking to The Globe and Mail

Professor Emeritus Craig Heron discusses on CBC Radio's Metro Morning with host David Common.

Professor Lyndsay Hayhurst and co-author write about "deeply entrenched inequities and challenges facing girls and women in sport, such as body confidence and support for athletes with small children" in an op-ed for The Conversation. Referencing a new initiative, Sport Your Period, that is breaking taboos by paying athletes to discuss their experiences with menstruation, they write about . "What鈥檚 needed is a more comprehensive approach to menstrual health education for coaches and athletes through the sport organizations that govern global, national and local sport systems," they write.

Professor Thomas Klassen and former political science student Matthew Cerilli (BA 鈥�24) discuss campaign ethics in an op-ed for The Conversation, referencing Former U.S. President Donald Trump amplifying a misogynist and offensive comment made about Vice President Kamala Harris on Truth Social. "This latest Trump smear takes place as in both Canada and the United States," they write.

CBC Books: Walking & Stealing by Professor Stephen Cain has been named one of 44 Canadian . Cain is the author of six full-length collections of poetry and a dozen chapbooks. Walking & Stealing is a threefold collection of poems about baseball, Toronto and immersing oneself in deep thoughts. Professor Christina Sharpe is celebrated in a . Sharpe's Ordinary Notes won the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Sharpe was also awarded the 2024 Windham-Campbell Prize for nonfiction. Her book "explores the complexities of Black life and loss through a series of 248 notes that intertwine past and present realities."

Reminder: A guided tour of Lake Rosseau is happening on Sunday, Sept. 15. Friends of the Muskoka Watershed (FOTMW) has partnered with Peerless (Sunset Cruises) to host Peer Under the Surface. Leaving the Port Carling dock at 10 a.m., passengers aboard the tour boat will make a net and cruise the Muskoka waterways until noon. 鈥淲e鈥檒l be going out with dip nets, and ," says Professor Norman Yan, founding chair of FOTMW and one of the scientists leading the cruise. Tickets are $64 and funds will go towards tackling local environmental issues.

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An upcoming byelection in Montr茅al will have the longest ballot in the history of Canadian federal elections. At least 91 candidates will be on the ballot Sept. 16 with 79 of them linked to a group protesting Canada's first-past-the-post voting system. Professor Dennis Pilon talks to CTV News. He says electoral reform advocates have been frustrated by the unwillingness of 颁补苍补诲补鈥檚 major political parties to change the country鈥檚 voting system. 鈥淲hat we鈥檙e seeing here is that 鈥� says Pilon.

In the behind-the-scenes push leading up to the nearly $58 million in provincial funding for a new kindergarten to Grade 12 Catholic school in Wasaga Beach, a developer owning most of the land where the school will be built hosted a $1,000-per-plate fundraiser for Stephen Lecce, Ontario's education minister at the time. Speaking to The Trillium, Professor Ian Stedman, who worked in the provincial integrity commissioner鈥檚 office from 2011 to 2014, says .

Sarah Bay-Cheng, a professor and dean of the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, weighs in on the open invitation to suggest names and branding for Toronto's WNBA team that is set to start play in less than two years. Bay-Cheng, who is also a former NCAA basketball player, tells the Toronto Star that team names in the WNBA carry a stronger social and cultural connection than their NBA counterparts, often reflecting a team's identity and place. " has some capacity to evolve, a sense of who we are and who we have been," she says.

An alleged decade-long secret romantic relationship between RBC's Chief Financial Officer Nadine Ahn and finance executive Ken Mason led to their firings, which are now being challenged in court. RBC is seeking to recover over $3 million from both executives for breaching the company鈥檚 code of conduct, while Ahn and Mason are challenging their terminations with wrongful dismissal claims. Professor Richard Leblanc weighs in on the significance of RBC鈥檚 approach to clawbacks, highlighting how the bank's actions 鈥� seeking to recover compensation based on a breach of conduct rather than financial restatements 鈥� demonstrate a rigorous adherence to ethical standards in executive management. "Banks are generally regarded as the best-governed corporations in all the country," Leblanc tells Fortune. ""

鈥淚n some cases, obesity is associated with serious health problems, but it should not be treated as a result of seeing ads on TV or on streetcars. Instead of drug ads ending with the message that patients should ask their doctor if the drug is right for them, ,鈥� writes Professor Emeritus Dr. Joel Lexchin, in an op-ed for the Toronto Star on the advertising of Ozempic.

[Obesity] should not be treated as a result of seeing ads on TV or on streetcars.

Lexchin writes in Toronto Star

Professor Hannah Johnston, who specializes in the digitalization of work, discusses biometric monitoring in workplaces on CBC Radio, particularly the hospitality sector. 鈥淥ne of the reasons that is that we have not yet even begun to imagine the potential abuses for these types of data,鈥� she says. 鈥淯ntil we have limits around how data can be collected, how it can be used, rights around disposal, rights around storage, this is information that we should be reluctant to hand over to anyone else.鈥�

"The study of protection of historic sites during disaster tells us that ," writes Professor Jack L. Rozdilsky in an op-ed for Canadian Architect about the fire at St. Anne's Anglican Church in Toronto's Little Portugal neighbourhood. "In St. Anne's Church, a collection of religious murals 鈥� including some by the Group of Seven 鈥� form part of Toronto鈥檚 cultural patrimony that has now been lost." Fundraising efforts are now underway to support rebuilding.

You鈥檙e invited to peer under the surface of Muskoka鈥檚 waterways on Sunday, Sept. 15. Friends of the Muskoka Watershed (FOTMW) has partnered with Peerless (Sunset Cruises) to host a guided tour of Lake Rosseau. Leaving the Port Carling dock at 10 a.m., passengers aboard the tour boat will make a net and cruise the freshwater body until noon. 鈥淲e鈥檒l be going out with dip nets, and ," says Professor Norman Yan, founding chair of FOTMW and one of the scientists leading the cruise. Tickets are $64 and funds will go towards tackling local environmental issues.

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In this , 64 countries will be heading to the polls. Among them is Venezuela, which will hold its presidential election on July 28. Venezuelans across the country will be voting in the election that will see President Nicol谩s Maduro seek another term.

However, Venezuelans abroad have . Only . This poses serious problems for the country鈥檚 electoral and democratic processes.

Venezuela has experienced the  in recent decades. Economic instability has seen millions leave the country. Figures indicate that close to  鈥� over one-quarter of the population 鈥� have left the country.

Given the high number of Venezuelans who live outside of the country, it is crucial that those in the diaspora are able to take part in the country鈥檚 electoral process. However, many face significant challenges when seeking to exercise their right to vote.

Legal and diplomatic barriers

Whether the election will be free and fair remains to be seen. Maduro has pledged to allow democracy to function. . Opposition politician Maria Corina Machado has been disqualified from running and the government has .

In a world where transnational movement is widespread, protecting international voter participation is essential. Most South American countries have enacted legislation allowing citizens abroad to participate in presidential elections.

, that allowed citizens abroad to use a valid identification card or passport to register and vote at a Venezuelan consulate or embassy. The 1998 election, which saw Hugo Chavez elected president, was the first time Venezuelans abroad could vote. In 2009, during Chavez鈥檚 third term,  that allows the National Election Council to determine, for each election, the processes for Venezuelans to vote from abroad.

Current legislation establishes that only individuals with legal residence or 鈥溾�� can vote abroad.

However, the term 鈥渓egal residence鈥� is not defined in the current legislation nor has it been defined by the National Election Council. This has resulted in different Venezuelan diplomatic missions using various interpretations. It has been used as a tactic to impede voter registration.

For example, millions of Venezuelans live legally in neighbouring Colombia. However,  because it .

Some diplomatic missions now require solely a valid passport to register and vote, something many Venezuelans abroad do not have. If their passport has expired, renewing it is often too costly and requires a trip to a distant embassy or even to Venezuela.

A lack of diplomatic missions is another major impediment. In the past decade, the government has severed diplomatic relations with various countries that host large numbers of Venezuelans.

Venezuela closed consulates  and  in 2019 (though it has since reopened some) and its embassy and consulates in .

The Venezuelan government typically argues . It closed its embassy in Ecuador (a country that ) in solidarity with Mexico after Ecuadorian authorities raided the Mexican embassy in April 2024.

Regardless of the reason, these closures deprive Venezuelans abroad of access to a voting location in their country of residence. They are also denied the ability to  required to register and vote.

For those seeking to vote, the remaining option is to return to Venezuela. But that can be costly, and for those vocally critical of the government, potentially dangerous.

Venezuelans pessimistic about the election

In June and July we spoke to Venezuelans in Brazil and Colombia who we interviewed for ongoing research into the humanitarian reception of vulnerable migrants in Brazil and Colombia.

Their comments on the election reflected both pessimism and hope for change. Blanca Montilla, President of Casa Venezuela, an NGO that supports Venezuelan migrants and refugees in Sao Paulo, said: 鈥淎lthough we are seeing some disruptions and persecution to the opposition candidate, many things that make us think this election is not free, we still have hope.鈥�

Venezuelans living abroad also expressed distrust in the process of voting from outside the country. Romulo Bordones said: 鈥淭hose who count votes in this election process are the same people from the government, so there is not much to say.鈥� Symone Eman told us voting abroad raises a lot of doubts about the legitimacy of your vote. He fears his vote might not be counted and worries about whether or not it will remain secret.

It is essential to address barriers that hinder diasporic communities from participating in elections back home. The Venezuelan experience illustrates how governments can too often suppress the rights of voters abroad. It highlights the critical need to enhance and protect voters鈥� rights for those outside their country.

Democracies must establish and follow consistent criteria for voter registration abroad, preserve and expand diplomatic missions in countries with large diasporas and strengthen voter trust by allowing international observers and independent auditing.

The International Organization for Migration, for example, is an agency that  of various countries. By learning from these experiences and implementing accessible trans-electoral policies, the democratic rights of all citizens can be protected, regardless of location.

By Assistant Professor Yvonne Su, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, 91亚色

This article is republished from .

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TORONTO, July 17, 2024 鈥� Has the uproar around mail-in voting in the United States trumped how Canadians view the practice here? Researchers at 91亚色 have found former U.S. president Donald Trump鈥檚 negative rhetoric around the practice of mail-in ballots as fraud prone and untrustworthy has had clear effect in this country.

鈥淚t is already a well-established fact that Trump has impacted voters鈥� view and behaviour in the U.S., but what was less known until now was whether that effect crossed the border into Canada,鈥� says Associate Professor , lead author of the paper. 鈥淲e wanted to know if holding populist, right-winged views helped determine the level of trust someone had in mail-in votes and what role political media exposure played.鈥�

The study, , found that those holding populist views across Canada, especially right-wing in nature, were more likely to have been influenced by rhetoric south of the border and to now distrust voting by mail.

Wu, 91亚色 Research Chair in Political Sociology of Health, along with Associate Professor Andrew Dawson, both with the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at 91亚色, analyzed data from the 2021 Canadian Election Study. It showed that the 鈥淭rump effect鈥� had infiltrated Canadian鈥檚 views of mail-in voting.

The researchers were curious about any potential impact given the last federal election this country in 2021 generated the highest number of mail-in votes of any other election since 1993, when mail-in voting by special ballot was expanded to every Canadian at home or abroad. In the U.S., the practice dates back to the Civil War, a time when soldiers were allowed to vote from the battlefield.

In 2019, Elections Canada received about 55,000 mail-in ballots, but that shot up by more than 10 times that amount in 2021, during the pandemic, to a recording setting around 700,000. In the U.S. during the 2020 presidential election, almost half of voters, some 43 per cent, mailed their ballots. That鈥檚 also the year, Trump and some other republicans began a campaign to discredit mail-in voting saying it could lead to fraud and a 鈥渞igged election鈥�.

鈥淧rior to that, mail-in voting wasn鈥檛 politicized,鈥� says Wu. 鈥淎lthough none of the political parties tried to delegitimize voting by mail in Canada, Canadians likely follow U.S. news more closely than other countries and are more prone to being influenced.鈥�

The study found a significant amplifying effect regardless of where Canadians got their news from, which affected their perceptions of the electoral system in this country and its legitimacy. The higher the level of news consumption, the more Canadians were divided in terms of how they see mail-in voting. Those who held right wing populist views and also followed news closely, show the least trust in voting by mail. The media amplification effect is less significant in French-speaking Quebec, indicating the impact of U.S. media outlets.

This despite the Canadian electoral system being less prone to partisan politics than in the U.S. as federal elections here are run by Elections Canada, a single, non-partisan electoral management body. Even so, suspicion south of the border can still create doubt around elections in this country.

鈥淓ven though there is almost no evidence to suggest mail-in ballots are fraudulent or lead to fraud, the mere suggestion is enough to shake people鈥檚 belief in the practice,鈥� says Wu.

鈥淚t鈥檚 not surprising that it received a lot of media attention worldwide, including in Canada. We found strong evidence of a 鈥楾rump effect鈥� here with a clear negative association between Trump鈥檚 views and a lack of trust in mail-in ballot voting. Perceptions of electoral integrity matter. Sowing the seeds of electoral mistrust through false claims can have real effects.鈥�

The researchers found a distrust in mail-in ballots was more apparent in Alberta than in the rest of Canada.

The research was published today in the peer-reviewed Oxford University Press journal Public Opinion Quarterly.

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TORONTO, March 14, 2016 鈥� 91亚色 experts are available to comment on the candidates, primaries and issues in the run up to the 2016 United States presidential election on Nov. 8.

• Political science Professor can talk about the 2016 U.S. election, primaries, candidates, American politics and ideology, as well as freedom of expression.
• Political science Professor Roddy Loeppky can speak about American politics, international and comparative political economy, the US election and primaries. He is currently teaching a course on politics, society and democracy in the US.
• Political science Professor David Leyton-Brown can talk about U.S. foreign policy, Canadian-American relations, Canadian-American trade and defence relations, US election, primaries, candidates, parties, issues and election process.
• Political science Professor Robert E. Latham can speak to the populist elements in play in the election and what that means for the main candidates. He is currently working on a book on the connections between the right and the left, especially in the US, in relation especially to the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.

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