Munk School of Global Affairs University of Toronto TRINITY COLLEGE

We are pleased to announce that Marc Goodman has joined the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies (Canada Centre) and the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto as a Senior Fellow in Future Crime.

The Guelph Mercury newspaper reports that a Guelph-based tech firm called Netsweeper, which is known for making tools to control information abroad, is tightening communications at home. After giving several media interviews during its rapid rise in the burgeoning internet security sector, Netsweeper now not only refuses to speak to reporters, but also recently rejected a meeting request by Guelph MP Frank Valeriote.

On Wednesday, August 17, 2011, Dr. Rafal Rohozinski, Senior Scholar at the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab, will be speaking at the 2011 GlobalFest Human Rights Forum Breakfast in Calgary, Alberta. His talk is titled Ghost in the Machine - The Battle for the Future of Cyberspace.

On Friday, February 10, 2012, Canada Centre Visiting Research Fellow Karl Kathuria will discuss BBC's case studies as detailed in a report titled Casting a Wider Net: Delivering News on the Censored Internet.

Canada Centre Senior Scholar Rafal Rohozinski, Senior Fellow in Future Crime Marc Goodman, Visiting Fellow Rex Hughes and Visiting Research Fellow in International Broadcasting Karl Kathuria participated in a number of conferences and seminars.

A new report, entitled The Canadian Connection: An investigation of Syrian government and Hezbullah web hosting in Canada, continues Citizen Lab research into the intersection of the private sector, authoritarianism, and cyberspace regulation.

Munk-Gordon Arctic Security Program hosted a conference titled The Arctic Council: its place in the future of Arctic governance, which discussed the role of the Arctic Council and what Canada's priorities should be when it takes over as chair in 2013.

The Munk-Gordon Speaker Series at the University of Toronto hosted the Honourable Eva Aariak, Premier of Nunavut, who spoke on the topic of An Independent Nunavut in a Stronger Canada.

Munk School/Gordon Foundation release Re-thinking the Top of the World: The Arctic Council

The Canada Centre for Global Security Studies hosted a March 4-5 workshop focused on “China in the Western Hemisphere.”