New Episode!🎙🚨 In this week’s episode, Elizabeth (not Liz) Dubois talks to Mike Pal about election integrity and security in 2024. 🎧Listen here: polcommtech.com/post/election-…

A quiet winter day on the Hill

🚨 DEADLINE EXTENSION: The NEW deadline for the 2025 ICON•S Annual Conference Call for Abstracts is now January 31st! Learn more and submit here: icon-society.org/icon-s-annual-… #iconsbrasilia

Please join us in Sydney! The workshop is about how to navigate various aspects of academia and is also about how to develop academic citizenship. I have been involved in past two editions and I cannot recommend this enough!

Two weeks left to submit abstracts to the 2nd International Forum on Asian Laws to be held in Oxford. law.ox.ac.uk/content/news/2…

Are today’s courts bastions of principle in a turbulent world, or staffed by unelected philosopher kings out of touch with the concerns of ordinary citizens? That’s the theme of this series: I’m looking forward to diving in and hope you can join us. administrativelawmatters.com/blog/2024/08/2…

Big legal news: The Supreme Court will announce on Thursday whether it will hear the Quebec notwithstanding clause case

Today at 9:45 am

Today, the Supreme Court decided the following leave application. decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/news/e…

Supreme Court will hear the QC secularism case which involves the notwithstanding clause

🇧🇷 One week left to register for the next ICON•S Annual Conference, to be held in Brasília on July 28-30, 2025. 🤩 I spoke with the three conference co-directors about their exciting plans for us: youtube.com/watch?v=hyDr81… Join us! Details here: icon-society.org/call-for-submi…

Today, we released a 2025 update to our Cyber Threats to Canada’s Democratic Process report, focusing on artificial intelligence-enabled cyber threats: cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/cy… Read the highlights: canada.ca/en/communicati… Key findings ⬇️

A decision has been issued with regard to a challenge to the Prime Minister’s decision to advise the Governor General to prorogue Parliament. News Bulletin: app.cyberimpact.com/newsletter-vie…~~

The Leaders’ Debates Commission just rescinded its invitation to the Green Party to take part in the French and English debates. 1/4 debates-debats.ca/news/2025/deci…

Huge! According to the preliminary figures, 7.3 million electors voted at the advance polls in this general election. This is a 25% increase from the 5.8 million electors who voted in advance in the 2021 general election. elections.ca/content.aspx?s…

Elections Canada announces a review of the special ballot procedure

Conservatives hold onto Windsor riding by four votes after recount ctvnews.ca/politics/artic…

OPAL is organizing the 2nd International Forum on Asian Laws: Innovation of Laws in Asia, on 19 - 20 June 2025, at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, with over 70 speakers from around the world. The Programme is here. law.ox.ac.uk/content/event/…

Justice Garrett Handrigan’s report, dated Monday, says “maybe as many as half” of the disputed ballots in the Terra Nova-The Peninsulas riding were marked in the rectangular box containing the candidates’ name. ctvnews.ca/politics/artic…

The 2025 Global Electoral Integrity Report is now out! This year we focus in on those countries which saw rises and declines in electoral integrity. Read here: static1.squarespace.com/static/58533f3… Join the discussions at our free, online conference next week: electoralintegrityproject.com/ieip2025