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Gen(Z)AI Presents Policy Recommendations for AI and Online Harms Governance in Canada
April 30, 2026 - When we set out to design Gen(Z)AI: Canada’s Youth Assembly on Artificial Intelligence, we were animated by an urgent conviction: that young people, among the most exposed to and affected by AI systems, should not merely be subjects of this technology, but architects of its governance. What followed – across seven months, four cities, one hundred in-person participants, and thousands of virtually engaged young Canadians – exceeded our initial ambitions.
Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, joins McGill’s Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy
Haugen will support the Centre’s research and public engagement on online safety policy, youth digital rights, and data transparency.
Photo by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
How To Fix Canada’s Proposed Artificial Intelligence Act (Tech Policy Press)
Sonja Solomun & Christelle Tessono
AI Oversight, Accountability and Protecting Human Rights: Comments on Canada’s Proposed Artificial Intelligence and Data Act
This report is a collaboration of interdisciplinary researchers from the Cybersecure Policy Exchange at Toronto Metropolitan University, McGill University’s Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, and the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University.
Defining the Lines with iMPACTS: A Multi-Sectored Partnership Policy Model to Rehumanize Children’s Online Communication (“iMPACTS Policy Model”)
Shaheen Shariff & Farah Roxanne Stonebanks
“How to protect children from Big Tech's harms” (National Post)
Taylor Owen & Sonja Solomun
Submission for the Federal Government’s 2021 Proposed Approach to Address Harmful Content Online
Sonja Solomun & Taylor Owen