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York U expert available to speak to media on the rise of the tech oligarchs and power they exert in U.S., Canada and beyond

Amazon, Apple, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and newer additions like Nvidia, Tesla — these make up the “magnificent seven” — tech companies who control more than 35 per cent of the S&P 500 on the U.S. stock market and therefore a large chunk of the global economy, says Faculty of Science Professor Kean Birch, also director of York’s Institute of Technoscience and Society. Add control of cloud computing, data collection and subsequent investments in generative AI, and, he says, the power these U.S.-based companies wield cannot be underestimated. 

York experts available to speak on tariffs and trade

York University experts offer insights on the trade war, from the history of negotiations to the evolution of supply chains, the effects of tariffs on consumer behaviour and more.

How Canada and the country’s premiers must respond to Trump’s trade and energy policies

Canada’s trade and economic policies have been thrown into a state of chaos in the weeks following United States President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to impose 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican exports to the U.S. The federal government is now suffering an internal crisis with the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance […]

York experts comment on Ticketmaster scams and public safety related to the Eras Tour, authoritarianism and division in the U.S., the K’ëgit totem pole and more

York experts discuss Ticketmaster scams and public safety related to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, authoritarianism and division York experts comment on Ticketmater scams and public safety related to the Eras Tour, authoritarianism and division following the U.S. election, a delegation visiting the K’ëgit totem pole, and more.

Donald Trump’s fear-mongering about migrant crime is fuelling hate in Canada and the world

Beyond the Harris-Trump debate: How politicians use anti-immigrant rhetoric to mask systemic failures

Presidential debates in the United States are often little more than a platform for candidates to trade insults and repeat claims, true and false, about various political issues. The debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump was no exception. During the debate, Trump repeated multiple debunked claims about migrant crime. Namely, that criminality in the U.S. was […]

Canada trumped by Trump’s negative rhetoric around mail-in voting

Has the uproar around mail-in voting in the United States trumped how Canadians view the practice here? Researchers at York University have found former U.S. president Donald Trump’s negative rhetoric around the practice of mail-in ballots as fraud prone and untrustworthy has had clear effect in this country.