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This is the first report from the Digital Democracy Project, a partnership between the Public Policy Forum and the Max Bell School of Public Policy at 91社区. The goal of this report is to provide an initial snapshot of the Canadian political media ecosystem leading up to this fall鈥檚 federal election.

This is the second report in the series of the Digital Democracy Project鈥檚 Research Memos that are mapping the media ecosystem in the run-up to Canada鈥檚 October 2019 federal election. It focuses on Canadian鈥檚 perceptions of what is shaping up to be a key election issue: the environment, and especially climate change.

This is the third of a series of Digital Democracy Project聽Research Memos that map the media ecosystem in the run-up to Canada's October 2019 federal election. It looks at whether Canadian's are polarized and how that relate to the social media environment.

This聽Memo聽that examines Canadians' opinions on immigration and their populist and nativist tendencies.

This report takes a closer look at the effectiveness of fact-checking the Trudeau blackface controversy on social media.

The DDP partnered with the Online Political Transparency Project to analyse the Facebook advertising landscape during the federal election campaign.

The final DDP election-period report finds that Canadians with partisan interests are more politically active, and less likely to engage with news that doesn鈥檛 support their worldview. This is a potential source of vulnerability for the information environment.

Researchers, policy-makers and the public at large are paying more attention to the threats that disinformation and other forms of online media manipulation pose to democratic institutions and political life.