In this episode, Futureproofing Canada host Jennifer Ditchburn speaks with Timothy Caulfield, one of North America’s leading voices on misinformation and the author of The Certainty Illusion: What You Don’t Know and Why It Matters. Caulfield unpacks how today’s chaotic information environment, from wellness products to fake online reviews, is shaping our beliefs, eroding trust, and influencing public policy. Drawing on decades of research, he explains why misinformation spreads so easily, how political identity fuels distorted beliefs, and what Canada can do to strengthen critical thinking, media literacy, and evidence-informed policymaking.
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In this episode, Futureproofing Canada host Jennifer Ditchburn speaks with Timothy Caulfield, one of North America’s leading voices on misinformation and the author of The Certainty Illusion: What You Don’t Know and Why It Matters. Caulfield unpacks how today’s chaotic information environment, from wellness products to fake online reviews, is shaping our beliefs, eroding trust, and influencing public policy. Drawing on decades of research, he explains why misinformation spreads so easily, how political identity fuels distorted beliefs, and what Canada can do to strengthen critical thinking, media literacy, and evidence-informed policymaking.
Resilience and Challenges of the Community Housing Sector - Demystifying Community Housing 04
Futureproofing Canada
59 minutes 55 seconds
1 year ago
Resilience and Challenges of the Community Housing Sector - Demystifying Community Housing 04
In this episode of Demystifying Community Housing, we hear from Alex Hemingway, Christina Maes Nino and Steve Pomeroy, on the various challenges facing the community housing sector and how to bolster its resilience.
Additional resources:
• Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative (CHEC), a network of more than 30 academics and more than 50 practice partners representing policymakers, housing providers and equity-seeking groups, to accelerate evidence-based solutions that advance Canada’s National Housing Strategy
• Business Transformation: Promising Practices for Social and Affordable Housing in Canada. 2015. Published by Housing Partnership Canada.
• The Community Housing Transformation Centre, a network of organizations that represent and serve the needs of Canada’s community housing sector. The centre provides access to tools, financial resources and best practices to support the growth, transformation and resilience of community housing.
Funding:
This podcast series receives funding from the Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnership Grant for The Community Housing project [430-2021-00887] and the Insight Development Grant for the Housing Inequality project [890-2018-1013].
Futureproofing Canada
In this episode, Futureproofing Canada host Jennifer Ditchburn speaks with Timothy Caulfield, one of North America’s leading voices on misinformation and the author of The Certainty Illusion: What You Don’t Know and Why It Matters. Caulfield unpacks how today’s chaotic information environment, from wellness products to fake online reviews, is shaping our beliefs, eroding trust, and influencing public policy. Drawing on decades of research, he explains why misinformation spreads so easily, how political identity fuels distorted beliefs, and what Canada can do to strengthen critical thinking, media literacy, and evidence-informed policymaking.
