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Ian Munroe

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As seen in: CBC News, Nature, Yahoo Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), CBAP-FM (Shelburne, NS), CBC Nova Scotia, Al Jazeera English, The Conversation, VICE, The Japan Times, Your Morning and
Digital journalist with CBC News. Previous stints at newspapers, magazines and broadcasting companies in Halifax, Ottawa, Tokyo and Dubai.

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I've worked at newspapers, magazines and public broadcasters in Canada, the United Arab Emirates and Japan, where I also filed stories as a freelancer for a range of domestic and foreign publications. I hold a master's degree in political science from the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and a bachelor's from the Ryerson School of Journalism.

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'Q Day' Is Coming: Is the World Prepared?

'Q Day' Is Coming: Is the World Prepared?

How should we respond? And how will that response shape a potentially transformative technology at a pivotal …

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Canada at War: How Two Decades of Conflict Have Changed a Country

Canada at War: How Two Decades of Conflict Have Changed a Country

First there was Afghanistan, then Libya, then Iraq, where it now looks like we'll have troops until at least …

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Dusting off outdated patterns

Dusting off outdated patterns

Japan’s government wants to make the country more “innovation friendly” and it’s urging universities to help …

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Is Japan leaving the Rohingya out in the cold?

Is Japan leaving the Rohingya out in the cold?

As violence flares around the world's largest group of stateless people in Myanmar, an exile is pleading with…

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Messaging app wars take new turn with Line IPO

Messaging app wars take new turn with Line IPO

Line has nearly 220 million monthly active users worldwide, but the company faces stiff competition from riva…

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Top court green-lights surveillance of Japan's Muslims

Top court green-lights surveillance of Japan's Muslims

The country's Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit challenging extensive police profiling and surveillance of Mu…

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Indigenous‑led renewable energy projects offer benefits that reach far beyond reducing carbon emissions Original

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By Ian Munroe , Anna L. Berka, Christina Hoicka
| The Conversation
The number of renewable energy projects that are fully or partly Indigenous-owned is growing quickly in Canada, and our new research suggests that their benefits reach far beyond reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The number of such projects on traditional Indigenous territories and reserve lands jumped by more than 300 per cent between 2009 and 2020.
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“Q Day” Is Coming: Is the World Prepared?

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By Ian Munroe 
| Centre for International Governance Innovation
While threats from phishing emails and other kinds of cyberattacks are more of a nuisance with each passing year, there’s a greater worry ahead: quantum computing is universally expected to render our most common data security methods obsolete. The only question is how soon. “As of right now, every piece of information that we have is already lost,” says Shohini Ghose, a quantum physicist and professor of physics and computer science at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.
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Why thefts of copper wire aren't likely to stop any time soon Original

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By Ian Munroe 
| CBC Nova Scotia
When Ben Stickle set out to understand the phenomenon of metal theft, he interviewed a few dozen of the culprits to see how they operated. What he discovered was that many were relatively well-educated. Most had previously worked with metal in some capacity — perhaps at a construction job — and understood its value. They made calculated decisions about the risk of being arrested versus the amount of money they could make by selling it at a scrap metal yard.
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