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03/08/2016

Have you taken the pledge yet? Have you told your alumni friends to pledge? Help us send a strong message to McGill to end military research!

03/07/2016

Introducing The Network Dynamics Laboratory:

McGill professor Derek Ruths and his Network Dynamics Laboratory are collaborating with military, police, and intelligence agencies to develop tools for surveilling social media, profiling real-world communities, and influencing and controlling social movements that might destabilize the authority of governments. Dr Ruths' lab recently received an $85,100 contract from the Kanishka Project, a federal government initiative that funds university researchers to conduct national security-related research.

His research contributes directly to the monitoring and profiling of both online and real-world communities, giving police and military agencies increased ability to surveil and control resistance.

An array of labs and research groups at McGill University campus receive funds from the Canadian armed forces and various defence contractors to conduct research which directly benefits the development of harmful military technologies. This research makes tangible contributions to specific military…

03/03/2016

Did you know McGill University has no body to evaluate the potential harm of the applications of its military research. No special kind of attention is paid to research funded by non-peer review sources, such as military organizations. McGill has used the absence of review bodies for ethical military research in other universities as an excuse to not adopt one itself. McGill has deliberately omitted any ethical view of military research and tip-toed around policies even when they were in place.

For more info here's a from 2010 when McGill refused to keep ethical regulations during a policy review.

After a year-long battle in Senate, harmful research disclosure left out

03/02/2016

In the lead up to we'll be highlighting some of the harmful military research being done at