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Derek Ballantyne—housing activist, former CEO of the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC), and now COO of Build Toronto—was awarded the tenth Jane Jacobs Prize yesterday afternoon in a small, affection-laced ceremony at the Munk Centre for International Studies. Though award distribution often brings with it a share of bluster, this particular event was laden with warmth and humility, with speakers eager to share credit for their accomplishments and visibly grateful to the woman who gave the prize her name.

The New York Times broke a story on Sunday that has since stirred up some local interest (and some national interest as well): Toronto researchers Greg Walton and Nart Villeneuve of the U of T Munk Centre for International Studies' Citizen Lab were, along with Ottawa-based consultancy SecDev, instrumental in ferreting out some very shady spy activity happening on at least 1,295 computers around the world, approximately 30% of which were owned and operated by so-called "high-value" targets, including journalists, embassies—even the Dalai Lama. A lot of the data necessary for the investigation was gathered abroad, but the brunt of the analysis happened right here, in Toronto, under the aegis of U of T.