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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Life after the B.PAPM

The Kroeger College Alumni Chapter held a networking event for graduating PAPM students Wednesday evening, featuring a panel of Ottawa-area alumni offering lessons from their experience in the workforce, along with a mix-and-mingle opportunity with other Kroeger College alumni in attendance.  The event was organized by Alumni Chapter president... More

Monday, March 4, 2013

Award winning research

Fourth year PAPM student Tamara Nahal has been awarded a Julius Lukasiewicz Award, worth $1,050, for her research on multi-modal transportation in Ottawa.  The award goes to a student who has completed a 3000- or 4000-level course in Technology, Society and Environment Studies and is pursuing a research project germane to the relationship between... More

Friday, March 1, 2013

Hearts & Mines on the bill for Bluesfest

Björk may have grabbed the headlines when it was announced she would be playing Ottawa's Bluesfest this summer -- along with bands such as Flogging Molly, The Tragically Hip and The Dixie Chicks -- but so will Hearts & Mines, the band formed and fronted by fourth-year B.PAPM student Matt Luloff following his experience with... More

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Easing the pain of filing tax returns

The free tax clinic coordinated by fourth-year B.PAPM student Basmah Osman, which provides help to low and middle income earners in filing their tax returns, is profiled by reporter Vito Pilieci in today's Ottawa Citizen.  Basmah is a volunteer with  the Ottawa Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) which provides free... More

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Putting the ‘pub’ in public affairs

One month into 2013, the Arthur Kroeger Educational Students Society -- AKCESS -- moves a motion to caucus, relax and socialize.  All in favour are invited to convene at PUB 101, York St., this Friday evening February 1.  Tickets are... More

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

In with the new

Third year B.PAPM student Layla Farhat -- studying at American University in Washington, D.C. this term on a Killam Fellowship -- was one of the organizers of Ottawa's New Year's Eve street celebration, which saw almost 20,000 people gather on the Sparks Street mall to ring in 2013.  The Killam Fellowship asked her to... More

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Lest we forget

Third year PAPM student Olivia Tran is back at Carleton after spending the Fall term in France, working for Veterans Affairs Canada as an interpretive guide at the Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial and Vimy Ridge National Memorial, the only two Canadian memorial sites not on Canadian soil.  "It was such a great opportunity," she says.... More

Thursday, December 20, 2012

The forest and the trees

Life after the B.PAPM: Over the next 15 months, Kroeger College graduate Rene Toupin-Piper (2010) will be working in Cameroon for the African Model Forest Network (AMFN). Based on an idea born here in Canada, the AMFN is an initiative in participatory sustainable forest management, working with the affected communities, government and industry to... More

Friday, December 7, 2012

View from the North

The latest issue of Northern Public Affairs is now available, featuring articles by federal Minister of Health Leona Aglukkaq, NDP MP Niki Ashton, and Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett, along with an interview with Yukon Premier Darell Pasloski.  This is the second issue of the journal, which was co-founded and edited by B.PAPM graduate ('07)... More

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Sugar rush for a good cause

Cupcakes, butter tarts, brownies and cookies -- the students of Kroeger College baked and gorged themselves over two days to raise money so that a less-privileged family can enjoy a festive Christmas.  The two-day bake sale raised some $200 for the cause, which is administered by the Shepherds of Good Hope.  Fundraising efforts continue. ... More

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Designing for the disabled in Africa

The Arthur Kroeger College is proud to co-sponsor the Peter Kruus Memorial Lecture, Thursday November 8.  The speaker is Noel Wilson, lead designer for San Francisco based Catapult Design, a company that specializes in helping developing world communities craft tools to alleviate poverty.  The lecture coincides with an initiative in which... More

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Allan Gregg makes political waves

Kroeger College adjunct professor Allan Gregg, chair of Harris/Decima, opened the academic year and the university's new River building with a public address titled "Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2012: the assault on reason."  The speech decried what he sees as a recent turn in Canadian and American political culture in which evidence and reason have... More

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