Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Kroeger alum running for the Wildrose Alliance

Garnett Genuis, B.PAPM 2010, is the Wildrose Alliance candidate for Sherwood Park, his hometown, in the Alberta election.  While a student at Kroeger College, Garnett worked in the Prime Minister’s Office as the assistant to the Director of Policy, in Industry Minister Tony Clement’s office as the assistant to Parliamentary Secretary Mike... More

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Ecuadorian voices

Kirsten Williams, third year B.PAPM student, is in Ecuador until April on a study abroad program.  As part of her studies and as director of project management for Recrear, an international youth organization devoted to social entrepreneurship, Kirsten is spearheading a project titled "100 Voices," which will document the involvement of young... More

Thursday, February 9, 2012

From Africa to Utah

Fourth year B.PAPM student Khadija Ga'al has been selected to present a research paper at the U.S.-based National Conference of Undergraduate Research (NCUR), to be held at Weber State University in Odgen, Utah next month.  Khadija participated in the first African Studies Study Abroad course which took place at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's... More

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Out of Africa

Dr. Derek Ireland, who teaches the Winter term of PAPM 1000, spent the last five months of 2011 as Team Leader of a consulting group that worked with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Secretariat to improve the design and enforcement of competition policy and law across SADC's 15 member states.  The assignment was... More

Friday, January 27, 2012

Vox populi

Fourth-year B.PAPM student Brittany Dale has been hired as a research assistant to the Citizen's Academy of Ottawa, an initiative intended to facilitate civic engagement and dialogue between the public and municipal officials.  She will be part of a team that includes Maureen Molot, professor emerita and former director of the Norman Paterson... More

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Water management

Fourth-year B.PAPM student Natasha Overduin is in Vancouver this week, attending "A Water Gathering: Collaborative Watershed Governance Conference" as part of the research for her Honours Research Essay.  Natasha writes: "My research aim is to better understand how the emerging model of collaborative watershed governance is applied in practice.... More

Friday, December 16, 2011

Launching an international career

Prof. James Milner of the Department of Political Science, whose research expertise is in refugee issues and who has worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in India, Africa and Geneva, offers advice to students interested in launching international careers.  Watch him here:... More

Thursday, December 8, 2011

For the people of Attawapiskat

Third-year B.PAPM student Graham Shonfield is living in a makeshift tent outside the University Centre for four days to raise awareness about the housing crisis in Attawapiskat.  He is also soliciting donations for Shannen's Dream, an initiative of the First Nations Caring Society. "Shannen Koostachin was a girl from Attawapiskat who had a... More

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Stabilizing Kashmir

B.PAPM graduate Kavita Bapat (2011) has had a version of her Honours Research Essay published in the latest issue of SITREP: The Journal of the Royal Canadian Military Institute (Vol. 71, No. 6).  Titled "Kashmir's Security Dilemma," the article documents the instability of the region and the abuses of security forces, and argues that... More

Monday, October 31, 2011

TVO’s Steve Paikin delivers 2011 Bell lecture

Steve Paikin, anchor and senior editor of TVOntario's flagship program The Agenda with Steve Paikin, delivered the 20th annual Dick, Ruth and Judy Bell lecture on November 16 on "The Personal Price of a Political Life." The author of four books, the most recent a biography of former Ontario premier John P. Robarts, Steve Paikin is... More

Friday, October 28, 2011

Intern in Peru through Kroeger College

Kroeger College will send up to six students to live, learn and work in the high Andes for six weeks in the Spring (May to mid-June).  Interns will be attached to one of the projects run by Nexos Voluntarios in Urubamba, Peru. The College will cover return airfare, participation and accommodation costs.  Interns will... More

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Co-op through B.PAPM

Ursula, the mascot of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, has been on a cross-country tour, taking the pulse of post-secondary education.  Most recently she spoke to Kroeger College student Barbara Hanna about how the work experience gained through co-operative education has complemented her academic studies.  Barbara has... More

Friday, August 19, 2011

9th Annual Killam Public Lecture

Fulbright Canada is proud to be hosting the 9th Annual Killam Public Lecture on Thursday September 15 from 5:30 – 7:00 pm.  This year, the renowned Canadian economist Thomas Courchene will deliver a lecture entitled “Rekindling the American Dream.” The lecture builds on Dr. Courchene’s recent IRPP Policy Horizons essay of the same... More

Friday, June 10, 2011

Activism That Works

Professor emerita Elizabeth (Bessa) Whitmore -- who teaches the capstone seminar for the B.PAPM specialization in Development Studies -- is the co-editor of a new volume examining how "success" is understood and measured in social justice and environmental activism.  Activism That Works looks at eight different social justice organizations,... More

Friday, June 10, 2011

College co-sponsors roundtable on “Arab Spring”

The Atlantic Council and Kroeger College will co-host a panel on the "Arab Spring" June 14.  Speakers include Dr. Michael Atallah of the Privy Council Office and Dr. Michael Baranick of the National Defence University, Washington D.C.  Click here to view the official... More

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

B.PAPM graduate wins Coady Internship to Ethopia

2010 Kroeger College graduate Kathleen Courtney has been awarded a Youth in Partnership internship by the Coady International Institute.  One of only 15 internships awarded annually, the opportunity allows recent university graduates to work with development organizations in their area of expertise.  Interns work for six months with one of the... More

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Kroeger student wins Tory Award

Graduating B.PAPM student Martha Chertkow will be presented with the University’s Henry Marshall Tory Award at the Convocation ceremony June 8. Established in 1950, the H.M. Tory Award honours a top academic student who has been active extracurricularly and who demonstrates the qualities of leadership. In addition to her stellar academic record,... More

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Into the Andes

Five Kroeger College students will be spending the month of May staffing a Campaign Against Racial Discrimination in the Peruvian district of Urubamba, in the Andes mountains. Ashley Gardner, Kaitlyn Finner, Olivia Tran, Chelsea Smith and Robyn Gibbard will be working with Nexos Voluntarios, a not-for-profit agency devoted to development and human... More

Monday, April 11, 2011

Witnesses to Rwanda

On May 14, Jenn Tod and Maria Loveys will be traveling to Rwanda for two weeks. Both Jenn and Maria are fourth year students specializing in Human Rights. They will be part of SHOUT Canada’s Reflections on Rwanda Tour, meeting with genocide survivors, viewing memorials and touring the nation. The initiative – co-created by... More

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Two Kroeger students headed for Durban

Blair Newbold and Khadija Ga’al are two of nine Carleton students selected to participate in a course on “Health Care in Post-Apartheid South Africa,” to be taught by Carleton professor Susanne Klausen at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in Durban.  Organized through the Institute for African Studies, the course will examine the legacy of... More

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Visiting Fellow Jodi White joins the discussion

Jodi White, Kroeger College Visiting Fellow, Carleton graduate and former chief of staff to Prime Minister Kim Campbell, joins Edward (Eddie) Goldenberg, chief of staff to Prime Minister Jean Chretien, and Keith Beardsley, former deputy chief of staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in a freewheeling discussion today on “Inside the Prime... More

Monday, February 28, 2011

Bound for Brussels

B.PAPM students Alexander Kovalchuk, Michelle Sterling and Viktoryia Leipi have been selected to participate in the 2011 European Union Study Tour.  They will spend the month of May learning about European politics and institutions, and Canada-EU relations, through high-level briefings offered by European politicians and public servants in... More

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Inside the Prime Minister’s Office

Christopher Dornan moderates a discussion  between Edward (Eddie) Goldenberg, former chief of staff to Prime Minister Jean Chretien, and Keith Beardsley, deputy chief of staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, at the annual meeting of the Canadian Study of Parliament Group, March 25.  Click here for... More

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Christopher Dornan describes the proposed Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management in the Hill Times.

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Friday, February 18, 2011

PAPM Student Graham Shonfield Releases Film

Click here for more information on Shonfield's film entitled "Life on the... More

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Gwynne Dyer to give Public Lecture on Climate Change

What happens when the global temperature rises and food is less plentiful?  When hunger becomes a weapon and agriculture a battleground?  Kroeger College presents a public lecture by internationally syndicated columnist Gwynne Dyer on "Climate Wars: The Security Implications of Climate Change." Gwynne Dyer is a military historian,... More

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Kroeger College welcomes alumnus Dr. David Coletto as visiting fellow

Six years after graduating from the B.PAPM, David Coletto is now CEO of Ottawa-based Abacus Data, which has partnered with the Arthur Kroger College of Public Affairs in the formation of the Vertex Panel, a periodic sounding of public policy leaders on issues of national significance. Dr. David Coletto leads Abacus Data’s team of... More

Monday, November 15, 2010

Kroeger College visits Queen’s Park

On October 26th, a delegation of B.PAPM students travelled to Toronto and Queen’s Park, where we not only sat in on Question Period but were also treated to exclusive briefings from several Members of the Provincial Parliament and senior policy advisors on the contemporary realities of the Ontario Public Service.  We were privileged to... More

Friday, October 8, 2010

Kroeger College has partnered with the new Ottawa-based polling firm Abacus Data to tap the minds of Canada’s public policy leaders

Abacus Data is in the process of assembling an online community of opinion leaders on public policy issues in the form of the Vertex Panel.  While most polls sample the general population, the Vertex Panel is being created to take periodic soundings of a select group of parliamentarians, political staff, journalists, business and labour... More

Monday, September 13, 2010

Interning at the International Labour Organization – Martha Chertkow

As a Kroeger College student and an avid human rights advocate, the United Nations has always been a central focus of my studies, activism and career ambitions.  This past summer I had the incredible opportunity to realize part of these ambitions as an intern for the United Nations at the International Labour Organization (ILO)... More

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Kroeger intern in Ghana

Kaitlyn Finner in Ghana As a Kroeger College student here at Carleton there are many ways to connect what I have learned in the classroom to life outside academia. This summer I have taken an opportunity to apply my studies in the “real world”. From May through the end of August I am working... More

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Kroeger College to launch Canada’s first graduate degree in political management

Through the foresight and generosity of Clayton H. Riddell and subject to approval by the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies, Carleton University and the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs will establish the Clayton H. Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management, the first degree of its kind in Canada. ... More

Monday, March 15, 2010

Distinguished Roster of Carleton’s Kroeger College Award Winners Spans the Generations

(Ottawa) − The most respected political journalist in the country. The “dean emeritus of Canada’s corporate bar.” A man who has been called “one of the greatest public servants in the history of our country.” An international expert on e-commerce and intellectual property rights in the digital age. And an agency that aids employers... More

Friday, February 12, 2010

An International Careers Workshop

Have you ever wondered what it's like to work with an international organization? Do you have an interest in developing an international career? Do you have questions on how to get started? If you answered 'yes' to any of these questions, Arthur Kroeger College and the Department of Political Science are planning an event... More

Monday, January 11, 2010

Kroeger College student headed for Africa

Pembroke woman ready for Africa mission Pembroke native and Fellowes High School graduate Cassandra Demers will be spending this winter away from the ice and snow, but she isn't hitting the beach. Instead, the third-year Carleton University student will be heading to the west coast of Africa to help out with an effort to... More

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