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December 2, 2020

Carleton University Chancellor Yaprak Baltacioğlu Renewed for a Second Term

By Karen Kelly Carleton University’s Board of Governors has announced that Yaprak Baltacioğlu has been reappointed as Carleton’s Chancellor. An alumna of Carleton’s School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA), Baltacioğlu was appointed... More

December 1, 2020

Breaking Barriers: Miss World 1970

From Raven Magazine’s Book Excerpts… My master’s thesis, on the effect of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), between Canada, the United States and Mexico, on Commonwealth countries in... More

December 1, 2020

Looking in the Mirror: The Ku Klux Klan in Canada

From Raven Magazine's Book Excerpts... Hate has a name. Hate has a face. Hate has an address. It lives in Canada. The Ku Klux Klan’s more than one-hundred-year presence in... More

December 1, 2020

Cultural Healing: How a Social Work Practicum Helped Me Find My Niche

From Raven Magazine... Andrew Simpson earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degree in social work at Carleton. Born and raised in Bancroft, Ont., and of Métis ancestry, he works for Dnaagdawenmag Binnoojiiyag Child &... More

December 1, 2020

Cross-Country Checkup: Co-Op Student Joins the Collaborative Health Care Innovation Secretariat

From Raven Magazine... Last January, Yassen Atallah — a master’s student at Carleton’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs — landed a co-op position as a policy analyst at Health Canada’s Health Care Innovation... More

December 1, 2020

Existential Threat: Investing in Technology to Solve Hard Problems

From Raven Magazine... When Fiona McKean and Tobi Lütke launched the Thistledown Foundation in January, the couple seeded their charity with a $150-million endowment and focused on carbon removal technologies. McKean, who runs The Opinicon... More

December 1, 2020

Uphill Battle: Toronto City Councillor Fights for Health Equity — and Bike Lanes

From Raven Magazine... Since first getting elected in 2014, Toronto city councillor Joe Cressy — a Bachelor of Public Affairs and Policy Management graduate from Carleton — has represented the downtown ward of Spadina-Fort... More

December 1, 2020

Last Refuge: Helping People Who Have Nowhere Else to Turn

From Raven Magazine... When COVID-19 upended life in Ottawa, the city’s most vulnerable residents faced heightened risks. Rather than dodge the challenge, Nicole McLean dove in. A rule change allowed the social... More