Archives: Capital Advantage

Monday, October 18, 2021

Carleton Ranks High in Maclean’s 2022 University Ranking

The 2022 university rankings published in Maclean’s magazine on Oct. 7, 2021 underscore Carleton University’s leadership in the post-secondary sector, particularly in the areas of research, student awards, and Indigenous initiatives. Carleton maintained its top 5 overall ranking in the comprehensive category — universities with a... More

Friday, October 1, 2021

Sustainable Energy Alumnus Emerging Leader of the 2022 Clean50 List for Canadian Sustainability

Master of Arts in Sustainable Energy alumnus John McNally was included as an Emerging Leader and Member of the 2022 Clean50 list for Canadian Sustainability. The Clean50 is Canada's top sustainability award. McNally is currently a senior researcher of Clean Growth Policy at the Smart Prosperity Institute in Ottawa. In 2020, he was also... More

Thursday, September 30, 2021

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: Planting a Seed Towards Reconciliation

The School of Public Policy and Administration was honoured to welcome Carleton alumnus Tim O’Loan, who spoke with our community on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, September 30. In his presentation, woven with two life-changing short videos, Tim O’Loan shared his personal stories, experiences and challenges stemming from his... More

Wednesday, August 18, 2021

SPPA Researchers Establish Lab to Study Decentred Governance in the Digital Era

Processes like seafood sustainability labelling programs or efforts to improve working conditions in the transnational supply chains for apparel and electronics are being devised and driven by non-governmental actors. Digital era tools are interwoven in these efforts. Block chain technologies, for example, are increasingly used for secure... More

Monday, August 9, 2021

Moving Fast and Breaking Public Trust: How Digital Reforms in Government Must be More Accountable to Citizens

Amanda Clarke is a recipient of the 2021 Early Researcher Award. By Joseph Mathieu Even as the Ontarian and Canadian governments are boldly considering digital reforms to meet their citizens’ needs, there is a risk that this work is undermining citizen trust, not bolstering it. “We know very little about what Canadians actually want, and... More

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

New Teaching Case on Air Quality Regulation in Canada

Mike Beale, a practitioner-in-residence with the School has just published a regulatory case study “The Dog that Doesn’t Bark: Federal Regulation of Industrial Air Pollution in Canada”. Air pollution is a significant cause of premature deaths in Canada. Environment and Climate Change Canada has authority to regulate emissions. Yet, Mike... More

Monday, May 17, 2021

Efficiency Canada at Carleton University Takes Part in Prime Minister’s $10-Million Announcement Supporting Energy Efficiency

Corey Diamond, executive director of Efficiency Canada at Carleton University, took part in a $10-million announcement by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today to support energy efficiency in Canada’s residential sector. The funds will be used to recruit and train approximately 2,000 energy advisers across Canada, with a focus on... More

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

SPPA Scholar Cameron Roberts Says Now’s the Time to Push Public Transit

By Elizabeth Howell COVID-19 has placed public transit systems and sustainable infrastructure on a “knife’s edge,” argues Carleton postdoctoral research fellow Cameron Roberts. “The pandemic made people cautious to climb aboard crowded buses and trains and reduced most of our activities to a short radius around our living quarters,”... More

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Professor Stephan Schott co-edits the Canadian Journal for European and Russian Studies

Associate Professor Stephan Schott co-edited a special edition of the Canadian Journal for European and Russian Studies titled “Carbon Politics in Canada and Europe: Coping with Jurisdictional and Interest Diversity,” and published Climate and Energy Politics in Canada and Germany: Dealing with Fossil Fuel Legacies: Potentials for Greater... More

Thursday, April 22, 2021

Philanthropy Report to Support Black Communities Cited in Federal Budget

By Dan Rubinstein New research from Carleton University was one of the factors that moved the federal government to create a Black-led philanthropic fund and support Black community initiatives in Budget 2021 released April 19, 2021. That research — a report called “Unfunded: Black Communities are Overlooked by Canadian Philanthropy,”... More

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Carleton Partners in Major National Project to Rebuild First Nations Governance

By Laura Byrne Paquet In 17 ambiguous words, Section 35.1 of the Constitution Act, 1982 set Canada on a new path that is still unfolding. The section reads: “The existing Aboriginal and treaty rights of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada are hereby recognized and affirmed.” “We possess that inherent right to self-government; we possess that... More

Friday, November 27, 2020

New National Survey: Access for all — Near universal support for a pharmacare plan covering Canadians’ prescription drug costs

From the Angus Reid Institute: The COVID-19 pandemic has put Canada’s health care system under a microscope — revealing millions of people in this country are struggling to access the prescription medicines they need. A new study from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds the situation unimproved from 2015, when a landmark ARI study... More

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