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Tuesday, December 14, 2021
The School of Public Policy and Administration is deeply saddened to announce that our beloved colleague and friend Christopher Stoney passed away on Saturday, December 11 at home, surrounded by his family. Chris met his wife, Catherine Waters, while they were both in SPPA’s MA in Public Administration program from 1987 to 1989. Chris... More
Wednesday, December 8, 2021
What the World Needs Now: Indigenous Rights, Health Care, and Transition Pathways to Net Zero Watch our November 2021 faculty panel discussion with three SPPA faculty members on the importance of good public policy to help solve the crucial issues of the world today. James Meadowcroft In our rapidly changing world, economic, social and... More
Monday, November 22, 2021
By Micah Ton, MA Sustainable Energy student SPPA Prof. Alexandra Mallett’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded project explores the links between governance (how decisions are made) and energy system changes in communities in Northwest Territories. The central aim of the research is to find out if there are more... More
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Managing pandemics as super wicked problems: lessons from, and for, COVID-19 and the climate crisis Graeme Auld, Steven Bernstein, Benjamin Cashore & Kelly Levin Policy Sciences (2021) Abstract COVID-19 has caused 100s of millions of infections and millions of deaths worldwide, overwhelming health and economic capacities in many countries... More
By Karen Kelly Each year, $1.7 billion dollars in social benefits go unclaimed in Canada, sitting in programs such as the GST tax rebate, the Canada Workers Benefit and the Canada Child Benefit. Most are meant for people who are struggling financially. As researchers who study social policy and income support for low-income Canadians,... More
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
We are proud to announce FPA’s winners of the 2021 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grants. These grants support research in its early stages, enabling “the development of new research questions, as well as experimentation with new methods, theoretical approaches and/or ideas.” Jose Galdo,... More
Friday, November 12, 2021
At the annual general meeting of the National Capital Chapter of the Canadian Evaluation Society October 28, 2021, SPPA Prof. Robert Shepherd gave the keynote presentation: "Looking Back and Around: Canadian and International Experience with Spending Reviews." The presentation focused on the potential for federal and provincial governments to use... More
Monday, November 1, 2021
SPPA Open House: Good Public Policy — What the World Needs Now Watch our 2021 faculty panel discussion with three SPPA faculty members on the importance of good public policy to help solve the crucial issues of the world today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTRowhZJDno Student Experiences Our students join us from unique and diverse career and... More
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi, along with Emmanuelle Arpin and Sara Allin, recently published a peer-reviewed journal article titled, "Interpreting forty-three-year trends of expenditures on public health in Canada: Long-run trends, temporal periods, and data differences" in Health Policy. This work is part of Canadian Institutes of Health... More
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
By Karen Kelly In 2016, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission called on Canadians to “redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of Canadian reconciliation.” At the same time, it called on universities to increase the “integration of Indigenous knowledge” into the classroom. The Faculty of Public Affairs has sought... More
Friday, October 1, 2021
Keeping Canada Running: Infrastructure and the Future of Governance in a Pandemic World By G.Bruce Doern, Christopher Stoney and Robert Hilton Assessing Canadian infrastructure regimes at a time of crisis and rebuilding. The federal government's promises to "build back better" and "build back green" highlight opportunities to reimagine... More
Friday, September 24, 2021
Philanthropies pledge billions during UN meeting Philanthropies choose to announce big initiatives during the General Assembly to get more attention on their commitments and influence the public agenda, experts say. “This is the time where you have a global audience, otherwise the audience is more fragmented by countries,” said Paloma Raggo, a... More
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