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Wednesday, April 10, 2024
SPPA alumnus and instructor, Sancho Angulo, who is autistic, is the driving force behind Infinity – a network dedicated to supporting neurodivergent employees in Canada’s federal public service. By Jena Lynde-Smith Neurodivergent describes people with cognitive functions that differ from what society considers to be ‘normal,’... More
Monday, April 8, 2024
“Whistleblowing is a mechanism for accountability. It tells you who is responsible for issues, and who should fix them" - Paloma Raggo, Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration and Director of the Charity Insights Canada Project By Ty Burke Whistleblowers shed light on problems that would otherwise remain in the shadows, alerting... More
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
SPPA's Indigenous Policy and Administration Community Coordinator and Administrator Devon Saulis will lead the Wolastoqey Tribal Council Inc. (WTCI) project Sankewitahasuwakon (Peaceful Thoughts) to help support intergenerational healing of Indian day school survivors and their families in Wolastoqey communities in New Brunswick. Devon's project... More
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
SPPA's Alexandra Mallett provides analysis on CBC Radio program Blue Sky, episode "Is the world buying Premier Scott Moe's sustainability messaging at COP28?" aired Dec 11, 2023. Listen to interview: Premier Scott Moe is marketing Saskatchewan as sustainable because we have the food, fuel and fertilizer the world needs, but how true are the... More
Monday, November 13, 2023
SPPA Associate Professor Alexandra Mallett was featured on the Nov 10, 2023 episode of Spark with Nora Young "20th Century tech still powers our 21th Century World" where she discussed what it will take to modernize and secure our aging electrical grid. Listen to episode... More
Monday, July 10, 2023
SPPA faculty member Alexandra Mallett talks to the Globe and Mail about government approach aimed at growing the clean energy economy in the ‘Big Idea’ section of the June 2023 the Report on Business magazine, titled "Money for nothing?". Mallett finds herself thinking about whether the government’s appetite for the blockbuster deal—not... More
Monday, April 3, 2023
SPPA Professor Robert Shepherd comments in this Montreal Gazette article on the new salary range for the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner. Article by Christopher Nardi OTTAWA — The Liberal government is cutting the pay of the next person hired to oversee its ethical issues by more than $110,000 per year, even though... More
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
The Advocacy Riddle How do we ensure the sector has a significant voice in affecting public policy? New research shines a light on the sector’s advocacy efforts, the related challenges, and the structures needed to make that advocacy both broad-based and nimble. A set of studies by the Max Bell and Muttart foundations, as... More
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
IPA Graduate Chief Darcy Gray was featured in FPA Voices article written by Mary Giles. Building Community in Difficult Circumstances In the same week as his convocation from the first cohort of Carleton’s graduate diploma in Indigenous Policy and Administration (IPA), Chief Darcy Gray was elected chief of Listuguj First Nation. He is... More
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Associate Professor Amada Clarke published a featured article in Policy Options titled “One year into pandemic, federal digital government is largely business as usual” “Predictions the pandemic would help modernize the public service have proven unrealistic. In some areas, it might be moving in the wrong direction. It’s been a year... More
Friday, December 18, 2020
Robin Shaban, PhD Candidate in Public Policy in Carleton University’s School of Public Policy and Administration, and principal at Vivic Research has published an op-ed in The Globe and Mail titled “What Canada should learn from the FTC’s case against Facebook”. Read the full piece here.... More
Friday, November 27, 2020
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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