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Thursday, May 5, 2022
By Ellen Tsaprailis The multiple waves of COVID-19 has diverted considerable health-care resources away from patients who are dealing with chronic diseases since the spring of 2020. Canadians who are trying to overcome or manage diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes use a fair amount of health-care resources. The past two years... More
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
SPPA welcomes Sean Boots as our Public Servant-in-Residence. Boots is a policy advisor with the Canadian Digital Service (CDS). He previously worked as a product designer with VOTO Mobile, a Ghana-based social enterprise focused on empowering under-heard communities, and as a developer at Global Affairs Canada working on the Travel.gc.ca website... More
SPPA Prof. Alexandra Mallett have been working with Prosanto Pal from The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in New Delhi, India on decarbonizing and making the production of steel more sustainable in India. This is part of an initiative (funded by the UK government), Climate Compatible Growth (CCG). The Policy Brief, Climate Compatible Growth... More
Monday, January 31, 2022
In a newly published article in Global Policy, Professor Graeme Auld teamed up with colleagues to examine the uptake of the ecosystem services as a governance concept informing efforts to conserve global biodiversity. Ecosystem services is an idea that offered a way to think about valuing nature in terms of the “services” provided to... More
Thursday, January 20, 2022
Joseph Mathieu, January 18, 2022 The Ărramăt Project: Reconnecting Indigenous Well-Being & Biodiversity Although Indigenous Peoples make up only five per cent of the planet’s population, approximately 80 per cent of Earth’s biodiversity is located within their traditional territories. However, a decline in global biodiversity due to... More
Sunday, January 16, 2022
The Trudeau government and GIC appointments in Canada Kathy Brock, Robert P. Shepherd International Journal of Public Sector Management ISSN: 0951-3558 Article publication date: 7 January 2022 Abstract Purpose According to the traditional view of public administration, a critical component of good policy formulation is the provision of frank... More
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Environmental impacts of mining in Brazil and the environmental licensing process: Changes needed for changing times? Alexandra Mallett, Erica Lima, Barros Franca, Italo Alves, and Lisa Mills Abstract Brazil, a key mining producer globally, has a comprehensive system of environmental laws and institutions. Nevertheless, their effectiveness has... More
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
SPPA Professor Paloma Raggo was awarded a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant in partnership with SPPA School Fellow Cathy Barr (Imagine Canada) and Susanna Kislenko (University of Oxford) for the project, “The Governance Perspective on Founder’s Syndrome: Assessing the Role of the Board.” The recent events surrounding WE Charity has brought into... More
Thursday, December 2, 2021
By Jonathan Malloy, Associate Dean (Research and International) The mission of the Faculty of Public Affairs to build better democracy and foster informed citizenship was well on display in the 2021 Canadian federal election. FPA researchers were highly active in the election, mobilizing their research and scholarship to support the democratic... 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
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
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
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