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Thursday, July 20, 2023
Congratulations to Associate Professor Vivian Hoffmann along with co-author Sarah Wairimu Kariuki who have won " Best Article in Agricultural Economics 2022" by the International Association of Agricultural Economics (IAAE) for their article "Can information drive demand for safer food? Impact of brand-specific recommendations and test... More
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
By Evert Lindquist and Robert P. Shepherd First published: 19 June 2023, in IPAC's Canadian Public Administration Journal https://doi.org/10.1111/capa.12532 Abstract Following surges of spending and staff hiring to address the COVID-19 pandemic, the Trudeau government announced a strategic policy review in the 2022 Budget to secure savings of $6... More
Friday, May 19, 2023
Kristen Pue and Anna Kopec's paper “Do Service-providing Nonprofits Contribute to Democratic Inclusion?: Analyzing Democracy Promotion by Canadian Homeless Shelters” was published in the Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 14(1), 1-29 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.29173/cjnser615 Abstract Nonprofits are key social... More
Alison Smith (University of Toronto) and SPPA Associate Professor Anna Kopec have published the paper “Mapping Homelessness Research in Canada” in the American Review of Canadian Studies, 53(1), 42-62 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2023.2170155 Abstract What is known about homelessness in Canada? In this article, we present... More
Anna Kopec's paper “Critical Junctures as Complex Processes: Examining Mechanisms of Policy Change and Path Dependence in the Canadian Pandemic Response to Homelessness” was published in the Journal of Public Policy, 1-21 (2023). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0143814X23000053 Abstract Policy change is not an instantaneous or linear process. In... More
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Marc-André Gagnon and Miaoran Dong's paper "What did the scientific literature learn from internal company documents in the pharmaceutical industry? A scoping review" was published in Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods, Vol 1, Issue 3, May 2023, https://doi/.org/10.1002/cesm.12011 Abstract Objective To identify all scientific papers... More
SPPA Professor Lisa Mills' paper "Getting closure? Mining rehabilitation reform in Queensland and Western Australia" was published in The Extractive Industries and Society, vol 11, September 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2022.101097 Highlights Mining legacies arising from orphaned and abandoned mines a global issue. Reform to address... More
Pedro Bigolin Neto and SPPA Associate Professor Alexandra Mallett's paper Public participation in environmental impact assessment processes through various channels – Can you listen to us now? Lessons from a Brazilian mining case was recently published in Extractive Industries and Society, Volume 13, March 2023, 101186, as part of a special... More
Monday, April 3, 2023
Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi, jointly with political scientists Olivier Jacques and Alain Noël from Université de Montréal and health services researcher Emmanuelle Arpin from the University of Toronto, recently published a peer-reviewed article titled “The political and fiscal determinants of public health and curative care expenditures:... More
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