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Wednesday, March 29, 2023
By Dan Rubinstein In the early 1990s the mountain pine beetle outbreak began in British Columbia, wiping out more than half of the province’s commercial pine trees. The insect has continued its destructive advance eastward, breaching the Rocky Mountains into Alberta and now threatening the boreal forest in... More
Monday, March 27, 2023
Associate Professor Mehdi Ammi and Adjunct Research Professor Antoine Dedewanou, jointly with colleagues from the University of Toronto and McGill University, recently published a peer-reviewed article titled “Prioritization of public health financing, organization, and... More
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
By Christopher Dougherty and Susan Phillips Celebrity is a form of policy influence that can occur under distinctive circumstances. This paper draws on the regulatory/policy capture literature to develop a model of celebrity capture that explains how interest groups can affect policy in the absence of economic clout or constituency mobilization.... More
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
By Graeme Auld, Amanda Clarke, Benjamin Faveri Private auditors provide third-party conformity assessments against principles, practices, standards, and legislation. Big names in this field include accounting firms like EY and Deloitte and technical inspection firms like Bureau Veritas and Intertek. These firms already play a significant role in... More
By Dan Rubinstein To ward off the worst impacts of climate change, Canada has committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. That means in less than three decades the amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) being released into the atmosphere from all sources of emissions — buildings, industry, transportation and so forth — must be no greater... More
Friday, February 17, 2023
Let’s move away from subjective and sporadic reform efforts to a routine system that generates institutional learning based on ongoing evidence. by Daniel J. Caron, Evert Lindquist, Robert P. Shepherd February 14, 2023 In a December 2022 column in Policy Options, “Canada needs a royal commission to fix problems with the federal public... More
Thursday, February 9, 2023
SPPA Associate Professor Marc-André Gagnon published Commentary: Reconsidering Pharmaceutical Research and Development Investments in Healthcare Policy, Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 25-30, February 2023. ISSN 17156572 DOI 10.12927/HCPOL.2023.27037 Abstract Following Lee and colleagues' (2023) article explaining how Canadians are being... More
Monday, February 6, 2023
In sea of consulting contract problems, the Conservatives only dream of their whale CAMPBELL CLARK PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 3, 2023 The Conservatives had so much there in front of them. All the opposition did. They were reviewing the growing mountain of government contracts issued to consultants, including $116-million and counting to the high-priced... More
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
McKinsey a ‘distraction’ from problem of consulting contracts, researcher tells MPs By Nojoud Al Mallees The Canadian Press Mon., Jan. 30, 2023 OTTAWA - A researcher testifying before a parliamentary committee on the rise in government contracts awarded to McKinsey & Company said the focus on that one consulting firm is a distraction.... More
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
‘Era of uncertainty’: How leaders in Canada’s non-profit sector are preparing for 2023 Polarization, giving trends, equity, HR issues, reconciliation, the data gap, the climate crisis: we asked leaders in Canada’s non-profit and charitable sector about the challenges and societal shifts they’ll be watching in 2023. Here’s what they had... More
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Agents of change A small neighbourhood in Toronto has built a program to help residents reduce their household emissions. Could their grassroots approach become a template for the rest of the country? By Andre Mayer Jan. 16, 2023 On a snow-flecked Sunday afternoon in mid-December, Paul Dowsett gathered a group of neighbours in his... More
Thursday, January 5, 2023
Pretending ‘nature-based solutions’ will solve the climate crisis is perverse and delusional We cannot hide behind language that tells a bizarre story about how the planet we are in the process of destroying is simultaneously going to save us. By Patricia Hardie Sun., Jan. 1, 2023 Every day I walk in the “Hundred Acre... More
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