This Week @ FPA – April 15, 2013
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| Spotlight on … Stan Winer | |||
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James Bradshaw: Ottawa’s cost-cutting casts shadow over Royal Military College’s future |
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| The 139-year-old Royal Military College of Canada’s authority is under siege, and the school’s leaders are powerless to protect it. The report, penned by an independent panel of three accomplished RMC alumni, says civil servants are running the school more like a government department than a university, damaging morale and making it harder to attract and keep leading academics from civilian universities. “The recommendations that we’ve made, I believe, are ones that are necessary to take the college to the next stage, to be a more viable academic institution, a university,” said co-author Elinor Sloan, a professor in international relations at Carleton University. | |||
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Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf: CIJA working in a more competitive market |
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| Maureen Appel Molot, distinguished research professor at Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, said the time was right for a shake-up of the old advocacy structure. CIJA’s advantages and disadvantages have been a continuing source of debate since the organization dismantled Canadian Jewish Congress, the Canada-Israel Committee (CIC) and National Jewish Campus Life (Hillel’s parent body) in 2011 while simultaneously assuming the older agencies’ roles. | |||
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Carl Renaud: La FTQ est sceptique |
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| La Fédération des travailleurs du Québec (FTQ) a des doutes sur les conclusions du Comité D’Amours, le groupe d’experts mandaté pour trouver des solutions à la crise des régimes de retraite, qui doit publier son rapport mercredi prochain. La centrale syndicale craint que les mesures proposées par le comité ne soient pas à la hauteur des enjeux. Le professeur d’administration Marc-André Gagnon, un expert en assurance-médicaments de l’Université Carleton, est l’un des défenseurs du modèle universel. Il a soulevé plusieurs critiques envers les régimes privés dans une allocution présentée pendant le séminaire de la FTQ. | |||
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Margaret Thatcher was an original |
| “There was so much to dislike about Margaret Thatcher, particularly if you did not share her view of the world” says Andrew Cohen in the Ottawa Citizen. “Or, more simply, if you fell on the wrong side of her steely gaze. Oh, so much to resent, so much to revile; why, for her legion of detractors, she presented a catalogue of grievance. More… | |
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The notorious difference-makers |
| In what might be one of the stranger synchronicities in the history of world politics, Narendra Modi was giving a speech extolling the twin virtues of small government and efficient governance at the very moment that news of the death of Margaret Thatcher was breaking. Modi, like Lady Thatcher, is no stranger to controversy says Carleton economics professor Vivek Dehejia. More… |
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Disappearing federal websites – Harperites’ secret plan to ‘streamline’ websites likely to cut public access to vital information. |
| According to Carleton Journalism instructor Peter O’Malley, were it not for a conscientious bureaucrat who leaked a presentation on Harper’s “web presence renewal” strategy to the BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (BCFIPA), we would, as usual, not know anything about the Prime Minister’s plan A) to slash the number of federal departmental web sites, B) to remove “unpopular” information from the sites that remain, and C) to set up formal, centralized supervision over information subsequently posted on the handful of surviving web sites. More… |
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