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This Week @ FPA – April 8, 2013

This Week @ FPA – April 8, 2013

Monday, April 8, 2013
Spotlight on … 2012-2013 Achievement Awards
FPA in the news
Chris Sorensen: Compared to their adult counterparts, young Canadians are happy campers
The 30-year mortgages are also not, technically, fixed-rate, because they can easily be refinanced by borrowers who want to take advantage of lower rates. “The person borrowing can get out at any time by switching to another lender, or just by paying it off,” says Nicholas Rowe, an associate professor of economics at Carleton University.
Kathryn Burnham: Study praises anti-smuggling efforts
Carleton University professor Jean Daudelin praised policing efforts in the Cornwall area, which he said have done much to eliminate harder crime associated with cross-border smuggling. “I was expecting more side effects than what I found,” said Daudelin, who authored the study Border integrity, illicit tobacco, and Canada’s security.
Michael Woods & Tobi Cohen: NDP policies to be debated run the gamut from clean energy to the Canadian identity and the Middle East
“You’re going to have resolutions that the party establishment gets squeamish about, but that’s the reality of democracy,” said Carleton University political scientist Bruce Hicks.
FPA in focus
Driving in the passing lane: The Canadian disease
Ina recent column by Frances Woolley – a professor of economics at Carleton – Ontario’s rules of the road are clear: Any vehicle travelling at less than the normal speed of travel should drive in the right-hand lane. Similar laws apply in British Columbia, Alberta and other provinces. So why do people drive slowly in the passing lane? Why do they crawl along in the middle lane of a three-lane artery? More…
A better trade strategy
Michael Hart, who holds the Simon Reisman chair in trade policy at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton, says: “In his 2013 budget, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced that Canada would ‘graduate’ some 72 developing countries and eliminate their eligibility from Canada’s general preferential tariff (GPT), a program first introduced in 1974 to give developing countries a slight competitive edge in the Canadian market.” More…
Canada’s tough-guy cop to ‘aid’ world’s poor
Carleton’s Toby Leon Moorsom says: “In recent years Canadian corporations have benefited from the myth of Canada being a kind and benevolent country. The Canadian government has supported this myth by propagating heroic immigrant narratives that overshadow genocidal policies toward native populations and ill-treatment of immigrants and refugees.” More…
Spotlight on . . .
Teaching Achievement Awards

Simon Power, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Public Affairs
Project Title: The Undergraduate Econometrics Curriculum Revisited
Simon Power specialises in the teaching of econometrics- the specification, estimation, and testing of statistical models in economics. More…

Professional Achievement Award

Danette Nearing-Guibord, Instructor II, Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice
My teaching philosophy is quite simple, to engage students and to help them to link theory with practical experience. More…

Contract Instructors Award

Vlasios Melessanakis, School of Public Policy and Administration, Faculty of Public Affairs
As a lecturer in the SPPA and Kroeger College, the centerpiece of Vlasios’ teaching approach is to exhibit to his students his own sense of vibrant passion for public policy discourse and development. More…
FPA Events
EURUS

EU Climate Policies: Emissions Trading and Fuel Quality Directive – Insights for Canada
Guest: Dr. Oliver Geden
When: April 10, 2013
Time: 11:00 to 12:30
Location: Dunton Tower, Room 2017

ODFPA

Author Meets Readers
Guest: Stan Winer
When: April 11, 2013
Time: 17:30 to 19:00
Location: Georgetown Pub, 1159 Bank St

Economics

Brown Bag Seminar
Market structure and cost pass-through in retail
Guest:Dr. Gee Hee Hong
When: April 15, 2013
Time: 12:00 to 13:00
Location: Loeb Building, Room C-869
FPA Announcements
The Faculty of Public Affairs invites you to the

Annual Year-end Social

April 10, 2013 from 15:00 – 16:30
in the Riverview Boardroom,
2nd Floor, River building

  • Come and wind down the academic year with colleagues and enjoy some light refreshments.
  • Cash bar
  • The annual FPA Excellence Awards will be presented.
  • Fiona Robinson, last year’s FPA Research Excellence Award recipient, will talk about her research directions as we celebrate our Faculty’s research achievements.

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FPA is always on the lookout for books for our display case. If you have written a book or chapter of a book, or edited a book or chapter of a book, that has been published in 2012, send a copy to the Dean’s office so we can include these accomplishments in future editions of This Week@FPA.

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