This Week @ FPA – February 4, 2013
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| Spotlight on … Piotr Dutkiewicz | |||
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David Ellis: Voltage VS TekSavvy: Privacy Isn’t Our Only Worry |
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| Piracy is a lot like religion and politics. It tends to polarize opinion and get in the way of finding common ground for thoughtful discussion. That’s the pattern we’ve seen in Voltage Pictures’ demand for information from TekSavvy about putative pirating of their movies. Dwayne Winseck of Carleton University has disagreed with me over many aspects of the Voltage case, although in his latest post he compares TekSavvy’s approach pretty favorably to what other ISPs have done. | |||
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Jane Caulfield: Need work? Female? How about a job in the Sask. legislature? |
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| “It’s been encouraging that we now see more women that are leading their parties…which does help other women because it does show them role models,” said Clare Beckton, Executive Director of the Centre for Women in Politics and Public Leadership at Carleton University. | |||
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Lee Berthiaume: Canada concerned about Saudi Arabia’s nuclear intentions |
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| Canadian officials have expressed private concerns about Saudi Arabia’s nuclear intentions, repeating in internal documents their fears that the Persian Gulf state could try to acquire atomic weapons if Iran managed to acquire the bomb. Trevor Findlay, Director, Canadian Centre for Treaty Compliance (CCTC) and Professor of International Affairs, said Saudi Arabia presents a “tricky” case for Canada and other nuclear-exporting countries because of questions about its intentions. “Every country struggles with this, and where they find the balance is sometimes different,” Findlay said. “It’s a balance.” | |||
FPA in focus |
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A shallow Liberal pool |
| This Saturday, in Winnipeg, the Liberal Party of Canada holds its second leadership debate. There is no reason to think that this one will be any more useful than the debate in Vancouver, says Andrew Cohen. That’s what happens when bald men (and women) fight over a comb. If the candidates are the weakest in the party’s history, it’s because the party is the weakest in its history. The leadership is less a prize than a prospect. More… | |
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On Bell-Astral merger, the CRTC should take its time |
| A few weeks back, BCE indicated that it had hoped the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission might give its resurrected bid to take-over Astral Media special fast-track treatment, “abbreviated hearings” as it called them. The CRTC should hold off for a while before doing anything at all, because the tools the regulator will rely on to assess the transaction are not up to the task says Dwayne Winseck, a communications professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton. More… |
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Foreign correspondent Fisk talks Harper’s foreign policy and the Arab Awakening |
| Veteran British journalist offers a reminder that foreign policy has always had more to do with circumstance and convenience than with conviction says Steven Zhou, a second-year master’s student at Carleton’s School of Journalism and Communications. Veteran British foreign correspondent Robert Fisk criticized the Harper government’s policy on the Middle East at a public lecture Jan. 22 in Ottawa. More… |
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Book Release: New Technologies in Public Administration as Reflected by Canadian and Russian ExperienceThis book, co-edited by EURUS Professor Piotr Dutkiewicz and Andrei Margolin, is based on some of the original work done by Chris Stoney and Les Pal and many materials that were prepared by Russian-Canadian Governance Advisory and Exchange Program (GAEP) Project. The launch for this publication took place in Moscow on January 24th, 2013 with the presence of the H.E. Canadian Ambassador, representatives from the Russian Presidential Administration, media and the academic community. The Centre for Governance and Public Management (CGPM) has been working closely with our Russian partners (particularly Professor Andrei Margolin at the Moscow Metropolitan Governance University) to deliver this textbook. More… |
FPA Events |
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Institute Of African StudiesDemocratization in Senegal: The “Sopi” Revolution and Beyond. Poli SciPolitical Science Speaker Series Lecture Empathy and Political Preferences: Why “fellow feeling” leads to left-wing partisanship and policy preferences CESWorkshop: Public Attitudes and Environmental Policy in Canada and Europe EconomicsMortality reductions, educational attainment, and fertility choice (an article by Rodrigo Soares, American Economic Review, Vol. 95, No. 3 (June 2005), pp. 580–601) |
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FPA Reads need your input!FPA Reads has shortlisted the following four books for FPA Reads 2013. Now we want you to choose which book we’ll go with. Click HERE to see the four books and for a link to vote.
Three Minute Thesis (3MT) goes on March 26-27, 2013!There will be an Information Session for all interested participants on Feb. 11 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in 2017 Dunton Tower. Go HERE for more information
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