This Week @ FPA – July 16, 2012
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| Spotlight on … Trevor Findlay | |||
FPA in the news |
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Jonathan Malloy: Senate reform bill still stuck in House |
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| Recently, Political Science Professor Jonathan Malloy talked to Hill Times about Senate reform and the possible unexpected consequences this most-recent bill, if ever passed, would have on Canadian politics. | |||
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Frances Woolley: Canada’s growing workplace absenteeism |
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| It’s called the “bliss point” – the potent combination of sun, wind and temperature that lures employees away from their desks and outside into the summer weather, and in a recent Globe and Mail article, Frances Woolley talks about Canada’s growing absenteeism at work. | |||
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Edward Jackson: Fantino succeeds Oda as minister |
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| After Fantino takes over for the now-departed Bev Oda, SPPA associate professor Edward Jackson said the key will be whether Fantino will be open to advice and input from staff at the Canadian International Development Agency. | |||
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FPA in focus |
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Gagnon’s summer publication hat trick on the pharma industry |
| Network Fellow Marc-André Gagnon published three papers on diverse forms of institutional corruption in the pharmaceutical industry and is featured in the July 2012 issue of Prescrire International for his latest works on the institutional corruption of medical research. His recent publications also include an analysis of the costs and benefits of public financial subsidy to the pharmaceutical sector in Quebec. More | |
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Old-style politics returns to Mexico |
| Laura Macdonald, Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Political Economy, writes in Citizen about outcome of Mexican election. In an about face, the PRI candidate is now poised to return to the Mexican White House 12 years after Mexicans voted in democratic elections to turf out the corrupt, authoritarian Institutional Revolutionary Party. More |
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Misplaced outrage |
| Derek Burney and Fen Hampson address criticisms of their recent report on Canada-U.S. relationship. Mr. Burney, a Senior Research Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute and a Visiting Professor and Senior Distinguished Fellow at Carleton University and NPSIA Professor and Director Fen Hampson, provide interesting insight on Canada-U.S. relations with the rose-coloured filters removed in iPolitics. More |
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Spotlight on . . . |
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 An important report – Unleashing the Nuclear Watchdog: Strengthening and Reform of the IAEA – the culmination of two-year research project that examined all aspects of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mandate and operations, was presented to the Carleton University community by the author of the report Trevor Findlay – Chair of the William and Jeanie Barton Chair in International Affairs, Director of the Canadian Centre for Treaty Compliance (CCTC), and Professor of International Affairs at Carleton University. Trevor Findlay is also a CIGI Senior Fellow and he makes multiple recommendations, both strategic and programmatic, for strengthening and reform of the IAEA. More |
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FPA Events |
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SPPAPhD Brown Bag Lecture Series: Poverty Amongst Plenty: Waiting for the Yukon Government to Adopt a Poverty Reduction Strategy. EURUSBrown Bag Lecture Series: European Integration in Post-Soviet Eurasia: A Contribution to Regional Stability? |
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FPA Announcements |
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FPA Reads 2012Following an exciting round of nominations, shortlisting and voting on the finalists, the FPA community of students, staff, and faculty selected Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell as the inaugural title for FPA Reads 2012. There will be a screening the movie – 1984 with John hurt and Richard Burton – September 12 at the Mayfair with a panel discussion, moderated by Evan Solomon, on September 19 – save these dates and tell your friends! Click here to follow the events coming up in the Fall of 2012 and to get your free e-book copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four. PAnorama needs your assistanceThe new issue of PAnorama magazine will be out in late October, but we’re looking for help on two articles. Please contact us about these two subjects:
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