This Week @ FPA – July 8, 2013
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| Spotlight on … Yiagadeesen Samy | |||
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Karen Seidman: Despite low tuition, Quebecers aren’t leaders in degree attainment |
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| Bruce Hicks, a political science professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, who once taught at Concordia University, said Quebec must overcome some generational and cultural hurdles before it can boost its numbers. “The single largest determinant to going to university is whether or not your parents have gone,” he said in an interview. | |||
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Lindsey Addawoo, Anna Mehler Paperny and Leslie Young: Canadian women studying more, still earning less |
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| “But women remain confined to narrow areas of the working world: Overwhelmingly, they’re in child care, retail, nursing, administrative assistance; men dominate in trucking, carpentry, welding,” said Carleton University economist Frances Woolley. “Women who enter the workforce now see more opportunities. They have this message of ’I can do anything’, then they realize they can’t do everything.” | |||
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Akshaya Mishra: Origins of feku: If they weren’t around, we would invent them |
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| “In the fiercely competitive media environment, as in India or US, which places a heavy premium on sounding and looking confident while pontificating, accentuates the tilt towards the hedgehogs,” say Vivek Dehejia, professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and Rupa Subramanya, an economics journalist, in their book Indianomix – Making Sense of Modern India. | |||
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 Marc-Andre Gagnon |
What My Critics Don’t Get About Drug Policy |
| It is always a pleasure for me to openly discuss and debate issues surrounding drug coverage with experts in the field. In a series of three blogs, an economist from the Montreal Economic Institute, Yanick Labrie, criticizes my work on Canadian pharmaceutical policy. Unfortunately, these criticisms are ill-founded and do not contribute to a better understanding of these issues: More… | |
 Paul Adams |
Could rising inequality be good for the NDP? |
| It must be a measure of something profound that nowadays we no longer get analysis pieces on ‘Whither the NDP.’ Instead, we get: ‘Why can’t Thomas Mulcair break through?’ More… |
 Andrew Cohen |
A society loses its rules |
| In the opening moments of his speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin the other day, Barack Obama sounded like he was appearing on a late-night talk show. “Hello Berlin!” he declared chirpily. He called the Chancellor of Germany “Angela.” He took off his jacket so “we can be a little more informal among friends.” More… |
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Canada-Africa Relations: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
In this edition, edited by Rohinton Medhora and Yiagadeesen Samy, contributors explore Canada and Africa’s rich history, taking stock of what has been accomplished. This volume offers recommendations for a more strategically beneficial Canada-Africa partnership in areas including trade and investment, democracy and nation building, development aid, governance, corporate social responsibility — especially in the natural resource sector where Canadian firms are heavily invested — and regional security. |
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