FPA in the news
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| In a recent opinion piece published in the National Post, I defended the thesis that adopting a national public pharmacare program in Canada would be misguided and counterproductive. My thesis was subsequently challenged by Marc-André Gagnon, assistant professor at Carleton University. |
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| However, as Carleton University professor Martin Rudner notes in a 2007 essay, the CSE is “expressly prohibited from activities directed against Canadians or any person in Canada.” Nor can the agency use its international alliances “to circumvent the laws of Canada, or share intelligence products with allies that they could not otherwise collect lawfully for themselves.” |
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| Mark O’Neill says people are astounded when he tells them the first 911 service call in Ottawa was made in 1988, which was long after most major urban centres in North America had adopted similar programs. Better known today as the president and chief executive of the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation, O’Neill was a 21-year-old political science student at Carleton University when he became instrumental in a grassroots effort to bring an integrated emergency response system to the region. |
FPA in focus
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‘Visible minority:’ A misleading concept that ought to be retired |
| “In Canada, anyone who considers themself neither white nor aboriginal is classified by the government, for a number of purposes, as a visible minority. It is an artificial concept that has become unnecessary and counterproductive,” says Frances Woolley in an Ottawa Citizen article. More… |
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How a national drug plan would benefit Canada |
| “Canada is one of the world’s most expensive countries when it comes to prescription drugs. Per capita, prescription drug costs are on average 50 per cent higher in Canada and had the fastest yearly growth in the last decade than in other developed countries. Why is this the case,” asks SPPA prof Marc-André Gagnon in this troymedia.com article. More… |
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Politicians in the pillory |
| “It’s open season on politicians. The crescendo of criticism against those who hold elected office is now deafening and definitive: politicians are congenitally venal, vacuous, vainglorious, parochial, arrogant, unprincipled and greedy,” is how Andrew Cohen starts his Ottawa Citizen column. More… |
Spotlight on . . .
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A study about the politics of party leadership won the Donald Smiley Prize for the best book about government and politics in Canada. It was awarded to Carleton University’s William P. Cross, and André Blais from the University of Montreal. They are co-authors of Politics at the Centre: The Selection and Removal of Party Leaders in the Anglo Parliamentary Democracies, which draws on four decades of material from 25 political parties in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland.
“The book gives great insight about where Canadian parties are heading in their leadership selection and de-selection practices,” observes the jury.
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FPA Announcements
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Got Books?
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.
TW@FPA is now bi-weekly
The next issue of TW@FPA will be delivered July 8, 2013. |
