This Week @ FPA – Mar 11, 2013
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Jane Switzer: Is a journalism degree worth doing? |
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| Some of the more persuasive arguments I’ve heard in favour of j-school come from Melanie Coulson, a senior online editor at the Ottawa Citizen who graduated with a Carleton University Master of Journalism in 1999. The first-ever recipient of the Michener-Deacon Fellowship for Journalism Education, Coulson teaches a third-year undergraduate multimedia course at Carleton. | |||
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Adrian Humphreys: Russian businessman’s 20-year bid to enter Canada spawned top secret spy agency probes, but never citizenship |
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| The rules for Russian officials are changing, said Piotr Dutkiewicz, a leading scholar on Russian politics, who teaches at Carleton University. In the works are laws restricting foreign investments by government officials. A number of parliamentarians have already resigned in anticipation. | |||
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Chris Cobb: Domestic disputes dangerous and difficult for police to handle |
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| Saturday’s shooting death of Const. Steve Dery in the tiny Northern Quebec community of Kuujjuaq is the latest in a long series of cases that highlight how dangerous and unpredictable domestic disputes are for officers serving in remote communities. “These are dangerous situations in which more police officers are killed than any other,” said Carleton University’s Darryl Davies, a specialist in criminal justice and a former Saskatchewan parole officer. | |||
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Question lacked context Re: Tom Flanagan had no reason to apologize |
| Mark Mercer sees no reason for Tom Flanagan to apologize for asking whether those convicted of simply viewing child pornography should be jailed. Apologize he did, however, but only for not choosing his words carefully. But according to Jack Galbraith, there was a greater fault than this, which was to raise an important public policy question as a viewers’ rights issue rather than as a means of deterring child pornography. More… | |
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Downton Abbey enters middle age |
| In season four, there will be new guests, new suitors and new servants, says Andrew Cohen, a professor of journalism and international affairs at Carleton University. The challenge for Fellowes is to rediscover the creative tension and compelling originality, while following all those tributaries flowing from his grand narrative. More of that, please, and less of the histrionics. More… |
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In Latin America, little use for the Chavez brand of socialism |
| The Chavez “model” was all about spending money: on food, education and social services. Producing that money was not really part of the picture, and the whole endeavour would have quickly run empty without Venezuela’s oil wealth. However, according to Jean Daudelin, a Latin American specialist at Carleton’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, as a model for a country that does not have the same riches – and that means just about everyone on the planet – there is not much of use in Mr. Chavez’s version of socialism. More… |
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 Fourth year PAPM student Tamara Nahal has been awarded a Julius Lukasiewicz Award, worth $1,050, for her research on multi-modal transportation in Ottawa. The award goes to a student who has completed a 3000- or 4000-level course in Technology, Society and Environment Studies and is pursuing a research project germane to the relationship between technology, society and the environment. Tamara observes that “While Ottawa has a well-developed public transit system, network of bike paths, multi-use pathways and sidewalks, mobility between these systems—and independently—is structurally prohibitive due to poor linkages. I am focusing my research on how these three areas can be united to promote non-car mobility.” HERE |
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Law & Legal StudiesCritical Law, Gender, and Sexualities Speaker Series NPSIAThe Ambassadors Speakers Series Political EconomyBeyond Extraction: Canada’s development model African StudiesSkype Presentation with Carleton African Studies student currently studying at the U. of Dar es Salaam SPPAEnvironmental Policy and Economics Speaker Series EconomicsBrown Bag Seminar Brown Bag Seminar CESFrom Berlusconi to Monti: Anti-politics and the myth of civil society in Italy after 1989 The European Banking Union – Does Centralization Facilitate the Effective Supervision of Transnational Financial Institutions? |
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Upcoming co-op information sessionsAre you thinking about applying to co-op? Or have you already applied and want to know the next steps? Co-op and Career Services staff will answer questions about admission, eligibility and work-study patterns. Hear from current co-op students about their different work experiences. Visit HERE for a complete list of co-op eligible programs. To attend, students must register using myCareer via Carleton Central. Look for ‘Co-op Information Sessions’ in the Workshop/Events calendar.
TW@FPA is now weeklyThere will be no TW@FPA during reading week – the next issue will be delivered Mar 18, 2013.
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