This Week @ FPA – Mar 4, 2013
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| Monday, March 4, 2013 |  |
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| Spotlight on … Tatiana Nesviginsky | |||
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Juan O. Tamayo: Five years later: Cuba under Raúl: He’s tinkered but it’s the same old machine |
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| “I am surprised at how fast Raúl has moved, in the context of the previous half-century” added Archibald Ritter, an economist at Carleton University in Ottawa who runs the blog The Cuban Economy. | |||
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Tom Barrett: Amazing Comebacks Christy Clark Hopes to Emulate: Four election shockers that keep BC’s New Dems up at night. |
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| Time bends polls says André Turcotte, a professor at Carleton University who has worked for the Gallup Poll and polled for the federal Liberal Party and the Reform Party, who also argues that polls tend to be more accurate near the end of a campaign | |||
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Murray Brewster: Canadian military losing as much ‘teeth’ as ‘tail’ in budget cuts, expert says |
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| “The pace of reduction during this round of austerity started three years ago, is roughly comparable to what it was in the early 90s,” said Dave Perry, a defence researcher at Carleton University and the Conference of Defence Associations. | |||
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Why The Labor Supply Curve Now Bends Backward For Men |
| According to Economics Professor Frances Woolley, students are often skeptical about the existence of backwards bending labour supply curves, and regard them as just another one of those weird things profs put on exams to trip people up. Yet a number of studies have found that male labour supply curves bend backwards, especially those of married men already in the labour market. More… | |
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Duffy’s journey from reporter to Conservative good ol’ boy |
| Andrew Cohen talks about Mike Duffy’s who was ” … a journalist for decades. He was a prominent national correspondent for the CBC. He had his own show on CTV. He won accolades, awards and honorary degrees.” But he also wanted, badly, to one day be a senator. More… |
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Dowry: Managing Africa’s Many Lovers |
| In a keynote lecture, Pius Adesanmi, winner of the Penguin Prize for African Writing at the annual conference of the African Studies Course Union, says: “Anyway, I am not complaining. I am just drawing your attention to the uncanny coincidence that I am delivering a lecture about love and lovers – Africa’s surfeit of lovers and the implications of that love affair for the Black Diaspora – only a day after the feast of love.” More… |
Spotlight on . . . |
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 Carleton University awarded master’s student Tatiana Nesviginskywith the first Graduate Co-op Student of the Year Award. The International Affairs major worked at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade as a co-op student for one year.
Working for the International Scholarships Program in the International Education and Youth Division, Nesviginsky was assigned the monumental task of working on the templates for grant and contribution agreements and had to learn the complex end-to-end process of creating legally binding agreements for use by DFAIT to award scholarship funds to Canadian colleges, universities and researchers.more HERE |
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