This Week @ FPA – May 13, 2013
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| Spotlight on … Chris Waddell | |||
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Shelley Page: Can the paywall save Canadian newspapers? |
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| Christopher Waddell, director of Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication in Ottawa, recalls the Monday last October when the Globe and Mail announced its plan to erect a paywall. After his fourth-year students shuffled into the lecture hall for an 8:30 a.m. state of the media class, he called their attention to a statement posted on the Globe’s website, which he had projected onto a large screen. | |||
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Althia Raj: Stephen Harper To Skip Commonwealth Meeting In Sri Lanka, Citing Human Rights Abuses |
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| David Carment, a professor of international affairs and a fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, said Harper’s decision to boycott the event is an effort to get the Tamil community — which has historically voted Liberal — on side. “I don’t think it has much to do with a principled foreign policy that the government claims to be advancing here,” Carment said. “This is pretty much pandering to a domestic audience.” |
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Michael Woods: New national data on aboriginals may highlight education shortfall |
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| “What stops them from getting the jobs is usually education,” said Frances Abele, a professor of public policy and administration at Carleton University. “The federal government has been a bit slow in figuring out how to improve access to post-secondary education for young people living outside metropolitan centres in Canada.” | |||
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The real moral failure in the food security Bill debate |
| This past Monday, Economics Nobel laureate Amartya Sen blamed the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for stalling the National Food Security Bill by disrupting proceedings in Parliament. Not passing the Bill, Sen argued, would be “immoral,” writes economics professor Vivek Dehejia in a recent article in SmartInvestor.in. More… | |
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How employment equity will take a hit from dodgy national data |
| In a recent Globe & Mail article, Frances Woolley writes: “A comparison of the 2006 census and the 2011 National Household Survey suggests a person’s ethnic and cultural background affected his or her willingness to complete the NHS, calling into question the reliability of NHS results on ethnicity.” More… |
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Canada’s museums could learn from Greece |
| Carleton journalism prof Andrew Cohen thinks the Greeks (and others) take their museums, and perhaps heritage, more seriously. “There is no debate about it. Museums in self-conscious countries are viewed in the same way as schools, parks, libraries, hospitals, even trains. Like education, recreation and transportation, they are an obligation of the state. At their best, museums are an admirable expression of democracy. They are about openness and knowledge. They are dominions of the mind, of whimsy, serendipity and enchantment.” More… |
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