This Week @ FPA – November 12 2012
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| Monday, November 12, 2012 |  |
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| Spotlight on … David Carment | |||
FPA in the news |
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The Week With Mark Sutcliffe |
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| The panel for the show that aired on November 4, 2012 was Elizabeth Thompson, senior writer for iPolitics.ca and Andrew Cohen, author, columnist and professor at Carleton University – School of Journalism. They talk about the China-Canada investment treaty, the U.S. Presidential election, and “the Trudeau effect.” | |||
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Michael Doyle: The 2012 NYC Marathon: How not to handle a crisis |
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| Josh Greenberg, an avid runner and associate professor in communication studies at Carleton, kept a close eye on superstorm Sandy and the marathon cancellation. He will be using the marathon debacle as a case study for upcoming classes. | |||
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Économie et affaires: Un projet de raffinerie |
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| Un projet de raffinerie de 5,7 milliards de dollars de Canadian Natural Resources Ltd et de North West Upgrading va de l’avant dans la région d’Edmonton. Est-ce avantageux pour le gouvernement? L’économiste André Plourde, doyen de la faculté des affaires publiques de l’Université Carleton. | |||
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FPA in focus |
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Obama promises a return to prosperity |
| Robert I. Rotberg is Fulbright Research Chair this term in Carleton’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and is also the founding director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict and president emeritus of the World Peace Foundation. He talks about Obama’s plan belief in re-stimulating the weak economy of the U.S. by creating a massive public works program that will put people back to work in great numbers, reflate the U.S. and pull Canada and the rest of the world along with it. More… | |
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Canada should borrow Australia’s Asian plan |
| Derek Burney, a former Canadian Ambassador to the United States and a visiting professor and senior distinguished fellow at Carleton and Fen Hampson, distinguished fellow and director of the global security program and chancellor’s professor with NPSIA, think that Harper should look closely at Australia, our Commonwealth cousin, which has become the poster child among the world’s advanced industrial economies on how to engage with Asia. More… |
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The virtues of cold; Why I’m looking forward to winter’s chill |
| Brian Platt, a master of journalism student at Carleton University, yearns for a real winter. “This is a big deal for me. After growing up on the Prairies, I haven’t lived in a place that experiences a real winter for seven years. I’ve spent six of those in Vancouver and another year in Amsterdam.” More… |
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