This Week @ FPA – November 5 2012
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| Spotlight on … Marc-André Gagnon | |||
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Peter O’Neil: Deal with China triggers public concern, lawyer’s warning; Treaty could cost Canada billions if B.C. blocks Northern Gateway project |
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| Despite the dire warnings, Michael Hart, founder of Carleton University’s Centre for Trade Policy and Law, Simon Reisman Chair in Trade Policy and Professor of International Affairs, said Canada is a winner in a deal that won’t have a dramatic overall impact. “Most criticisms of FIPAs is that they don’t really do much,” says Hart. | |||
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Bill Graveland: Oil And Gas Canada: Canadians Have Trust Issues With These Companies, A National Poll States |
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| The survey found that academics were considered the most trustworthy, with a score of 6.13 out of 10. Environmental groups and activists were at 5.33, while federal and provincial governments scored in the 4.3 range.” Oil and gas companies rated at the bottom at 3.11. “If you get a rating of 3.1, you’re way down there in terms of credibility — you’re with used-car salesmen and lawyers and others that people don’t really trust,” said André Turcotte, an associate professor at Carleton University’s School of Journalism. | |||
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Niamh Scallan: Bay Street law firm uses fingerprint technology to monitor employees’ comings and goings |
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| Carleton University law professor Michael MacNeil, who specializes in legal issues surrounding privacy and surveillance, said the fingerprinting system is just one example of the way workplaces are using technology to monitor and maximize productivity. | |||
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Cuban Missile Crisis: Leaders’ personal qualities saved world from disaster |
| Three days after President John F. Kennedy learned that the Soviets were placing nuclear missiles in Cuba in October 1962, he had a tense meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They resented that the president had responded with a blockade of the island – ordering American warships to intercept and turn back Soviet ships carrying more missiles. They urged him to strike immediately. Instead, they chose reason and reserve – and saved the world, according to Andrew Cohen, founding president of the Historica-Dominion Institute, and professor of journalism and international affairs at Carleton University. More… | |
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Is India’s Rising Billionaire Wealth Bad for the Country? |
| The strength and direction of the Indian economy may be up for debate, but one remarkable fact is not: There has been massive growth in the number and wealth of billionaires in India since the economic liberalization measures in 1991. Vivek Dehejia is an economics professor at Carleton University and a writer and commentator on India. More… |
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Free enterprise meets free speech in B.C. |
| Courage is a rare thing in politics according to Emile Scheffel, on leave from studies at the UBC Faculty of Law and currently enrolled in the Clayton H. Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management at Carleton. “But there are encouraging exceptions to this rule, and I witnessed one this past weekend in the snowy mountain town of Whistler, B.C.” More… |
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Spotlight on . . . |
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 Marc-André Gagnon was recently interviewed by Canal Savoir, on a television show titled “Les Publications Universitaires,” to discuss patent rights in the pharmaceutical sector. In this 30 minutes French interview, he explains how the patent system can be excellent for the pharmaceutical business, but it created a crisis in terms of therapeutic innovation. How can we explain that profitability increases in this sector while therapeutic innovation is decreasing? More… |
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NPSIADiscussion Panel: U.S. Presidential Election and Canada-U.S. Relations SPPAIssues of Contemporary Governance: So Near Yet So Far – The Public and Hidden Worlds of Canada-US Relations Alumni2012 AD Dunton Alumni Award of Distinction Presentation to Dave Carroll CommunicationsSpeaker Series: Reflections on the 2012 Quebec Students’ Movement CCISSConversing with the Adversary: Interviews with Failed Suicide Bombers and Their Dispatchers CSERCSWITCH: An Exploration of our Global Energy Future African StudiesCanada and an ‘Awakened’ Africa: Foreign Policy and Decolonization EconomicsDepartmental Seminar EURUSWork, Autonomy, and the Problem of Left Nostalgia in Russia |
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