This Week @ FPA – October 29 2012
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| Spotlight on … Roy Hanes | |||
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Mike De Souza: Canada missing out on green revolution, panel says; Reducing emissions a major growth sector |
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| Canadian economy will miss out on a booming market of green goods and services worth trillions of dollars if governments fail to steer away from foolish energy and climate change policies, says a new report. “There’s huge potential here,” said Robert Slater, an adjunct professor of environmental policy at Carleton University. “There’s a very substantial business growing at a very fast rate compared to the overall economy. | |||
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Ishani Nath: Planning for a public-sector career? Numbers look good |
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| “For younger students, the demographics [in the public sector] are really looking in their favour,” says Susan Phillips, the director of Carleton University’s School of Public Policy and Administration. “Despite recent budget cuts, the public sector still offers numerous opportunities with high entry-level salaries, a professional work environment and the potential for job growth.” | |||
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Irina Filatovan: Economy Is Focal Point for Putin’s Foreign Expert Club |
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| “The problem of reducing Russia’s dependency on natural resources was dwelled on during Putin’s meeting with members of the Valdai Club, which was founded in 2004 to facilitate dialogue between Russia and foreign experts.” The club members suggested four possible scenarios for the country’s economic development, which are based on two groups of factors, according Piotr Dutkiewicz, director of the Center for Governance and Public Policy at Carleton University. | |||
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McGuinty has every right to prorogue. |
| According to Nicholas A. MacDonald, a graduate of the Riddell Political Management Program at Carleton University and his writing partner James W.J. Bowden, the recent prorogation of the Ontario Legislature was both constitutional and legitimate. This was not an “abuse” of power, but the mere use of a tool at a first minister’s disposal. The two are co-authors of “No Discretion: On Prorogation and the Governor General.” More… | |
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Prorogation is an unnecessary abuse of Ontario Premier’s power. |
| Lori Turnbull, a visiting scholar at Carleton University and an Associate Professor of political science at Dalhousie University, believes that, “…too often, first ministers make strategic requests for prorogation that are designed to silence a legislature when it suits them and prevent it from performing its scrutiny function.” More… |
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Remembering George McGovern |
| Colin Robertson, Vice President and Senior Research Fellow at the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, looks back at McGovern’s Democratic presidential candidacy in 1972 and his Canadian connection. More… |
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Spotlight on . . . |
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 Roy Hanes, an associate professor in Carleton’s School of Social Work, recently presented a paper at the United Nations during a conference of state parties. He was invited by the World Disability Union as part of the fifth anniversary celebration of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CPRD).Disability advocates and researchers representing 119 member states which have ratified the CRPD were in attendance. The topic of Hanes’ paper was Exploring the Social Construction of Disability in a Cross Cultural Context. More… |
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FPA Events |
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CCISS“Conversing with the Adversary: Interviews with Failed Suicide Bombers and Their Dispatchers” EconomicsLarge Shareholders, Monitoring, and Ownership Dynamics: Toward Pure Managerial Firms? Eurus“The Future is Being Made Today: Scenarios for Russia’s Economic Development, A Conversation with Piotr Dutkiewicz” “Russia in the 21st Century: Historical Legacies, Present Challenges and Future Outlook”Date: November 02, 2012″ Law & Legal StudiesThe differential protection of the right to equal treatment for religious minorities in comparison to ethnic minorities: international legal perspectives SPPAThe Mackenzie: Canada’s Cold Amazon MetropolisPost-Breivik Reflections: Norwegian Multicultural Debates in European and Scandinavian Comparative Perspectives |
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