This Week @ FPA – Sept. 16, 2013
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Tobi Cohen: Quebec values charter puts federal NDP in tough spot with English Canada |
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| Bruce Hicks, a Quebec political scientist now at Carleton University in Ottawa, argues the idea of a values charter is very much tied to Quebec nationalism and that the NDP even has one-time nationalists and sympathizers in its ranks. He believes Mulcair has been “relatively judicious” in his comments for fear of losing support in rural Quebec should he end up on the “wrong side” of a “very partisan issue.” | |||
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Don Butler: Wrestling with the minimum wage: Ontario Chamber of Commerce favours regular cost-of-living increases in new paper |
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| Christopher Worswick, an economics professor at Carleton University, thinks the current minimum wage is “at a reasonable level” and doesn’t see a compelling reason to raise it significantly. “My concern would be job loss,” he said. | |||
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Amy Dempsey: Rob Ford offered 14 chances to comment on crack story, Toronto Star tells press council |
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| Christopher Waddell, director of Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication in Ottawa, has been following coverage of the Ford brothers’ drug allegations closely and said the circumstances surrounding the Monday press council hearings seemed “a little strange.” Waddell continues: “This is a little bit of a curious case in that the people who you would think would have the main reason to be complaining don’t appear to be complaining,” he said. | |||
FPA in focus |
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 Nduka Otiono |
Our archiving system is poor |
| I have not been able to gain access to most materials that I need because of our attitude to archiving. I had a discussion with a colleague about how to access some of the things that we have published in the past at the Post Express. But I found that it was difficult to get them in the absence of an archive. More… | |
 John Higginbotham |
Suez Canal in the Crosshairs |
| The global trading and international policy communities need to pause and reflect on the consequences of a successful armed attack on the Suez Canal, a critical artery of world trade. The probability is low, but the impact very high. The canal, of course, provides a vital and efficient maritime shortcut between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans and has become a foundation of the world economy. More… |
 Andrew Cohen |
Assad’s sins will catch up with him eventually |
| Because the foremost instinct of dictators is to refuse to leave, we can imagine a bad end for Bashar al-Assad, the President of Syria, who has brought all manner of horrors upon his people. He faces the same fate as those other strutting strongmen who didn’t cut a deal to walk away when they could. More… |
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This is a speaker’s series featuring authors from the Faculty of Public Affairs talking about their intriguing books and answering questions. This month, Author Meets Readers features Melissa Haussman’s “Reproductive Rights and the State” that tackles a subject that remains controversial more than 60 years after “the pill” was approved for use in the United States.
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