This Week @ FPA – Sept. 9, 2013
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| Spotlight on … Melissa Haussman | |||
FPA in the news |
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The Huffington Post Canada: Bell Media President Pressured CTV To Provide Favourable Coverage Of Wireless Debate: Prof |
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| Dwayne Winseck says one of the emails reads “Kevin Crull our President wants us to give this report some coverage. It’s a report on phone charges in Canada.””The emails begin by setting out a couple of definitional issues and then distill the two key talking points to be covered: (1) that cellphone rates in Canada have fallen in recent years and (2) that they are generally cheaper than in the U.S.,” Winseck writes. | |||
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Shaamini Yogaretnam: Q&A: Why is the Taser controversial? |
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| Darryl Davies, a criminology professor at Carleton University, wonders why police forces would choose to equip officers with Tasers and why the province is giving permission to increase police arsenals. In the absence of empirical evidence that assaults on officers are on the increase or that there is an increase in violent crime, Davies thinks the province’s decision to expand Taser use had more to do with the lobbying of police unions and chiefs of police than it does the changing needs of law enforcement. | |||
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Laura Ryckewaert: Voluntary census already damaging reliability of statistics, harm is ‘cumulative’ |
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| “The big thing is loss of information,” Prof. Frances Woolley told The Hill Times. “As this policy [a non-mandatory survey] continues, we’re going to be getting further and further away from a point when we ever did have good information about what society looked like. The effect of bad information is cumulative, and it shows up in all kinds of policies.” | |||
FPA in focus |
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 Nick Rowe
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Banks are special because the medium of exchange is special, says Nick Rowe |
| If we used cows as media of exchange (if we bought and sold everything else in exchange for cows), would you say that dairy farming is a special industry that is macroeconomically important?I would. More… | |
 Vivek Dehejia |
Volatility’s the problem |
| In my latest “Marginalia” column (“Fixed or flexible exchange rate?”, BS, September 10), I revisited the classic and as yet unresolved debate between fixed and flexible exchange rates, prompted by the recent hand-wringing of commentators of all stripes on the depreciating rupee. More… |
 Andrew Cohen |
Quebec’s values debate is revealing |
| It may be that the charter of Quebec values never becomes law. It may be that this is a trial balloon, a little late-summer silliness, a taunt, tease or test, with no purpose but provocation. More… |
Spotlight on . . . |
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Book Release – Reproductive Rights and the State
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In the book Reproductive Rights and the State: Getting the Birth Control, RU-486, and Morning-After Pills and the Gardasil Vaccine to the U.S. Market (Praeger, 2013), Melissa Haussman tackles a subject that remains controversial more than 60 years after “the pill” was approved for use in the United States.
FPA Events |
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OD FPAKatherine A.H. Graham Lecture on Aboriginal Policy Author Meets Readers My job at Twitter: #TheBAatWork (Nancy Broden in Conversation with FASS Dean, John Osborne) EconomicsSeminar with Miguel Casares of Universidad Pública de Navarra Seminar with James C. Cox of Georgia State U. EURUSCentre for European Studies – European integration without EU membership: The different paths of Norway and Switzerland Georgia: A Closer Look at its Political Development NPSIAThe Canadian International Council presents: Immigration, Radicalization and Security – The Canadian Scorecard Remembering the Coup: Canada and the Chilean Dictatorship 40 Years Later Political ScienceCanadian Elections and Political Participation: A Symposium in Honor of Jon Pammett Law and Legal StudiesJurisprudence Centre: JurisTalks |
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