Stephanie Mitton, principal and founder of Beacon North Strategies, hosts a free virtual introduction to advocacy event, “Introduction to Advocacy: Starting Your Journey.” Explore the ways in which you can make your voice heard and effect change on issues you care about. Register online.
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute, the Embassy of Ukraine, and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights will host a webinar, “Holding The Kremlin To Account” discussing on the need to hold the Russian government to account for its actions, and how Ukraine, Canada and its Baltic allies can forge a path towards justice and accountability. Details online.
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute hosts a webinar, “New tools or new competitors? The future of competition law in Canada”. A panel of experts will discuss whether Canadian competition policy need a fundamental overhaul or just an update? Are new regulatory tools required or should we look to an untapped source of additional competition from outside our borders? This event will … Read more
Queen’s University hosts “Alright, Now What? Centring Gender Justice in the Pandemic Recovery,” a lecutre featuring Paulette Senior, president and CEO of the Canadian Women’s Foundation, who will address key policy lessons learned during the pandemic and discuss how we can use these lessons to recover and “shock-proof’ the country against future crises. This event will take … Read more
McGill University hosts a webinar, “The Russo-Ukrainian War, a Year Later”. McGill University professor Maria Popova will discuss how did we perceive this war a year ago when it started and how do we see it now? What is the outlook for an end to the war? How has Western support for Ukraine evolved and how is … Read more
McGill University hosts a webinar, “Blood and Soil: The Far Right in Canada”. On Feb. 23, 2022, the federal government revoked the state of emergency that had been declared due to the convoy protests in Ottawa. On this first anniversary, Carleton University professor Stephanie Carvin will deliver remarks on the far right movement in Canada, online extremism, national security, … Read more
Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux will post a new legislative costing note entitled “A Tax on Share Buyback” on the website. Call 613-240-7019.
Heritage Ottawa hosts a webinar, “Rehabilitating the West Memorial Building: Conservation in Practice at Wellington Street’s Western Gateway.” Completed in 1958, the West Memorial Building is western gateway to Wellington Street and the Judicial and Parliamentary Precincts. Architect Heather McArthur will situate the building’s onging full-scale rehabilitation within the context of the ensemble’s original design intent and significance to the … Read more
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business’s Red Tape Awareness Week will take place Jan. 30-Feb. 3. This year will focus on how regulatory modernization can improve Canadians’ lives. Details online. Call 647-464-2814.
Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam will take part in a webinar, “Public Health System Transformation to Mobilize Research and Innovation on Climate Change,” hosted by the Canadian Public Health Association and the Public Health Physicians of Canada. Dr. Tam will identify the need to generate new knowledge and evidence to inform and guide public health action on … Read more
