Ukrainian Canadian Congress CEO and Executive Director Ihor Michalchyshyn will present the results of the UCC Party Leaders Survey ahead of the 2019 federal election in Canada. The UCC is the voice of Canada’s Ukrainian community. The Congress brings together under one umbrella all the national, provincial and local Ukrainian Canadian organizations. This event will take place … Read more
Members of the autism community will call on all federal political parties to commit to a National Autism Strategy that is covered by Canada’s public health insurance system in every province and territory. Speakers will include Jamie Peddle, Andrew Kavchak and other activists from the autism community. The press conference will take place in Room 135-B, West … Read more
Five national associations have joined forces to organize a “National Housing Debate,” featuring Liberal Party candidate Adam Vaughan (Spadina-Fort York, Ont.), Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre (Carleton, Ont.), NDP candidate Angella MacEwen (Ottawa West-Nepean, Ont.), Bloc Québecois Geneviève Nadeau (Gatineau, Que.) and Green Party candidate Angela Keller-Herzog (Ottawa Centre, Ont.). The debate will be moderated by La Presse … Read more
iAffairs, the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs co-host “Glorious and Free? Making sense of Canadian foreign policy in an era of nationalism, populism and illiberalism,” taking a critical look at the foreign policy record of the current government whilst assessing Canada’s place moving forward as an actor on the global … Read more
The Canadian International Council hosts a lecture on “China’s Kaleidoscope: Relations With Canada and The World” featuring former Canadian Ambassador to China (2012-2016) Guy Saint-Jacques. This event will take place at the Hilton Garden Inn Ottawa Downtown, 361 Queen St. Details online.
The CIC National Capital Branch’s Asia Pacific Study Group hosts its first event of the season: “On-The-Ground Perspective On The Protests In Hong Kong” featuring Alejandro Reyes, a director and associate professor at the Asia Global Institute of the University of Hong Kong and former senior policy advisor at Global Affairs Canada in Ottawa. This event will take … Read more
uOttawa hosts a lecture on “Strategic Discrimination in Politics.” Regina Bateson, visiting professor at uOttawa’s Faculty of Law, and Joanne St. Lewis, law professor at uOttawa, will explore the notion of strategic discrimination and how it could be contributing to why women and people of colour underrepresented in politics. Experimental evidence suggests that strategic discrimination is influencing U.S. politics. Is the … Read more
Carleton University’s Department of Political Science hosts a disucssion on “Canada at the Polls 2019: A New Mandate?” Dr. Jon Pammett and Dr. Lawrence LeDuc, two co-authors of Absent Mandate: Strategies and Choices in Canadian Elections, will discuss the 2019 election: what we can expect to see? Has anything really changed since elections back in 1965? And … Read more
The C.D. Howe Institute hosts “2019 Post-election Analysis: Policy Priorities for Canada’s Federal Government.” The institute’s own in-house experts will discuss Canada’s current policy challenges, potential directions of the government, and implications for our economic dynamism and Canadians’ living standards. Panelists include Glen Hodgson, Senior Fellow; Alexandre Laurin, Director of Research; and Parisa Mahboubi, Senior Policy Analyst. … Read more
Rod Giltaca, CEO & Executive Director of the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights, will speak at a press conference in Room 135-B, West Block, Parliament Hill. Call 613-816-0997.
