Jonathan Kates Earlier this month, Hugh Segal, former Canadian Senator, current Master of Massey College and Ontario’s Special Advisor on Basic Income, released his discussion paper Finding a Better Way: A Basic Income Pilot Project for Ontario. In the paper Mr. Segal recommends that Ontario introduce a three-year randomized control trial pilot to test various…
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The Modern Role of Political Staff
Political staffers, aides, and “exempt staff” are too often maligned in Canadian politics. Neither elected nor independently hired on merit, and with salaries paid by government revenues, they have exclusive access to elected officials at the very heart of decision-making. Despite their reputation as shadowy figures wielding undue power, in reality, staffers perform a plethora of crucial tasks: from coordinating and ensuring delivery on electoral mandates and advising politicians, to communicating political decisions and engaging with stakeholders.
A Canadian Voice that Deserves More than Status Quo
Senator Hugh Segal The challenge of shaping tomorrow’s CBC is, in some ways, the challenge of Canadian excellence and how to advance it in a competitive and digital world. If the CBC was the answer back when the R.B. Bennett Tory government created it many decades ago, what was the question? And, what is the…
The Massey Report: Seeking Unity in a Culture of Differences
This year’s Walter Gordon Symposium is co-hosted by Massey College and the School of Public Policy and Governance, and explores the oft-overlooked subject of public policy in the arts. In the week leading up to the March 26-27 event, the PPGR will be featuring writing on the subject of the arts, cultural policy, and the ‘soft’ power of…
Your Symposium. Your future.
Michael Valpy What protections will the world’s nations put in place to try to protect the planet and its inhabitants from greed, economic recklessness, barbarism and environmental despoliation? What will be — in Plato’s words — the art of measurement that saves our lives? Your student colleagues at SPPG and across the campus at Massey…
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