Shannon Brooks On the day after Halloween, the city of Paris buzzed with the air of school holidays and a national holiday (All Saints’ Day) for workers. There’s a clear divide between North American countries and European countries like France in terms of the emphasis they place on leisure, and their investment in social well-being….
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The Grass is Greener on the Other Side: How Canada has Failed the International Community and Indigenous Peoples
Shannon Brooks An old Apache Proverb states, “It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.” This “all talk, no action” adage explains Canada’s failure on numerous environmental commitments, an especially salient issue in light of the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference. The media’s focus has been…
C’est Chic: Paris’ New and Improved Affordable Housing Strategy
Brynne Moore In what is being described as one of the most radical proposals that Europe has ever seen, Paris is redesigning the way that cities can offer affordable housing in the future. In June of 2015, Paris city officials allocated three new pre-existing mixed-income buildings to French social housing, in the first and eighth…
Out on the Streets: Homelessness in Canada and France
The ‘Public Policy and Governance Review Abroad’, or PPGR Abroad, is a new initiative for 2014. Undertaken in collaborative with exchange students from the Master of Public Policy program at the School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto, it will featured policy insights and analyses direct from Berlin and Paris. Margaret Campbell It doesn’t…
The New Grands Projets: Community-Building and Green Infrastructure
The ‘Public Policy and Governance Review Abroad’, or PPGR Abroad, is a new initiative for 2014. Undertaken in collaborative with exchange students from the Master of Public Policy program at the School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto, it will featured policy insights and analyses direct from Berlin and Paris. Sarah Wilson Place de…
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