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May 02, 2006
Conservatives unveil budget
The federal Conservatives will bring down a budget today which experts say will be big on tax relief, including a cut in the GST. SFU faculty members who can look at what the budget will mean to taxpayers include:
Lindsay Meredith, business, 604.291.5554, lindsay_meredith@sfu.ca; budget implications, political strategy
Jonathan Kesselman, public policy program (Canada Research Chair in public finance), jon_kesselman@sfu.ca; 604. 264.9812; GST, tax cuts
Patrick Smith, 604.291.1544 (h); psmith@sfu.ca; political strategy, party image
Mark Jaccard, resource and environmental management, 604.291.4219; energy issues
Andrew Wister, gerontology, 604.291.5044; andrew_wister@sfu.ca, issues affecting seniors
Segal Graduate School of Business opens
SFU officially opens its Segal Graduate School of Business in a restored and renovated heritage bank building at 500 Granville St. (corner of Granville and Pender), Friday, May 5, at 10:30 a.m. The event will begin with an academic procession from the Seymour St. courtyard of the Wosk Centre for Dialogue (580 West Hastings St.) at 10:25 a.m. It will cross Seymour and Pender to a red carpet running along Pender to the Granville St. entrance. A ceremony in the main hall of the Segal building will follow.
Susan Jamieson-McLarnon, 604.291.5151
Gender, race, Islam and the war on terror
A symposium will spark dialogue among advocates, activists and academics working on the issues facing Muslims, people perceived to be Muslim and other minority populations here and around the world in the 'war on terror' era, says organizer Liz Philipose, SFU’s visiting Ruth Wynn Woodward professor in women’s studies. Workshops will examine the 2005 Ontario debates about faith-based arbitration, the legality of the use of torture in the war on terror, the effect of media representations of Muslims on policy and the relationship of feminism to the Qu'ran.The symposium will be held May 11, 5-9 p.m. at Heritage Hall. 3012 Main Street Vancouver, and May 13, 5 – 7 p.m. at the Vancouver Public Library. For details check www.sfu.ca/womens-studies.
Liz Philipose, 604.291.4352; eizmph@sfu.ca
Rethinking our relationship with nature
Philosopher Michel Serres, known as one of France’s most original thinkers, will look at why society needs to reconsider its relationship with nature if it is to survive global environmental change, in his lecture, A Contract with Nature, based on his influential 1990 book, Le Contrat Naturel, on Thursday, May 4, at SFU Vancouver’s Harbour Centre campus, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. Serres will draw on scientific discoveries to argue that culture and nature, and humans and their environment, are inextricable rather than separate entities. Reservations are recommended. Call 604.291.5100 or email cs_hc@sfu.ca to reserve.
The federal Conservatives will bring down a budget today which experts say will be big on tax relief, including a cut in the GST. SFU faculty members who can look at what the budget will mean to taxpayers include:
Lindsay Meredith, business, 604.291.5554, lindsay_meredith@sfu.ca; budget implications, political strategy
Jonathan Kesselman, public policy program (Canada Research Chair in public finance), jon_kesselman@sfu.ca; 604. 264.9812; GST, tax cuts
Patrick Smith, 604.291.1544 (h); psmith@sfu.ca; political strategy, party image
Mark Jaccard, resource and environmental management, 604.291.4219; energy issues
Andrew Wister, gerontology, 604.291.5044; andrew_wister@sfu.ca, issues affecting seniors
Segal Graduate School of Business opens
SFU officially opens its Segal Graduate School of Business in a restored and renovated heritage bank building at 500 Granville St. (corner of Granville and Pender), Friday, May 5, at 10:30 a.m. The event will begin with an academic procession from the Seymour St. courtyard of the Wosk Centre for Dialogue (580 West Hastings St.) at 10:25 a.m. It will cross Seymour and Pender to a red carpet running along Pender to the Granville St. entrance. A ceremony in the main hall of the Segal building will follow.
Susan Jamieson-McLarnon, 604.291.5151
Gender, race, Islam and the war on terror
A symposium will spark dialogue among advocates, activists and academics working on the issues facing Muslims, people perceived to be Muslim and other minority populations here and around the world in the 'war on terror' era, says organizer Liz Philipose, SFU’s visiting Ruth Wynn Woodward professor in women’s studies. Workshops will examine the 2005 Ontario debates about faith-based arbitration, the legality of the use of torture in the war on terror, the effect of media representations of Muslims on policy and the relationship of feminism to the Qu'ran.The symposium will be held May 11, 5-9 p.m. at Heritage Hall. 3012 Main Street Vancouver, and May 13, 5 – 7 p.m. at the Vancouver Public Library. For details check www.sfu.ca/womens-studies.
Liz Philipose, 604.291.4352; eizmph@sfu.ca
Rethinking our relationship with nature
Philosopher Michel Serres, known as one of France’s most original thinkers, will look at why society needs to reconsider its relationship with nature if it is to survive global environmental change, in his lecture, A Contract with Nature, based on his influential 1990 book, Le Contrat Naturel, on Thursday, May 4, at SFU Vancouver’s Harbour Centre campus, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. Serres will draw on scientific discoveries to argue that culture and nature, and humans and their environment, are inextricable rather than separate entities. Reservations are recommended. Call 604.291.5100 or email cs_hc@sfu.ca to reserve.