June 1, 2013
Professor Dominique M. Gross is the 2012 winner of the John Vanderkamp Prize awarded for the best paper published by Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques. The paper, Temporary Foreign Workers and Regional Labour Market Disparities in Canada, co-authored by Professor Nicolas Schmitt, is about the impact of temporary foreign workers on provincial unemployment.  

May 29, 2013  
Master of Public Policy student Angie Natingor is this year’s winner of the Justice Emmett Hall Memorial Foundation’s student essay competition. Her paper, Caring for End-Of-Life Caregivers in British Columbia: An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis, was chosen by a selection panel as being the best submission in the masters category.

The Hall Foundation was created to preserve the memory of Justice Emmett M. Hall, the “father” of Canadian Medicare. Its annual student essay competition was launched in 2008 to foster Canadian health economics and health policy research among undergraduate, masters and doctoral students. Essay winners werel presented with their awards at the 2013 Canadian Association of Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) conference in Vancouver.

For more information on the winning essays, visit CAHSPR's website:
 https://cahspr.ca/en/about/foundation

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May 7, 2013 Election 2013: All Party Forum on Mental Health and Additions in BC 
in partnership with Canadian Mental Health Assocation- BC and SFU Public Square. Everyone welcome, 7-9pm at SFU Woodwards. Details and registration here
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May 2013
Professor J. Rhys Kesselman and Adjunct Professor Rod Quiney will deliver a workshop in Ottawa titled Enhancing Tax Compliance in Turbulent Times. With SSHRC grant support, this session will bring together distinguished academics from Austria, UK, US, and Canada as well as senior executives of the Canada Revenue Agency. 
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February 8, 2013
Our team won the 2nd annual National Policy Case competition at Queen's! We congratulate team members Tabrina Clelland, Connor Curson and Anthony Carricato. They competed against teams from nine other policy schools from across Canada.  View article and photo 
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What does the Masters of Public Policy program mean to you?  That's the question we asked our first and second year students recently.  We got creative and turned the responses into a Wordle. 

June 6, 2013 Commentary by William Watson, Are foreign workers the problem - or employment insurance?, referencing award-winning paper by Professors Gross and Schmitt, in Financial Post Read article

May 15, 2013 John Richard's writes BC's Dix was ready to govern but forgot about the campaign, in Globe & Mail Read article

May 6, 2013 Lower Mainland must tread harder by MPP graduate Pomme Arros in Vancouver Sun  Read article

May 2, 2013  School of Public Policy co-sponsored initiative featured in Stephen Hume: Public Dialogue a great example of democracy in action in Vancouver Sun Read article.  See BCPPI page for more details

April 24, 2013 Alberta's Tax Structure Advantage in Financial Post Read article

March 28th, 2013 Axe BC Transfer Tax on Used Cars in Vancouver Sun Read article

March 2013 Article in Policy Options journal titled Our Canada Includes First Nations, written by SFU MPP 2013 national policy case competition winners. Read article