News and Recognition
This is the place to find out what’s happening in the School of Public Policy and learn more about faculty and student initiatives and recognition.
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 the CAHSPR website: https://cahspr.ca/en/about/foundation
March 5, 2013 The School hosted a talk by Roger Gibbins, Senior Fellow, Canada West Foundation titled BC and the New West: Regional Lynchpin or Solvent?Read overview
February 19,2013 BC Population Prosperity Initiative and SFU Public Square hosted the first Spring Dialogue at SFU Vancouver on Growing BC's Small Business Bigger. Click here to view op/ed article
January 18, 2013 An internal policy case competition was organized by the MPP Grad Caucus and the School - a successful first-time event. Teams were involved in a 3 hour case deliberation and 30 minute presentation/Q&A in front of a panel of judges, taking on roles of BC government officials and ADMs/DMs.
Congratulations to the top-ranked teams:
1st place: Anthony Carricato, James Knowles, Darius Pruss and Eric Warren
2nd place: Tabrina Clelland, Connor Curson and Felim Donnelly
3rd place: Sandip Basi, Tessa Cheng, Stephanie Donovan and Alanna Schroeder
Thank you to alumni Alanna Gillis (2011) and Rob O'Brien (2007) for being involved on the judging panel!
January 9, 2013 MPP graduate Carla Beak has an op/ed in the Vancouver Sun - The real cost of genetic testing Opinion: Health care system should prepare doctors for new technologies. Click here to view
December 23, 2012 MPP candidate Connor Curson article in the Vancouver Sun, The LNG Opportunity: don't squander it
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December 20, 2012 MPP Alumni Charles Lamman writes in iPOLITICS Income Inequality: wealth is more fluid than you think Click here to view
December 17, 2012 J. Rhys Kesselman writes in the Globe and Mail, No Reason for Further Delay: Expand the Canada Pension Plan Click here to view
December 6, 2012 Canadian Health Policy in the News: Why Evidence Matters. co-authored by Sharon Manson Singer. Click here to access preview on iTunes.
June 14, 2012: Four awards were presented to Masters of Public Policy graduands as part of SFU’s June 2012 Convocation held atop Burnaby Mountain. Nancy Olewiler made the announcements at the Public Policy reception for students, friends and family following the ceremony:
- CAPPA Award - presented to Terri Blackburn for her project titled To bee or not to bee, that is the problem: Managing wild bee decline in Canadian Agriculture
- MPP Capstone Award – presented to Francisco Gallegos for his project titled Food security and Food Sovereignty in Tarija-Bolivia: Public Policy Opportunities and Challenges in Rural Communities
- Ethical Significance – awarded to Joey Chopra for her project titled Mitigating violence against South Asian women in Metro Vancouver: a service provider perspective
- Creative Title – awarded to Terri Blackburn for To bee or not to bee, that is the problem: Managing wild bee decline in Canadian Agriculture
We congratulate all Masters of Public Policy students who graduated this summer!
May 8, 2012: Online commentary by John Richards titled In international development, education should be Canada’s focus in the Globe and Mail. Available at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/in-international-development-education-should-be-canadas-focus/article4105296/___
March 2, 2012: Op/Ed by J. Rhys Kesselman titled Budgetary Balance: the Real Meaning in the Vancouver Sun
February 27, 2012: Article by John Richards titled Putting the ‘system’ in education for on-reserve students in the Globe and Mail Available at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/putting-the-system-in-education-for-on-reserve-students/article549009/
Febuary 16, 2012: Article by J. Rhys Kesselman titled Reforming Canada’s Retirement Income System in ipolitics.
January 19, 2012: The School hosted Connecting Policy Professionals, an evening reception at Harbour Centre that brought together current students, alumni, faculty, Co-op employers, and other organizations involved in policy work in Metro Vancouver. Dean of Arts and Social Sciences Dr. John Craig attended, as well as senior federal officials Gerry Salembier, ADM, Western Economic Diversification and Chantale Courcy, regional director of the Public Service Commission of Canada.