Carney and Smith's grand bargain is about to hit the wall: Brodie

Eugene Lang, Interim Director of SPS, and Ian Brodie joined John Ivison's National Post podcast in a discussion about the memorandum of understanding struck between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. There is trouble ahead on the industrial carbon price the federal government reportedly wants to impose, and on the carbon capture and storage project that Carney hopes will “decarbonize” Western oil. This realization is starting to hit federal and provincial officials.

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MPA Student Toronto Study Tour

Start Date

Thursday March 12, 2026

End Date

Friday March 13, 2026

Time

9:30 am - 2:00 pm

Location

Toronto

On the annual Toronto Study Tour, MPA students will tour Queen's Park and the Ontario Investment and Trade Centre. Students will meet with distinguished provincial and municipal leaders, including the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and Deputy Ministers. The Study Tour will also include an MPA alumni panel and a networking cocktail reception at Massey College.

Canada's new defence policy must do away with the old orthodoxies

The School of Policy Studies' Hon. Bob Rae (Matthews Fellow in Global Public Policy), Michael Murphy (Adjunct Professor and Director, CIDP), and Eugene Lang (Interim Director, SPS) discuss Canada's new defence policy in this opinion piece in the Globe and Mail. 

"Canada's new defence policy must do away with the old orthodoxies" (subscription required)

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Warren Mabee speaks on electric ferries and high-speed rail in Kingston

Warren Mabee, Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning and former Director of the School of Policy Studies, argues that "the problematic introduction of electric ferries in the Kingston area could offer lessons to the agency developing the high-speed rail project" in a recent article in the Kingston Whig-Standard. 

"Kingston's electric ferries a cautionary tale for high-speed rail, says Queen's prof"

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