Lalonde, Barbra
Barbra Lalonde
Manager
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Hub 1 Administrative Unit
Manager
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Hub 1 Administrative Unit
Acting Director
School of Policy Studies
Arts and Science
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.
Robert Wolfe, Professor Emeritus, was quoted in "Carney breaks with tradition in selecting Charette as chief negotiator for U.S. trade" in The Hill Times.
Start Date
Thursday March 12, 2026End Date
Friday March 13, 2026Time
9:30 am - 2:00 pmLocation
TorontoOn 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.
Eugene Lang, SPS Interim Director, was quoted in John Ivison's latest article, "Let the turf war over Carney's defence-spending bonanza begin" in the National Post (subscription required).
Warren Mabee, Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning and former director of the School of Policy Studies, with co-authors Tom Browne and Peter Milley, discuss the impacts of the U.S. tariffs on Canada's forest industry.
"How to save Canada’s troubled forestry industry" (Subscription required)
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)
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"
Don Drummond, Stauffer-Dunning Fellow, writes in his latest Intelligence Memo with the C.D. Howe Institute, that Ontario's labour market has been hit hard by the U.S. President's tariffs.
"The Ontario Labour Market is Faring Poorly Under Trump Tariffs"