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Category: Government

Chicago to Lethbridge

A couple of weeks ago, a philosophy professor at the University of Lethbridge named Paul Viminitz invited Frances Widdowson to speak.  Widdowson, a historian, was fired from Mount Royal University a little over a year ago mainly, I gather, because of her determination to air in class her view that Residential Schools were actually kind of good.  The invitation was not just for her to expand on these views (as well as, more generally, her odious idea that Indigenous knowledge

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February 7, 2023 7 Comments

That Bill Morneau Book

I read Where to From Here: A Path To Canadian Prosperity, by former Liberal Finance Minister Bill Morneau, this weekend.  I cannot in good conscience recommend anyone else read it – it is bland, provides almost no new insight into the workings of the Trudeau government, and the “aw shucks can’t we all be more decent and moderate?” shtick gets old fast. But it has an important lesson for the post-secondary education sector.  And that is: the sector counts for nothing in Ottawa

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January 30, 2023 4 Comments

Emergency Benefit Puzzles

Last week, Statistics Canada published a fascinating little report on how much assistance Canadian students received from the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) and the Canada Emergency Student Benefit (CESB) during COVID.  The results are interesting but lack a bit of context, which I thought I would provide. It’s been nearly three years since CERB and CESB were a thing, so here’s a refresher:  CERB was announced on March 25 just a few days after much of the economy came

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January 20, 2023 No Comments

Consulting

The issue of how governments use consultants is now centre-stage, thanks to Pierre Poilievre and the National Post deciding to go full Maude Barlow on the issue of federal government contracts with McKinsey & Company.  Chatter on twitter suggests that left and right are able to come together around two key issues: first, that having consultants do work means that government is somehow no longer accountable to the public  and second, plaintively asking “why do we need consultants, when public servants

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January 17, 2023 1 Comment

Mexican Higher Education and the Lopez Obrador Presidency

Welcome to the first podcast episode of 2023. As you read in Monday’s blog, the format of the podcast will be changing over the next few weeks. We are excited to bring you more stories of higher education from around the globe, including the countries highlighted the World Higher Education Review. While the formatting and branding will be changing, the quality insight our guests bring will not. This week we’re joined by Alma Maldonado-Maldonado of Mexico’s CINEVSTAV as we discuss

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January 13, 2023 No Comments

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