MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance

Events

BROWSE BY YEAR
2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016

2022
	November 16. 2022 Smooth Sailing or Stormy Seas: Tourism Makes a Comeback
	November 1. 2022 Come Hell or High Water: Improving Emergency Response for People with Disabilities
	October 19, 2022 No Easy Answers: The complicated and involved practice of ethics in health care during crises
	September 20, 2022 All For One, or One For All: Can universal health care meet the needs of a diverse population?
	June 14, 2022 One Chance To Be A Child: Child Rights and Well-being in Nova Scotia
	January 28, 2022 Taxing the Unvaccinated: Evidence, Ethics and Policy Implications
	January 19, 2022 An African Nova Scotian Community Calling In: Agency, Accountability, Representation & Self-Determination

2021
	November 4, 2021 Transparency, Power and Influence in the Pharmaceutical Industry
	December 3, 2021 Solutions to Workforce Issues in the Seasonal Tourism Sector
	October 28, 2021 Calls to Justice of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry
	October 20, 2021 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
	October 14, 2021 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action
	Tuesday July 6, 2021 The Future of Long-Term Care in Canada: An Event Held in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Late Honourable Allan J. MacEachen's Birth
	Thursday June 17, 2021 Launching C.A.R.P. Nova Scotia's Position Paper: Working Together to Bring Home Care Home
	Thursday April 1, 2021 Just the Facts or Fool's Gold: Trust and Uncertainty at the Science-Policy Interface
	Thursday March 11, 2021 Race and Party Platforms in the Coming Nova Scotia Elections
	Thursday March 4, 2021 Climate Adaptation in Nova Scotia: Overblown or Under Water?
	Thursday February 25, 2021 The Road to Recovery for Atlantic Tourism
	Thursday February 18, 2021 Falling Through the Cracks: Long-Term Care & COVID-19

2020
	Tuesday October 20, 2020 Coastal Risk Governance: Lessons From COVID-19
	Wednesday October 14, 2020 U.S. Presidential Election 2020: What's at Stake for Canada?
	Thursday October 1, 2020 First Wave: Atlantic Canada's Chief Medical Officers Discuss Lessons From COVID-19
	Tuesday, May 12, 2020 The Challenges for Tourism in Atlantic Canada
	Thursday, May 14, 2020 Inside/Out: How Covid-19 is shifting our sense of places and spaces
	Tuesday, May 5, 2020 The Impact on Atlantic Canadian Fisheries
	Tuesday, April 28, 2020 Housing on the Brink
	Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Leadership in a Crisis
	Wednesday, March 25, 2020 Addressing COVID-19 Globally and Locally
	Thursday, February 27, 2020 Transformative Politics of the Wild
	Monday, February 3, 2020 Making it Count: Assessing the impact of the Decade for People of African Descent on policy in NS
	Monday, January 27, 2020 Strategies for Dismantling Racial Fragility within Public Institutions

2019
	Tuesday, November 19, 2019 Not All Fun and Games: Difficult Decisions and Trade-offs in Cultural and Recreational Infrastructure
	Tuesday, November 5, 2019 The Art of the Deal: Public-Private Partnerships
	Tuesday, October 29, 2019 When the Dust Settles: How Do We Hold People to Account After Disasters?
	Tuesday, October 22, 2019 A key Determinant of Health: Meeting the Housing Needs of Older LGBTQ2S+ Canadians
	Tuesday, October 15, 2019 Resilience or Reluctance: Climate Change Adaptation Policy in Atlantic Canada
	Tuesday, October 8, 2019 Human Rights and Reconciliation: Indigenous Child Welfare
	Tuesday, October 1, 2019 Canada’s Energy Future: Boom or Bust?
	Tuesday, September 24, 2019 The Future of Work: Where Demographics, Technology and Urbanization collide
	Monday, September 23, 2019 The Road Ahead: A Political Conversation about the Future of Atlantic Canada
	Tuesday, September 17, 2019 Food System Failure: Why Food is a Forgotten Policy Option
	Tuesday, September 10, 2019 Election 2019: Democracy and Manipulation in the Internet Age
	The Canadian Climate Policy and the Turnover Problem (Grad Student Round Table)
	March 27, 2019 The SNC-Lavalin Affair: Implications for Canadian Democracy

2018
	November 6, 2018 Provincial Perspectives on Federal Pharmacare
	October 30, 2018 Ports Modernization: Balancing Economic Prosperity and Environmental Sustainability
	October 23, 2018 Hosted in collaboration with the Dalhousie Faculty of Health: Youth Mental Health Care in Nova Scotia: What Needs to Change and How Do We Make That Happen?
	October 16, 2018 Hosted in collaboration with the Policy Options Magazine: Faking It: The Impact of Fake News on Today’s Political Landscape
	October 9, 2018 Hosted in collaboration with the Evironmental Information: Use and Influence (EIUI): Science and Policy: Should Scientific Information Have Pre-eminence in Public Decision-Making?
	October 2, 2018 Whose Nation? Navigating a New Era in Crown-Indigenous Relations
	September 27, 2018 Hosted in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs (CCEPA): Doing the Right Things at Home and Abroad - Why Ethics Matter: Some Ethical Reflections with Bob Rae
	September 25, 2018 Hosted in collaboration with the Marine Environmental Observation Prediction and Response Network (MEOPAR): Sink or Swim: Decisions in Emergency Management
	September 18, 2018 Policy Issues in Housing an Aging Population
	September 11, 2018 Hosted in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Security and Development: Echoes of 9/11 in the Trump Era: Did 9/11 Really “Change Everything”?
	June 29, 2018 Hosted by the The Jean Monnet European Union Centre of Excellence: Innovation in Housing Models and Policies for Older LGBTQi2S Populations
	March 16, 2018 Hosted by the The Jean Monnet European Union Centre of Excellence: CANADA‑EU RELATIONS: Perspectives from Berlin, Brussels & Rome The Honourable Stephane Dion, Daniel J. Costello, and Alexandra Bugailiskis spoke.
	March 8, 2018 Leaders in Health Research: Where to Next?
	March 8, 2018 Nowhere to Go: A Public Dialogue on Youth and Sexual Exploitation (Full Audio) In partnership with the Healthy Populations Institute (HPI), Stepping Stone, Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs (CCEPA), and the School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie Faculty of Health.
	Dalhousie Professors Kim Brooks, Graham Steele, and Shirley Tillotson spoke on the panel: Tax and Public Opinion: Can we do better tax talk? (Full Video)
	Hosted by the Dalhousie Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Concordia Professor Dr. Chedly Belkhodja gave a public lecture: Does Place Matter? Debates and Burial Decisions of Muslims in Canada

2017
	Policy Matters Speaker Series 2017 (Full Videos)
	Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink spoke at the November 27, 2017 event: The Ethics of Evacuation (Full Video)
	March 24, 2017 Policy Forum on Youth Outmigration in Atlantic Canada
	February 16, 2017 Presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities

2016
	November 15, 2016 Transformative Infrastructure: A Local and Regional Perspective \| Watch the video
	September 21, 2016 The Daily News: What’s Right? What’s Wrong? What’s Happening?\| Watch the video
	September 20, 2016 MacEachen Institute Brings Together Students and Former Parliamentarians
	June 6, 2016 Oceans of Information: Charting Courses between Science and Policy\| Read more
	June 1, 2016 Panel discussion: Social Responses to the 'Big Lift'
	May 9, 2016 MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance Grand Opening Watch the videos \| Read more

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