Event Archive

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

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

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?

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

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

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