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In this article, MPPGA student Sonia Takhar discusses the UK’s EU referendum and how the vote might affect Canada’s relationships with both the U.K. and the EU. Takhar also shares her thoughts on how Canada’s higher education sector might best react to Brexit.

MPPGA students Kiran Alwani, Zameena Dadani, and Sonia Takhar attended Canada 2020’s “Next Big Challenge: Being Innovative” in Ottawa where they met Hon. Melanie Joly, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Hon. Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science & Economic Development who spoke among other inspiring speakers about Innovation in Canada.

The new education brand for Canada, “EduCanada”, developed in collaboration with the provinces and territories, was unveiled today, May 31 at NAFSA’s Annual Conference and Expo 2016. Canada is a global leader in quality education and the destination of choice for students, researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs seeking a world of possibilities. Watch the video to learn more.

Tuesday, June 7, 2016 12:00 – 1:30pm C.K. Choi Building – Room 120  1855 West Mall, UBC V6T 1Z2 Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP. Sponsors: Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research, Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs About Vijay Mahajan Vijay Mahajan turned 18 in 1972, the year India celebrated its […]

Dr. Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President, Center for Policy Research, New Delhi, will be an academic visitor at the Institute of Asian Research, UBC from April 25 to May 4. He will give public talks on April 25 & May 2, in addition to a keynote talk at the CISAR/IAR Conference, “Challenges of Urbanization.”

On April 28, join Aga Khan Foundation Canada and the British Columbia Council for International Cooperation for the launch of the 2016 tour of Together: An exhibition on Global Development. Together is an innovative, multi-sensory experience designed to spark conversations about the role that Canadians can play in reducing global poverty.

In this recent blog post, MPPGA student Andrés Delgado examines the impacts on the Shuar community — an Amazonian tribe that has resisted mining projects since their first encounter with members of the Spanish crown  — due to the development of Mirador, the biggest mining project in Ecuador.

Join this talk Fri, April 8th by Prof. Tana Johnson, Duke University at C.K. Choi Building (Rm #120). Lunch available at 11:30am. RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/zcqyjwh

MPPGA Co-Director, Director of Institute of Asian Research and Professor Yves Tiberghien will be a keynote speaker at the Vision 20 conference in Hangzhou, China March 31-April 1, co-organized by IAR. The conference is focused on Improving Global Governance and Addressing Systemic Risk: How Can the G20 Take a Proactive Role in 2016?  www.thevision20.org

Learn more about the ongoing territorial dispute in the Arctic in this latest blog post, Settling Sovereignty Claims over the Hans Island, by MPPGA student Raphaël Roman.

MPPGA student Brady Fox explores how the exclusion of Cambodia’s 50,000 monks sets a worrying precedent for the 2017/2018 elections in this policy blog post.

MPPGA students are in Ottawa this week, designing a policy toolkit in a Policy Studio at the Central Innovation Hub, part of the Privy Council Office, and meeting with policy practitioners. One student team has begun by conducting a SWOT analysis – a structured planning method used to evaluate strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

After a 30-day study of the Canadian government’s social media footprint, MPPGA Professor Julian Dierkes and students Zameena Dadani, Emily Mann, Chad Rickaby, and Brady Fox provided recommendations to steer Canadian governmental organizations towards the goals of digital diplomacy.

Margaret Biggs, a former president of the Canadian International Development Agency, and John McArthur, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and UN Foundation are authors of a new CIPS report on Canada’s engagement with global sustainable development. In this interview, they explain how the world’s challenges are truly global and what Canada can do to tackle them.

Canada’s Minister of International Trade, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, visited UBC on Jan. 12 to discuss the progress of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal. The Minister said the Liberal government is still at the stage of understanding the deal, but ensured that free trade and integrating Canada into the global economy will always be their priority.

Abducted and trained as a child soldier by the Lord’s Resistance Army, Evelyn Amony spent nearly 11 years inside the LRA and became a forced wife to its leader, Joseph Kony and mother to his children. Now free, she has published a book with MPPGA Professor Erin Baines. Listen to the BBC interview.

Change starts from the bottom up, and the strongest, most legally binding climate actions will come from within state borders. Here are some of the unofficial actors who made their voices heard around Paris during the climate conference.

Learn more about MPPGA Professor David Boyd’s new book, The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future at UBC’s Allard School of Law on Nov. 25th at 12:30pm.

Visit this landing page to share information about initiatives, events and activities by UBC’s community that directly respond to the global refugee crisis.

The Lind Initiative in U.S. Studies presents Jill Abramson on “Gender Inequality in the Workplace and Media.” Jill Abramson is Former Executive Editor, New York Times and Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University, in conversation with Anna Maria Tremonti, host of CBC Radio One’s The Current. 

HUB’s Bike to Work Week is taking place on October 26 to November 1. Our MPPGA students have formed a team to log all their trips this week. We encourage everyone to also participate for a chance to win a cycling trip for 2, including airfare, to Vietnam!

Read the Leading Cities report that explores “co-creation” using the City of Vancouver as a case study. The report was completed in collaboration with multiple stakeholders including MPPGA Co-Director Moura Quayle.

The MPPGA Co-operative Education Pilot Program (Co-op) allows MPPGA graduate students to acquire practical, paid work experience specific to policy-related professions as a compliment to their classroom learning. Work placements occur during the summer between the first and second years of the MPPGA program. Co-op graduates will be well prepared, academically and professionally, for their future careers.

The ALT Program, delivered by The Canadian Bureau for International Education and with The Institute of Public Administration of Canada, will grant scholarships to young African women and men to pursue a Master’s degree in public administration, public policy or public finances. Open to young professionals from sub-Saharan Africa. Consider UBC’s MPPGA and apply by November 2, 2015.

In December, countries are expected to adopt a new agreement on climate change that will ultimately replace the Kyoto Protocol. To learn more, watch these Paris Knowledge Bridge videos produced by Jennifer Allan, UBC PhD Student and the IISD and derived from 60 interviews with heads of UN agencies, negotiators and civil society.