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January 15, 2021
LANDON PEARSON at 90; Endless Contributions
By Hon. Landon Pearson
View webinar with the Hon. Landon Pearson on her work on children’s rights and on her reflections on Lester B Pearson, her father-in-law. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibNWrGnnF30 The following is her speech at Carleton University on the occasion of
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December 30, 2020
Food Banks: Christmas & Scrooge (Hunsley)
By Terrance Hunsley
In December, the CBC carried out a robust public campaign to help food banks across the country to generate donations. They devoted many hours of program time, enlisted the involvement of musicians, interviewed lots of food bank volunteers and workers
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November 23, 2020
Fed-Prov Conference needed on COVID (Waddell)
By Ian Waddell, QC
There’s a way forward: Trudeau should hold an open, televised federal-provincial conference By IAN WADDELL NOVEMBER 19, 2020 The Canadian public needs to actually see the politicians struggling with these issues. One forum would be an open televised a
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October 28, 2020
Appraising Homelessness in Toronto (F. Shrafat)
By Fatima Shrafat
An Appraisal of the Response to Homelessness in Toronto Executive Summary: The Fred Victor Organization determined that on any given day, over 9,200 people in the city of Toronto meet one of the definitions of homelessness. Shelters in the city general
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October 20, 2020
TRUDEAU Govt has to walk, chew gum and dance (Cardozo)
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Government has to walk, chew gum and dance at the same time. Fourteen years ago the NDP killed Canada’s national childcare plan days after it was signed and sealed. They can’t do it again this time. In 2006 the minority Liberal government of Paul Marti
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September 22, 2020
THRONE SPEECH ideas from our Webinars
By Andrew Cardozo & Ashwin Nair
What are Canadians saying about the big Throne Speech Issues? Since April 2020, Pearson has been hosting a series of webinars on the broad theme of “Covid & Beyond”. Here is what a number of thought leaders are saying. You can also watch the 25 webinar
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September 14, 2020
Really? Social Statistics in the Throne Speech?
By Peter Hicks
The “new normal” can lead to a better quality of life for Canadians The new session of Parliament provides an opportunity to make major gains in the effectiveness of social policies by greatly strengthening the evidence on which those policies are base
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September 4, 2020
Re-Imagining Canada: Throne Speech Ideas (Cardozo)
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Reimagining Canada: ideas for a bold throne speech By ANDREW CARDOZO Hill Times AUGUST 20, 2020 Pharmacare, climate change, housing—there are plenty of problems and solutions awaiting a Liberal government that has signalled it wants to think big as it
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September 8, 2020
Upcoming “COVID and Beyond” Webinars
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Click titles below to register for upcoming Pearson Centre Webinars on “COVID and Beyond.” Together, we’re leading the Canadian conversation on our post-COVID future, economic recovery, and the ever-changing months ahead. The Future of Work and Technol
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August 10, 2020
The Morneau Doctrine: To be continued or not (Cardozo)
By Andrew Cardozo
The HILL TIMES August 10, 2020 OTTAWA—Bill Morneau has been one of the longer serving federal finance ministers and probably the most revolutionary when it comes to doing big things. He has a record of big measures in normal times and extraordinary mea
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