News and Events

Presenter Ross Curtis with the 2010 Jack Ebbels Memorial Scholarship recipients, Nicholas Buncic and Avery Kelly

     

Policy and Governance Forum:  Performance Budgeting in the Alberta Provincial Government Reflections on the Principles and Practices by Georgia Gerontas, Manager, Results-Based Budgeting, Alberta Energy.  Click here for more info

Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medals presented to two
School of Public Administration graduate students
The Diamond Jubilee Medal was created by the Government of Canada to recognize the outstanding contributions of Canadians of all ages and from all walks of life. Administered through the Office of the Governor General of Canada, this medal program is one of the elements of the year-long Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

Sarah Daitch, MA in Dispute Resolution candidate, was one of four Fort Smith, NWT residents who were presented with a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. The Honourable J. Michael Miltenberger, MLA for Thebacha, and MP Dennis Bevington presented the medals on February 16 at the Northern Life Museum. As Sarah is at UVic this term, her parents accepted the medal on her behalf. Sarah, who is a cross-country skiing athlete, received an entrance scholarship to the MADR program and now holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Graduate Fellowship.

John Nsabimana, MPA candidate, is on a Co-op Term at UNICEF in New York and was one of six Canadians presented with the medal at a special ceremony held at the UNICEF Headquarters on March 1. John was born in Kigali, Rwanda. In 1994, when over one million Rwandan refugees fled from the genocide and terror in Rwanda into neighbouring countries, John escaped and travelled to Uganda. He then spent the next 11 years of his life in a refugee camp in Uganda. He arrived in Canada in 2004 on a United World Scholarship, attended Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific, achieved a Bachelor in Child and Youth Care, and is now studying in the MPA program with an interest in human rights.

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The Globe & Mail asks its economy lab contributors for their budget-day wish list; Lindsay Tedds asks for income tax reform

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Prof. John Langford comments in Justine Hunter's article for the Globe & Mail that the BC Liberal multicultural strategy hurts the institution of government.

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A thoughtfully-implemented congestion charge could help alleviate traffic woes in Halifax and other cities, Dr. Lindsay Tedds states in a recent column in the Globe and Mail.

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Blogging for the Huffington Post Canada, Lindsay Tedds and Peter Hunnisett ask the question: "What problem is Harper's Venture Capital Plan trying to solve?".  Dr. Tedds comments on the same topic in Kate Heartfield's article in the Ottawa Citizen.

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Roderick MacIsaac was warmly remembered by family, friends, and colleagues as a quiet, thoughtful man at the memorial service held in his honour. Times Colonist.

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Research Agenda of the Unesco Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education, presented by Dr. Budd Hall, Co-Chair. PowerPoint presentation available here, audio presentation (18:12 in length) available here.

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Global Governance and the Internet: Is "Organized Chaos" Best?, presented by Dr. Gordon Smith, examines global interdependence, internet governance, and the promise of multi-stakeholder governance. (Click on the title to listen to the mp3 file (1:40:45).)

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IPAC Victoria - John Langford: The Changing World of Public Sector Ethics. Click here for details.

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In a story by CBC News North, Grand Chief of the Dehcho First Nations is calling for a meeting of First Ministers with the Prime Minister. Read Professor Budd Hall's comments regarding the "Idle No More" movement here.

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Public Administration alumna Kim Henderson (Deputy Minister, BC Ministry of Citizens' Services and Open Government) has been named to the list of Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada compiled by the Financial Post. View the article online.

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Evert Lindquist presented "Adapting to British Columbia's New Era and Moving Beyond: Relationship-Building, Funding, and the Non Profit Sector" (prepared with Thea Vakil) to the Funding Policies and the Non-profit Sector in Western Canada Forum hosted by the Institute of Non-profit Studies on October 15-16 at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. Copies of the paper are available on request at evert@uvic.ca.

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Evert Lindquist attended the "30 Years of Canadian Studies at Berkeley: Looking Forward, Taking Stock" at the University of California at Berkeley, in the San Francisco Bay Area, October 18-19th, 2012. Find out more about the Canadian Studies program through: http://canada.berkeley.edu/

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Horizontal Management in Canada Ten Years Later - Evert Lindquist revisits his assessment of horizontal governance in public management in Canada. Published in Optimum Online: The Journal of Public Sector Management, the full article is available through: http://www.optimumonline.ca/article.phtml?id=422

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Congratulations to Catherine Althaus for winning the Sam Richardson Award for 2011 with her article "Assessing the Capacity to Deliver - the BER Experience", published in the Australian Journal of Public Administration. To read Catherine's article, click here.

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Evert Lindquist, Director of the School of Public Administration, comments on politicians' spending on BC Almanac from CBC Radio British Columbia. (Dr. Lindquist is featured after 23:47) Click here to listen to the podcast.

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Lindsay Tedds appeared on the Rob Breakenridge Show (August 10, 2012) speaking about her recent article on the taxation of awards to Olympic medal winning athletes. Read more in this Globe and Mail Economy Lab article.

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Lindsay Tedds appeared on CBC Radio One's BC Almanac (July 10, 2012) speaking about the underground economy. For a link to the mp3 audio file, please go to: http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/bcalmanac_20120710_45563.mp3. (Dr. Tedds is featured after 22:28)

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Read Lynne Siemens' article "The Impact of a Community-University Collaboration: Opening the 'Black Box'" in the Canadian journal of nonprofit and social economy research. Click here.

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Budd Hall and Crystal Tremblay recently published a review titled "Learning from SSHRC funded Partnerships: Community Outcomes and Conditions for Success" commissioned by SSHRC. The review will be released at the Congress in Ottawa in May, and be publicly available after that time.

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Mark Jarvis shares win of prestigious Donner Prize, an annual award for the best public policy book by a Canadian.
Democratizing the Constitution: Reforming Responsible Government by Peter Aucoin, Mark D. Jarvis and Lori Turnbull (Emond Montgomery Publications) was awarded the $50,000 prize.
In Democratizing the Constitution, the authors argue that Canada's time-honoured system of responsible government is failing us. The principle by which the executive must be accountable to the people's elected representatives is slipping away, and our constitution and its unwritten conventions no longer provide effective constraints on a prime minister's power. Democratizing the Constitution examines recent history and ongoing controversies as it makes the case for restoring power to where it belongs - with the people's elected representatives in Parliament.
Peter Aucoin was Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Public Administration at Dalhousie University; he passed away on July 7, 2011. Mark D. Jarvis is a doctoral candidate at the University of Victoria. Lori Turnbull is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University. Click here to read more.

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David Good testifies before the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates. Click here to read his statement. Click here to read the full proceedings.

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Lindsay Tedds in The Winnipeg Free Press
BC man facing prison follows long history of tax protesters. Russell Porisky of BC is facing prison for preaching a bizarre theory that argues citizens don't have to pay taxes, reports the Canadian Press. Lindsay Tedds comments in this story, picked up by several news outlets including the Winnipeg Free Press, The Daily Courier (Kelowna) and Global Edmonton, that Porisky's theory has absolutely no grounding in the law. The Winnipeg Free Press

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David Good in The Globe and Mail
Bonuses set off storm of criticism - David Good, a former assistant deputy minister in Ottawa who now teaches in UVic's public administration school, was quoted on Friday about Translink executive bonuses.  Globe and Mail

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David Good in The Hill Times
Don't expect federal spending to increase - The federal government's spending estimates, recently released for the upcoming budget year, project cuts to several departments even without including the coming billions of dollars in operating cuts. UVic's David Good provides comment for an article in The Hill Times

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Professor John Langford was co-rapporteur with Leslie Seidle at a very interesting Forum of Federations roundtable on joint service delivery (October, 2011). See: http://www.forumfed.org/en/events/event.php?id=709. The PowerPoint presentations available at the bottom of the page will be of great interest to all the School's students.

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Distinguished Lawyer Named LAM Chair in Law and Public Policy
A nationally recognized expert in collaborative dispute resolution, M. Jerry McHale, Q.C.will join the Faculty of Human and Social Development and the Faculty of Law for a two-year term to provide expertise and leadership in the field of dispute resolution. His experience will benefit students studying and researching in this area, particularly those enrolled in the Master of Arts in Dispute Resolution (MADR) program in the School of Public Administration and the Juris Doctor program in the Faculty of Law. To read the full media release click here.