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Other Research Activities
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PWFC Third Annual Symposium
13/12/2007 - 14/12/2007
Ottawa Congress Centre
Theme: Social and Economic Well-Being of Canada's Population in 2017
The third annual PWFC Symposium will discuss the social and economic well-being of Canada’s population in 2017. Research and policy discussions will focus on the future policy implications of significant structural changes, notably the aging population, the changing nature of work, increasing diversity and shifts in family and societal norms.
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Pre-Symposium: Data Development and Modelling Seminar
12/12/2007
Ottawa Congress Centre
The third annual PWFC Symposium will be preceded by a full day of presentations, workshops, and discussions on data development and modelling exercises..
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The Science-Policy Interface: Water and Climate Change, and the Energy-Water Nexus
02/10/2007
Washington DC
A workshop involving prominent academics, scientists, and researchers was held at the Woodrow Wilson Centre, Washington, on October 2, 2007 on science-policy issues relating to water and its relationship to climate change and energy use. The workshop followed on the initiative of Howard Alper (University of Ottawa) and Heather Munroe-Blum (McGill University).
Scholars focused on two major aspects of water policy in North America: water and climate change, and the energy-water nexus. The workshop had two broad objectives: to share science and research among experts on various aspects of water issues, and contribute to a better understanding of the forward work agenda of researchers in Canada and the United States.
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Water and climate change explored the science and responses to the effects of climate change on water availability and quality (including conservation, allocation and use efficiency, in-stream flow regime requirements for ecosystem protection, infrastructure issues, agricultural water-use, and related issues).
The energy-water nexus considered issues around the use of energy in supplying municipal water and sewage services in domestic water-use, and in supplying irrigation water for agriculture, and the use of water in energy production.
For more information on the PRI project on Freshwater for the Future, please click here.
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Canada-China Symposium on Social Inclusion and Economic Development
12/12/2006 - 15/12/2006
Beijing, China
The IEA of CASS, in partnership with the Policy Research Initiative (PRI), the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, and the Organizing Committee for the 16 th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (ICAES 2008), held a Canada-China Symposium on Social Inclusion and Economic Development.
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PRDG meeting
10/03/2006
Ottawa
The primary purpose of the meeting was to give departments an opportunity to present to the PRDG proposals for new data development projects. Other agenda items included scheduling of the annual workplan-sharing meeting and the discussion of the establishment of advisory committees for ongoing projects.
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Communities Under Pressure: The Role of Co-operatives and the Social Economy
03/03/2006
Ottawa
A one-day policy conference for policy makers, researchers and practitioners concerned with co-operatives, the social economy and community development. The event was co-sponsored by the Policy Research Initiative, Human Resources and Social Development, the Co-operatives Secretariat of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the interdisciplinary research team, “Co-operative Membership and Globalization: Creating Social Cohesion Through Market Relations,” which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
The conference examined the experiences of an important component of the social economy in order to inform the development of new responses by organizations and governments to the challenges communities face as a result of globalization.
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Evidence-Based Public Policy: New Tools from Experimental Economics
24/10/2005 - 25/10/2005
Château Cartier, Aylmer, Quebec
Economic and behavioural experiments represent a promising set of tools for testing human behaviour in various real-life settings, with application to a range of practical public policy and programming problems. The PRI and CIRANO (Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations) hosted a 1 1/2-day conference on the policy applications of experimental research. The event intended for policy researchers and policy makers interested in the potential of this powerful methodology to inform policy decisions in areas as diverse as healthcare, education and training, social policy, industrial and regulatory policy, energy and the environment, and fiscal policy.
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PRDG Meeting: Research Collaboration/Clusters - Environment
11/10/2005
At the June 30, 2005 workplan-sharing meeting, departments expressed interest in extending the discussions on selected horizontal policy issues (productivity, pressures from emerging markets, and human capital/post-secondary education). Four meetings were scheduled, one per issue area, to facilitate information sharing and interdepartmental collaboration in policy research.
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PRDG Meeting: Research Collaboration/Clusters - Human Capital/Post-Secondary Education
26/09/2005
At the June 30, 2005 workplan-sharing meeting, departments expressed interest in extending the discussions on selected horizontal policy issues (productivity, pressures from emerging markets, and human capital/post-secondary education). Four meetings were scheduled, one per issue area, to facilitate information sharing and interdepartmental collaboration in policy research.
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PRDG Meeting: Research Collaboration/Clusters - Productivity
20/09/2005
At the June 30, 2005 workplan-sharing meeting, departments expressed interest in extending the discussions on selected horizontal policy issues (productivity, pressures from emerging markets, and human capital/post-secondary education). Four meetings were scheduled, one per issue area, to facilitate information sharing and interdepartmental collaboration in policy research.
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Canadian Public Health Association 96th Annual Conference
18/09/2005 - 21/09/2005
Westin Ottawa and Ottawa Congress Centre
Mapping the Future of Public Health: People, Places and Policies
The Canadian Public Health Association 96th Annual Conference was organized by the Canadian Institute for Health Information – Canadian Population Health Initiative (CIHI-CPHI), Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Institute of Population and Public Health (CIHR-IPPH) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). The conference focused on policy- and practice-relevant research in population health and much more.
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PRDG Meeting: Research Collaboration/Clusters - Emerging Markets
14/09/2005
At the June 30, 2005 workplan-sharing meeting, departments expressed interest in extending the discussions on selected horizontal policy issues (productivity, pressures from emerging markets, and human capital/post-secondary education). Four meetings were scheduled, one per issue area, to facilitate information sharing and interdepartmental collaboration in policy research.
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PRDG Meeting: Data Access
13/09/2005
The meeting was an opportunity for departments to learn about new processes for accessing detailed survey data at Statistics Canada and for departments to share any concerns they may have about data access.
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Canadian Families Under Pressure?
19/05/2005 - 20/05/2005
Montréal
Quebec Inter-University Centre for Social Statistics (QICSS)
This conference provided an opportunity to discuss the multiple challenges that families face, drawing on the various Canadian surveys available in the Research Data Centres. What factors cause or influence the changes we are observing? What are the economic and social impacts of these changes? What policies and programs could be set up to better respond to individuals’ and families’ needs?
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Urban Aboriginals Peoples: Perspectives in Research
01/06/2002
The Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, organized by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) in partnership with a number of federal departments and agencies, including the PRI, was held November 2002 in Ottawa. Many of the presentations given at the Conference were based on papers, commissioned by the PRI, on urban Aboriginal issues. These papers form the core of a publication titled "Not Strangers in These Parts: Urban Aboriginal People". The PRI, in partnership with Privy Council Office's Urban Aboriginal Strategy, INAC's Strategic Research and Analysis Directorate, and the University of Western Ontario, assembled the publication. Edited by Professors David Newhouse (Trent University) and Evelyn Peters (University of Saskatchewan), this compilation covers a wide range of topics including urban Aboriginal institutions, Aboriginal languages, and economic development. Launch of this collection was fall 2003.
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Genomics and Public Policy: Symposium
01/06/2002
A symposium on "Genomics and Public Policy" was held in Toronto in June 2002. The event was organized by the PRI, in partnership with the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Genome Canada, Health Canada, and Industry Canada. A publication titled "Genomics, Health, and Society: Emerging Issues for Public Policy" was released in December 2003. The publication themes include the policy context, genetic medicine and privacy, intellectual property, implications for the developing world, and informing government.
The symposium, Genomics, Health and Society: Emerging Issues for Public Policy, held in Ottawa on March 24 and 25, 2004 was an effort to bring together experts and policy makers to better understand the implications of rapid advances in this human science for individuals, societies, and economies. This symposium report captures the essence of the presentations and the discussions.
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Instrument Choice
01/01/2002
The effectiveness and legitimacy of instrument choices - the tools of governance - have been of significant interest in the public sector for several years. In 2002, the PRI initiated a research project with a view to examining the topic, and some of the key obstacles its development to date, as well proposals for a research path forward. Information about the project and the ideas that gave rise to it can be found in the foundation paper, which also provided the basis for a conference held in 2002 at McGill University entitled Instrument Choice in Global Democracies. Later that year, PRI held a one-day policy dialogue on the use of alternative social policy instruments as tools to achieve community-based reconciliation and avoid litigation.
The ideas generated at the conference – notably the shift from instrument choice as a tool for effectiveness to a tool for good governance – have been picked up in the public service through an innovative research proposal by Health Canada entitled Governance Choices and Health Care Quality: A Focus on Patient Safety. The proposal has generated several funded research studies that are currently underway.
The work done to date by the project has generated an edited collection entitled Designing Government: From Instruments to Governance, which was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in February 2005. The book includes both Canadian and comparative analyses of the intellectual history of instrument choice, its practical application and development in Canada and the relationship of instrument choice to policy design, implementation and risk management from economic, legal and political science perspectives.
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Governance Choices and Health Care Quality: A Focus on Patient Safety
Designing Government: From Instruments to Governance
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