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2024 Ontario Public Service (OPS) Breakfast

The School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA) cordially invites you to its annual Ontario Public Service (OPS) Breakfast. Time: 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.Date: Tuesday October 1, 2024Location: Osgoode PD, 26th Floor, 1 Dundas St W, Toronto Keynote Speaker Shannon Fuller Deputy Minister, Policy and Delivery, and Associate Secretary of Cabinet. The Cabinet Office, […]

Municipalities on the frontlines: New realities and mandates in a post-pandemic world – 4th Annual Municipalities of the Future Symposium

We are pleased to announce that our 4th annual Municipalities of the Future Symposium will proceed in virtual format on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 from 9:00am to 2:30pm and Dino Basso, Commissioner of Corporate Services for the Regional Municipality of York will serve as keynote speaker. Throughout the day there will be many guest speakers. View […]

SPPA virtual breakfast event features guest speaker Brian Fior

Ontario’s chief talent officer and associate deputy minister, Office of the Public Service Commission Treasury Board Secretariat, Brian Fior, was the guest speaker at the annual Ontario Public Service (OPS) Breakfast presented by York University’s School of Public Policy & Administration (SPPA) on Oct. 6. More than 100 participants attended, eager to learn about OPS human […]

SPPA Municipal Symposium highlights practices for achieving community benefits

In early March, York University’s School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA) in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) held its third annual Municipalities of the Future Symposium at York University’s Keele Campus. The 2020 symposium was co-hosted by United Way of Greater Toronto (UWGT) and focused on the theme “Advancing Communities […]

SPPA awards dinner recognizes service excellence, visionary leadership

Recognizing service excellence and visionary leadership, the School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA) held its annual Student, Alumni and Community Recognition Awards dinner on Nov. 21, 2019. This year, alumnus Jim Cassimatis, interim associate deputy minister of ServiceOntario, delivered the keynote address. Cassimatis reflected on his public service career, offering a candid account of […]

MPPAL Alumna Judith D’Souza-Soares gives keynote address at 2020 Student, Alumni and Community Recognition Awards

MPPAL alumna and 2020 Foster-Greene Award winner Judith D’Souza Soares currently works at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board as a Director in charge of the Occupational Disease and Survivor Benefits Program. At this year’s Student, Alumni and Community Recognition Awards, she gave a keynote address titled, “What Matters Most: Crucial Leadership Lessons the COVID-19 Pandemic […]

Ontario Public Service (OPS) Breakfast – October 4, 2016

Ontario Public Service Breakfast Time: 7:30am – 9:30am Date: Tuesday, Oct 4th, 2016 Please join the Hon. Deborah Mathews Deputy Premier, Minister of Advanced Education and Skills Development and Minister Responsible for Digital Government for a keynote speech on Female Leadership in Government Minister Matthews will reflect on what drew her into politics in 2003, […]