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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 […]

Equity Disparity | York’s Blackness in Canada project explores systemic racism

PPA professor Lorne Foster has for years been collecting data about systemic racism and its effect on Black Canadians. Foster argues that Canada often struggles with a potentially misleading perception of itself as non-racist. “The dominant cultural narrative defines Canada as a non-racist or post-racial society,” he says. “Yet disparities continue to exist unabated in […]

Learning from Leaders podcast goes live

YUSPPAAN’s Learning from Leaders podcast is now live. Check out the link below for our first episode featuring Dr. Peter P. Constantinou on the Ontario Legislature Internship Program. We thank Romina Chencheva, MA, MPPAL, Georgette Morris and Dr. Peter P. Constantinou for delivering such an interesting and insightful interview in our first episode.

PPA undergraduate students collaborate with students in Korea to study social policy

School of Public Policy and Administration Professor Thomas Klassen from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LAPS) worked with Professor Sophia Lee at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, South Korea, to provide undergraduate students in their respective classes with a unique international learning opportunity. Klassen teaches Canada’s Social Policy (PPAS 3761) while Lee teaches a course on Social Security in Korea. The […]

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, […]