The School of Policy Studies Weekly Speaker Series: 2025-26 Schedule
Mar
05
Thursday
Sport, Smoke, Drugs... And Public Policy: An Advocacy Journey
Dr. Andrew Pipe | Policy Matters: Beyond the Brief
Mar
19
Thursday
The Physician Role in our HealthCare System
Dr. Lisa Tannock | Policy Matters: Beyond the Brief
Mar
26
Thursday
Celebrating Tom Courchene: A Symposium
Past Events
Feb
26
Thursday
10 Things I Learned as Health Minister that I Wish I Had Known Before I Started
Dr. Deb Matthews | Policy Matters: Beyond the Brief
Feb
12
Thursday
Machine M.D.: The Governance of Health-Related AI
Colleen M. Flood | Policy Matters: Beyond the Brief
Feb
05
Thursday
Indigenous Law and Environmental Governance in Canada in 2026
Lindsay Borrows | Policy Matters: Beyond the Brief
Jan
29
Thursday
Book Launch | Chrétien and the World: Canadian Foreign Policy from 1993 To 2003
Jack Cunningham & John Meehan | Policy Matters: Beyond the Brief
Jan
22
Thursday
Whither (wither) Healthcare?
David Walker | Policy Matters: Beyond the Brief
Jan
15
Thursday
From Life Inside the Prime Minister's Office to the World of Government Relations
Jonathan Kalles | Policy Matters: Beyond the Brief
Jan
08
Thursday
The Rise and Fall of "Visible Minority" in Canada
Debra Thompson | Policy Matters: Beyond the Brief
Nov
27
Thursday
Beyond the Consensus: Structural Issues Reshaping Canadian Immigration
Mireille Paquet | Policy Matters: Beyond the Brief
Nov
13
Thursday
Navigating Municipal Politics
Gregory Ridge | Policy Matters: Beyond the Brief
Nov
06
Thursday
Book Launch: A New Blueprint for Government: Reshaping Power, the PMO, and the Public Service
Kevin Lynch & James Mitchell | Policy Matters: Beyond the Brief
Oct
30
Thursday
Cycles of Change in Social Policy: Does the Past Point to the Future?
Keith Banting | Policy Matters: Beyond the Brief
Oct
09
Thursday
Is the global trading system broken? Why the fate of the WTO and CUSMA matter for Canada
Robert Wolfe | Policy Matters: Beyond the Brief
Oct
02
Thursday
Women, Peace, and Security at 25: Implications for Canada and NATO
Stéfanie von Hlatky | Policy Matters: Beyond the Brief
Sep
25
Thursday
The Carney Agenda: Challenges and Opportunities
Lori Turnbull | Policy Matters: Beyond the Brief
Sep
18
Thursday
Canada-US Relations in a Post-American World
Kim Richard Nossal | Policy Matters: Beyond the Brief
Sep
11
Thursday
Team Based Primary Care
Catherine Donnelly | Policy Matters: Beyond the Brief
Sep
05
Friday
Big Trends, Hard Realities: Setting the Context for Public Policy Change in Canada
Kathleen Wynne, Don Drummond, Eugene Lang, Robert Wolfe