Past Events

Immigration and Pluralism: Trends, Options, Management

Conference presented by the Centre for Global Challenges, the Trudeau Foundation and the École nationale d'administration publique (ÉNAP) in Québec City, January 27, 2011.

Read accounts by Paul Wells and by Chloé Bourguignon and Jonathan Picavet.

Watch videos of the panelists here.

Cabinet shuffle: will John Kent take climate change seriously?

Radio interview given by Alexandre Brassard to the French CBC morning show: "Y'a pas deux matins pareils" on January 5th, 2011.

2010 in Toronto: social inequalities, G20 and Rob Ford

Radio interview given by Alexandre Brassard to the French CBC morning show: "Y'a pas deux matins pareils" on December 20,2010.

On the Vaughan By-Election

Radio interview given by Alexandre Brassard to the French CBC morning show: "Y'a pas deux matins pareils" on December 20, 2010.

Making Public Management Work in the Global Economy: Lessons from Europe and North America

Conference at Central Michigan University organized by the Griffin policy Forum and Academic Conference, September 23-25, 2010. Participation of the Director and a Fellow of the Centre for Global Challenges.

A) Opening Panel. Moderator: Dr. Alex Himelfarb, Director, Centre for Global Challenges. Panelists:

  1. Mark Gaffney, President, Michigan AFL-CIO
  2. Frederick W. Hoffman, Former Vice-President of Government Relations, Chrysler
  3. Greg Main, President and CEO, Michigan Economic Development Corp.
  4. Hon. Marco Nobili, Consul General of Italy in Detroit
  5. Hon. Roy B. Norton, Consul General of Canada in Detroit
  6. Rich Studley, President and CEO, Michigan Chamber of Commerce

B) Panel on Governance and Accountability in the Global Economy. Panelists:

  1. Denita Cepiku, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
  2. Alex Himelfarb, Director, Centre for Global Challenges and Glendon School of Public and International Affairs
  3. Stanley “Skip” Pruss, 5 Lakes Energy, LLC
  4. Ian Roberge, Glendon College, York University, Fellow of the CGC.
  5. J. Cherie Strachan, Central Michigan University

Read accounts by Alex Himelfarb and Ian Roberge (in French).

Download conference abstracts and papers.

Health Care Transformation and Sustainability

Public Panel with Alex Himelfarb, Director of the Centre for Global Challenges, Annual Conference of the Canadian Medical Association, Niagara Falls, August 22, 2010. Read account in The Montreal Gazette.

Watershed Moment or Wasted Opportunity?

Summer Conference, Couchiching Institute for Public Affairs, August 6, 2010.

  1. Angela Redish, Professor, UBC. Watch highlights (from 00:35 to 03:45)
  2. Nicholas Le Pan, Board Member, Canadian Public Accountability Board. Watch highlights (from 03:45 to 05:20)
  3. Ann Golden, President, Conference Board of Canada. Watch highlights (from 05:21 to 07:11)
  4. Tom Jenkins, Chair, OpenText Corp. Watch highlights (from 07:12 to 07:46)
  5. Tom Flanagan, Professor, University of Calgary. Watch highlights (from 07:47 to 09:09)
  6. Armine Yalnizyan, Economist, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Watch highlights (from 09:10 to 10:34)
  7. Alex Himelfarb, Director, Centre for Global Challenges. Watch highlights (from 10:35 to 12:41)

Read accounts of the event by Alex Himelfarb and by the Globe & Mail.

A Liberal-NDP Merging?

Television Interview given By Alexandre Brassard, Coordinator of the Centre for Global Challenges, Le Téléjournal de l'Ontario, CBC, June 9, 2010. Watch the interview (from 29:33 to 33:18)

This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Economic Folly

Lunch-talk organized by Canada 2020 in partnership with the Centre for Global Challenges, Château Laurier, Ottawa, June 11, 2010.

Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Rogoff, Economics Professor at Harvard University and former Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund.

Read accounts of the event by Alex Himelfarb, Jeffrey Simpson or Alexandre Brassard (in French).

On The Justice System

Panel at the Judicial Conference of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, May 27-29, 2010.  Panelists:

  1. Alex Himelfarb, Director of the Centre for Global Challenges.
  2. Janice Stein, Professor, University of Toronto.
  3. John Richard English, Professor, University of Waterloo.
Pre-departure Integration Tests in the EU: Supporting Integration or Immigration Control?

Talk organized by Professor Willem Maas, Jean Monnet Chairholder, Glendon School of Public and International Affairs, May 13, 2010.

Guest speaker: Dr. Kees Groenendijk, emeritus Professor of Sociology of Law at the University of Nijmegen, Chairman of its Centre for Migration Law, and Chairman of the Standing Committee of Experts on international immigration, refugee and criminal law. Listen to the talk

After the Meltdown: The Limits and Possibilities of Economics.

Inaugural Conference, Centre for Global Challenges, Glendon College, York University, 24 March, 2010.

Welcoming Remarks:

  1. Mamdouh Shoukri, President and Vice-Chancellor, York University. Watch
  2. Alex Himelfarb, Director, Centre for Global Challenges. Watch
  3. Chaviva Hošek, President and CEO, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Watch

Presentations:

  1. Eugene Lang, Moderator of the panel, Vice-President, Bluesky Strategy Group.
  2. George Akerlof, Nobel Prize in Economics Laureate, University of California, Berkeley: "Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism". Watch it
  3. Pierre Fortin, Professor of Economics, Université du Québec à Montréal: "The Recession, Demographic Change, and Economic Growth: What to do Now ?". (in French). Watch it
  4. Tim Besley, Kuwait Professor of Economics and Political Science, London School of Economics: "After the Meltdown: Policy and Political Economy". Watch it

Concluding Remarks by Alex Himelfarb. Watch it

Questions and Answers with Irvin Studin, Editor in Chief of Global Brief. Watch it

Read accounts by Alex Himelfarb, Alexandre Brassard, Gabriel Sekaly, Vincent Muller, Marika Kemeny or Dominique Millette.

On The Federal Budget

Television panel, CTV Question Period, March 7, 2010. Panelists:

  1. Alex Himelfarb, Director of the Centre for Global Challenges.
  2. Carole Taylor, Senior Advisor, TD Bank.
  3. Tom Flanagan, Professor, University of Calgary.

Watch the panel

Transformational Leadership for Today's Public Service

Panel, National Leadership Conference and Awards, The Institute of Public Administration of Canada, Ottawa, September 23, 2009.

Moderator: Gabriel Sekaly, CEO, Institute of Public Administration of Canada .

Panelists:

  1. Alex Himelfarb, Director of the Centre for Global Challenges.
  2. Tony Dean, former Ontario Secretary of the Cabinet, Fellow in residence at the School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto.
  3. Shirley Hoy, former City Manager, City of Toronto, CEO of Toronto Lands Corp.

Read an account from Gabriel Sekaly.

Framing the Context of Federal-Provincial Relations

Talk given by Alex Himelfarb to the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Meeting of Deputy Ministers of Intergovernmental Affairs, Toronto, January 7, 2009.

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