public policy /newsroom/taxonomy/term/3067/all en Vivek Venkatesh /newsroom/vivek-venkatesh Wed, 03 Jul 2024 14:55:47 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 310714 at /newsroom Pearl Eliadis /newsroom/pearl-eliadis Tue, 15 Dec 2020 18:34:14 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 253323 at /newsroom Experts: Federal elections 2019 /newsroom/channels/news/experts-federal-elections-2019-299979 <p>Here are the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ experts available to comment on the upcoming Canadian Federal Election. The election is scheduled to take place on October 21, 2019.</p> Tue, 27 Aug 2019 18:53:36 +0000 mona.noonoo@mail.mcgill.ca 187518 at /newsroom Airbnb is removing rental housing in Canadian cities and rural areas /newsroom/channels/news/airbnb-removing-rental-housing-canadian-cities-and-rural-areas-297920 <p>The American online marketplace Airbnb has likely removed approximately 31,100 units from Canada’s long-term rental markets. This could make it difficult for Canadian cities and provinces to prevent growing housing affordability issues.</p> Wed, 19 Jun 2019 20:12:25 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 170476 at /newsroom Garvin Brown & Steffanie Diamond Brown boost public policy at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ, endowing Chair in Democratic Studies /newsroom/channels/news/garvin-brown-steffanie-diamond-brown-boost-public-policy-mcgill-endowing-chair-democratic-studies-286995 <p><span>A $5-million gift from ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈians G. Garvin Brown IV, BA’91, and his wife Steffanie Diamond Brown, will make a major contribution to research and teaching at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Max Bell School of Public Policy by establishing an endowed Chair in Democratic Studies. The Chair will promote further scholarship and public outreach, encourage public discussion of key challenges facing the world’s democracies, and contribute to evidence-based policy decision-making.</span></p> Wed, 02 May 2018 19:41:16 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 38999 at /newsroom A $10-million donation establishes a new school of public policy at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University /newsroom/channels/news/10-million-donation-establishes-new-school-public-policy-mcgill-university-282458 <p><span>In a world of political polarization, environmental threats, a changing labour market and growing gaps between rich and poor, there has never been a greater need to engage in a thoughtful examination of public policy and train a new generation of policy leaders.</span></p> <p>Against this backdrop, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University is pleased to announce that it has received a $10-million donation from Max Bell Foundation to establish a new school of public policy at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ. The School will reside in ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Faculty of Arts.</p> Mon, 06 Nov 2017 20:23:20 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 32643 at /newsroom Antonia Maioni /newsroom/antonia-maioni Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 22562 at /newsroom Death by prescription painkiller /newsroom/channels/news/death-prescription-painkiller-237140 Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:24:26 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 20889 at /newsroom