Upcoming Big Thinking lectures
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Austerity for prosperity? How women and men are faring in the Canadian economy
Dr. Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Economist, Professor of Political Science and Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University
April 28, 2021
- Big Thinking video
- Interview on CBC Ottawa Morning
- Article in The Hill Times (subscriber content)
- Photos
Three game-changing Ontario discoveries at Ontario and Canada Research Chairs Symposium in Toronto
Michael Geist, Ron Deibert and Gerald McMaster
April 1, 2021
This event was organized in partnership with the Council of Ontario Universities
Extreme weather and climate: Measured response?
Ronald Stewart, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, and Professor in the Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba
Daniel Scott, University Research Chair in Climate and Society, Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3), and Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo
March 26, 2021
This event was organized in partnership with PAGSE and sponsored by Engineers Canada
Judicial activism and the role of courts in providing remedies
Kent Roach, Trudeau Fellow, Professor of Law, and Prichard-Wilson Chair of Law and Public Policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law
February 5, 2021
This event was sponsored by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation
- Big Thinking video
- Article in the Ottawa Citizen
- Interview on CBC Ottawa Morning
- Interview on CTV Power Play
- Photos
Mythes et science: The ideology of “standard” language
Shana Poplack, Canada Research Chair in Linguistics, Distinguished Professor at the University of Ottawa and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
November 21, 2020
This event was sponsored by the Royal Society of Canada
The Impact of "Big Data" on our health care system: What to expect?
Bartha Knoppers, Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics at McGill University and Canada Research Chair in Law and Medicine
October 30, 2020
This event was sponsored by Genome Canada.
- Big Thinking video
- Article in The Hill Times
- Article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal
- Photos
Bringing Quebec Back In
Guy Laforest, professor in Université Laval’s political science department
October 9, 2020
Why Don’t We Get Along?
Jim Miller, Canada Research Chair in Native-Newcomer Relations and a Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan
September 18, 2020
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Big Thinking
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