April 7, 2020
Each year, the U of T Women in House program takes female University of Toronto students on a subsidized two-day trip to Ottawa and provides them with an opportunity to shadow female politicians on Parliament Hill, witness political procedures, and learn about gender equality. Hear from PCJ students about their experience.
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March 24, 2020
PCJ student Uma Kalkar co-founded a non-profit organization, The Institute for Civic Organizing, or “TICO.” Its mission: to provide grade-appropriate curricula, syllabi and lesson plans for K-12 and university educators, empowering them to introduce civic organizing principles and possibilities to youth.
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March 11, 2020
Chris Snyder is a member of the Trudeau Centre Advisory Board. He is a pioneer in the personal finance business and co-founder and chair of the ECC Group. He has authored many articles and five books on personal finance. His most recent...
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January 16, 2020
Fourth-year PCJ student Uma Kalkar recounts her experience interning at Beautiful World Canada as part of PCJ499: Advanced Service Learning course. In this course, students have the opportunity to immerse themselves in an NGO doing work that interests them and...
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December 5, 2019
When you think of how peace is constructed, what do you imagine? Negotiations, written treaties, large conferences — these are the tools by which centuries of conflict have been framed and ‘solved’ in the vision of interstate co-operation. But tools...
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November 18, 2019
PCJ Fellow Michele At-Amant delivered a seminar on Tuesday, November 12, in which she presented her research on predictability of US intervention in failed states.
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October 15, 2019
Professor Patricia Justino is a researcher at UNU-WIDER and the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. On Monday October 7, 2019, she delivered the 7th Annual Frank W. Woods Lecture. One of her major areas of research is...
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October 9, 2019
PCJ student, Charlotte Astle, and Professor Jessica Green talk about climate week, Greta Thunberg and the merits of a Green New Deal.
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May 10, 2019
By Natalie Boychuk Travelling to Washington, D.C. twice over the 2017-2018 school year was a memorable experience. From listening to Congresswoman Debbie Dingell speak about the Zuckerberg trial, meeting Senator Bernie Sanders, and speaking with prominent members of the U.S....
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April 1, 2019
U of T Women in House is a program co-founded and co-managed by Tina Park and the Honourable Carolyn Bennett aimed at promoting greater female representation in government. Each year, the program takes female University of Toronto students on a...
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