News & Events
Upcoming Events
May 2012 | ||
| Title: | A Call to Action: Building Partnerships for Safer Communities | |
| Date and Time: | May 28, 2012 7:00 pm - May 28, 2012 9:30 pm | |
| Regina Location: | Radisson Plaza Hotel Saskatchewan, 2125 Victoria Avenue, Regina, SK | |
| Description: | Reception for participants of the Call to Action symposium on May 29 & 30, 2012. For more information, please visit the symposium website (select News & Events, then Conferences and the Call to Action symposium). | |
| Contact: |
Kendra Gellner Conference Coordinator (306) 585-5866 | |
| Click here for details | ||
| Title: | A Call to Action: Building Partnerships for Safer Communities | |
| Date and Time: | May 29, 2012 7:45 am - May 29, 2012 7:00 pm | |
| Regina Location: | Radisson Plaza Hotel Saskatchewan, 2125 Victoria Avenue, Regina, SK | |
| Description: | Even with strong economic and population growth, many of our communities are experiencing challenges that affect the ability of citizens to participate in community life. The Call to Action symposium will bring together a cross-section of groups, organizations and individuals who can make a difference in fostering safer communities. Through interactive panel discussions, workshops and presentations, the symposium will encourage participants to share insight, information and ideas; identify community assets and needs; discuss how successful models can be adapted to address local situations; and develop tools and networks of contacts to support community change. Highlights Include: • A keynote address on the work undertaken by the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit in Glasgow, Scotland, and how this was applied in the Prince Albert Community Mobilization Project • A keynote address on investing in children and families presented by Professor Paul Kershaw with the Human Early Learning Partnership at the University of British Columbia • Panel discussions featuring community leaders on building relationships; understanding and preventing victimization; integration and collaboration; reintegration; and developing tools for change This event is presented by the following partners: • Ministry of Justice and Attorney General, Government of Saskatchewan • Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy • Ministry of Corrections, Public Safety and Policing, Government of Saskatchewan • Ministry of First Nations and Métis Relations, Government of Saskatchewan • Saskatchewan police community With generous support from the following sponsors: • Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority • Information Services Corporation of Saskatchewan • SGI CANADA For more information, please visit the symposium website (select News & Events, then Conferences and the Call to Action symposium). | |
| Contact: |
Kendra Gellner Conference Coordinator (306) 585-5866 | |
| Click here for details | ||
| Title: | A Call to Action: Building Partnerships for Safer Communities | |
| Date and Time: | May 30, 2012 7:30 am - May 30, 2012 5:00 pm | |
| Regina Location: | Radisson Plaza Hotel Saskatchewan, 2125 Victoria Avenue, Regina, SK | |
| Description: | Even with strong economic and population growth, many of our communities are experiencing challenges that affect the ability of citizens to participate in community life. The Call to Action symposium will bring together a cross-section of groups, organizations and individuals who can make a difference in fostering safer communities. Through interactive panel discussions, workshops and presentations, the symposium will encourage participants to share insight, information and ideas; identify community assets and needs; discuss how successful models can be adapted to address local situations; and develop tools and networks of contacts to support community change. Highlights Include: • A keynote address on the work undertaken by the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit in Glasgow, Scotland, and how this was applied in the Prince Albert Community Mobilization Project • A keynote address on investing in children and families presented by Professor Paul Kershaw with the Human Early Learning Partnership at the University of British Columbia • Panel discussions featuring community leaders on building relationships; understanding and preventing victimization; integration and collaboration; reintegration; and developing tools for change This event is presented by the following partners: • Ministry of Justice and Attorney General, Government of Saskatchewan • Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy • Ministry of Corrections, Public Safety and Policing, Government of Saskatchewan • Ministry of First Nations and Métis Relations, Government of Saskatchewan • Saskatchewan police community With generous support from the following sponsors: • Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority • Information Services Corporation of Saskatchewan • SGI CANADA For more information, please visit the symposium website (select News & Events, then Conferences and the Call to Action symposium). | |
| Contact: |
Kendra Gellner Conference Coordinator (306) 585-5866 | |
| Click here for details | ||
June 2012 | ||
| Title: | JSGS Policy Change Lecture Series | |
| Saskatoon Location: | Prairie Room, Diefenbaker Building, University of Saskatchewan Campus | |
| Regina Location: | JSGS Window Room, 2nd Floor, Gallery Building, University of Regina, College Avenue Campus | |
| Description: | Maarten Hajer is professor of public policy at the University of Amsterdam. In 2008, the Dutch Cabinet appointed him as director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL). As director, Hajer is responsible for the strategic assessments and policy evaluations to facilitate political deliberation and decision making, ranging from environment, nature and land use, to water and transport. Hajer is the author of more the ten books, including The Politics of Environmental Discourse. | |
| Contact: |
Karen Jaster-Laforge (306) 585-5869 | |
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September 2012 | ||
| Title: | Public Workshop: Governance Essentials | |
| Speaker(s): |
Facilitated by David Brown, Executive Director, Brown Governance, Inc. and Dan Perrins, Director, Outreach & Training, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy | |
| Date and Time: | September 12, 2012 9:00 am - September 12, 2012 4:30 pm | |
| Regina Location: | Travelodge Hotel and Conference Centre, Cambridge Room, 4177 Albert Street | |
| Description: | Brown Governance Inc. (BGI) and the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (JSGS) are very pleased to offer this corporate governance education workshop for directors as they seek to develop and excel in governance and board effectiveness by covering the basic elements of board governance that all directors need to know. This interactive and experiential workshop is designed to bring a principles-based governance context and clarity to the roles, duties, responsibilities and relationships of the board, Chair, management, board committees and the principal(s)-owner(s). Topics will focus on the leadership and stewardship aspects of governance – the directional side of the system. It will also include focusing on the monitoring and reporting aspects of governance - the control side of the system. This workshop will go a step beyond the nuts and bolts of governance to explore the effects of the behavioural and relational elements of governance. | |
| Contact: |
Gillian Borys (306) 585-5889 | |
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| Title: | Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care | |
| Saskatoon Location: | Hilton Garden Inn, Saskatoon, SK | |
| Description: | The sustainability of health care in Canada has become a recurring question among policy-makers, media pundits and scholars. The ensuing debate on this question has produced more heat than light, polarizing both individuals and organizations on the merits and demerits of public health care, hampering constructive debate and change. For example, during the recent health care debate in the United States, the central theme was whether the health care reform of 2010 could bend the cost curve down–a key point given abnormally high US health care costs relative to other OECD countries–with opponents arguing it would do the opposite. The debate was highly inflammatory, and evidence of past sustainability as well as rigorous analyses of future sustainability took a back seat to emotion and ideology. Perhaps Canadians can take heart that a similar debate concerning sustainability is occurring in most OECD countries. More importantly, we may have something important to learn from health care financing and spending in other countries. With significant international participation from academics, researchers, health sector leaders, and those managing public sector finances, this conference will be devoted to the issue of the future of universal health care in Canada, one of the country’s most defining policies. | |
| Contact: | For more information, contact us at 306.585.5866 or . | |
| Click here for details | ||
| Title: | Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care | |
| Saskatoon Location: | Hilton Garden Inn, Saskatoon, SK | |
| Description: | The sustainability of health care in Canada has become a recurring question among policy-makers, media pundits and scholars. The ensuing debate on this question has produced more heat than light, polarizing both individuals and organizations on the merits and demerits of public health care, hampering constructive debate and change. For example, during the recent health care debate in the United States, the central theme was whether the health care reform of 2010 could bend the cost curve down–a key point given abnormally high US health care costs relative to other OECD countries–with opponents arguing it would do the opposite. The debate was highly inflammatory, and evidence of past sustainability as well as rigorous analyses of future sustainability took a back seat to emotion and ideology. Perhaps Canadians can take heart that a similar debate concerning sustainability is occurring in most OECD countries. More importantly, we may have something important to learn from health care financing and spending in other countries. With significant international participation from academics, researchers, health sector leaders, and those managing public sector finances, this conference will be devoted to the issue of the future of universal health care in Canada, one of the country’s most defining policies. | |
| Contact: | For more information, contact us at 306.585.5866 or . | |
| Click here for details | ||