/maxbellschool/taxonomy/term/2367/all en /maxbellschool/channels/event/webinar-monitoring-health-systems-responses-321803 <p><em>This webcast with Amélie Quesnel-Vallée is open to the public. Priority during the Q&A section of this webcast will be given to Max Bell School MPP students.</em></p> Thu, 23 Apr 2020 19:05:22 +0000 katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca 1913 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/webinar-how-can-globalization-be-governed-321539 <p>Covid-19 starkly illustrates the fragility that accompanies globalization. Climate change looms even larger, but on a timescale that has not generated the necessary sense of urgency. New concepts of governance are required. What might they be?</p> Thu, 09 Apr 2020 17:38:14 +0000 katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca 1878 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/webinar-policy-transparency-challenges-and-implications-government-responses-covid-19-321676 <p>Governments around the world are taking historic measures to flatten epidemiological and recession curves in the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic.</p> Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:40:59 +0000 katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca 1893 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/webinar-partisan-politics-during-pandemic-consensus-conflict-321714 <p>How is the COVID19 crisis affecting political partisanship? Why is it accentuated in some countries, but put aside in others? What lessons could we draw for the post-COVID-19 world?</p> Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:09:01 +0000 katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca 1897 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/webinar-health-disparities-amid-covid-19-pandemic-321745 <p>Watch the livestream of this webinar here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TItzg2BYcms">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TItzg2BYcms</a></p> Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:05:47 +0000 katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca 1903 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/webinar-food-security-time-covid-19-pandemic-321794 <p>Aurélie Harou looks at the short-term and expected long-term effects of COVID-19 on the demand and supply of food at home and internationally.</p> Thu, 23 Apr 2020 03:26:05 +0000 nicholas.salter@mcgill.ca 1911 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/postponed-webinar-challenge-journalism-abnormal-times-321243 <p>In this webinar, Professor Andrew Potter will look at the challenge of journalism in abnormal times. Register <a href="https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QJn1pQq-TKiCOOLnMIyr-g">here.</a></p> Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:47:38 +0000 yue.zeng2@mail.mcgill.ca 1828 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/webinar-looking-through-retro-scope-321744 <p>This webinar will look at why policy makers missed so many opportunities to prepare for the pandemic, and why governments frequently fail to learn from history.</p> Tue, 21 Apr 2020 17:53:38 +0000 katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca 1902 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/webinar-i-am-control-lessons-crisis-management-past-crises-321649 <p>When President Reagan was shot on March 30, 1981, Al Haig, then Secretary of State famously said:  “ As of now, I am in control at the White House”.</p> Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:08:39 +0000 yue.zeng2@mail.mcgill.ca 1882 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/webinar-harm-reduction-pandemic-times-321488 <p>As the length of the lockdown imposed by governments extends from weeks to months, policymakers must consider integrating harm reduction thinking to the way in which they define the terms and the enforcement of restrictions.</p> Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:22:42 +0000 katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca 1865 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/webinar-crisis-communications-during-covid-19-good-ugly-and-ugly-321487 <p>Everything about the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented, including policy responses and the way they are communicated. With no playbook to rely on, governments around the world are improvising on the go, with mixed responses.</p> Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:21:07 +0000 katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca 1864 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/webinar-pathogens-pandemics-and-public-liberty-321239 <p>Civil liberties were not designed for peace and social stability: they were designed to create safeguards against state incursions especially during turbulent times.</p> Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:21:07 +0000 yue.zeng2@mail.mcgill.ca 1826 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/webinar-world-oil-market-covid-19-and-international-politics-321238 <p>World oil prices have collapsed, a combined effect of COVID and an ill-timed price war --  with powerful implications for economies, climate policy, and foreign relations.</p> Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:50:28 +0000 yue.zeng2@mail.mcgill.ca 1825 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/webcast-why-cant-they-just-send-us-all-cheque-debating-crisis-basic-income-321450 <p>In this webcast moderated by Max Bell School Director Chris Ragan, watch Jennifer Robson, Associate Professor at Carleton University, and Ken Boessenkool, public-policy economist, discuss the complexity of delivering government benefits during a c</p> Thu, 02 Apr 2020 16:30:11 +0000 katrine.claassens@mcgill.ca 1856 at /maxbellschool /maxbellschool/channels/event/webinar-journalists-job-during-global-pandemic-321240 <p>The current pandemic, the biggest story since 9/11 but more intense in scope, has changed everything about the news business. It isn’t only humans who are being ravaged by the current health emergency.</p> Tue, 24 Mar 2020 19:35:23 +0000 yue.zeng2@mail.mcgill.ca 1827 at /maxbellschool