February 2022
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Friday, February 25, 2022
Political Science professor Dr. Ruben Zaiotti and IDS professor Dr. Robert Huish share their insight on the local and global impact of Russia's attack on Ukraine. Read more here.
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Friday, February 25, 2022
Dr. Katherine Fierlbeck shares her insight on the polarization of debate around the truckers protest. Read more here.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Dr. Louise Carbert was appointed to the Nova Scotia Commission for the Redistribution of Federal Electoral Districts. Stay posted for maps showing the proposed new boundaries.
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Friday, February 18, 2022
The Department is pleased to announce that co-PIs Peter Berman (UBC), Sara Allin (U of T), and Katherine Fierlbeck (Dal) have won a CIHR project grant looking at the institutional, political, organizational, and governance factors that underlie the wide variation in the effectiveness of governmental responses to COVID-19. The $612,000 grant will use a mixed-methods case study approach with an innovative focus on how these upstream determinants influence governments鈥� effective activation of public health systems and capacities during a crisis. This study incorporates key CIHR priority interests in research to strengthen public health systems in Canada and spans across four provinces: British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia.