By Mariel Angus | Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 - 10:27AM
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The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States last Tuesday was a historical event, and has in many ways ushered in a new era of relations between Canada and the U.S. This was evident only the day after the election, when Ottawa announced its intention to seek a climate-change pact with our American neighbours. Read more »
The massive oil sands developments currently unfolding in northeast Alberta are yielding complicated energy and economic paybacks as well as presenting many social, economic, political and environmental risks and costs. How should society analyze, interact and respond to these enormous developments? How can we discern whether the implicated actors are being responsible, or determine whether governments have historically, and are currently, playing appropriate public justice roles? In other words, how can we develop stewardly, equitable, and just policy responses and action-plans in response to the oil sands boom? Read more »
CPJ has long used public justice to analyze critical policy questions. How can this approach help us make sense of the explosive, global issues growing out of the oil sands? Dr. John Hiemstra examines if it is time to explore new approaches, and begins to develop what the public justice approach can do to help us figure out what we and our governments ought to do about this expanding issue. Read more »
One of the challenges in public policy work is measuring outcomes. In CPJ’s poverty reduction strategy campaign, we advocate that such a strategy requires “mechanisms of accountability and poverty indicators to monitor progress.” Coming up with an agreed upon poverty indicator is not easy, but is an important step in measuring progress on reducing poverty. Measuring poverty requires looking at looking at a wider view of the nature of poverty, and also at the wider view of the nature of well-being. Read more »
CPJ has long used public justice to analyze critical policy questions. How can this approach help us make sense of the explosive, global issues growing out of the oil sands? Dr. John Hiemstra examines if it is time to explore new approaches, and begins to develop what the public justice approach can do to help us figure out what we and our governments ought to do about this expanding issue. 
