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CTV News Channel: Strength of Counterterrorism

Professor Kitchen speaks to CTV News this week on the strength of Canada's counterterrorism.

CNN: How big is Canada’s terrorism threat?

By Veronica Kitchen, Special to CNN

Editor’s note: Veronica Kitchen is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs. The views expressed are her own.

CTV News: Syria Using Chemical Weapons?

Bessma Momani appears on CTV news to speak on the allegations of Syria using chemical weapons.

Professor Sarah Eaton will be speaking at the Universitat Heidelberg for the Institute of Chinese Studies. Professor Eaton will be giving a talk The Political Economy of China's Advancing State.

Professor Andrew Cooper will be speaking at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs on March 4, 2013 with Chicago Bears lineman Israel Idonije
 

Sadly, our deprtment has learned that Professor Jack Kersell passed away on February 23, 2013.

Waterloo, Ontario (Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013) — Scholars at the University of Waterloo and St. Jerome’s University have received inaugural grants from the Chanchlani India Policy Centre (CIPC) to support research that provides policy recommendations for building stronger relations between Canada and India. Focusing on diverse areas such as natural resources, Group of Twenty (G20) cooperation, and infant health, the scholars will share their findings with academic, government, and private-sector communities.

As Canada’s final court of appeal, the Supreme Court is a crucial component of the country’s legal system. Yet, for much of its almost 140-year history, the highest court in the land dwelled in relative obscurity. More than thirty years since the advent of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which transformed the court’s function and thrust its work into the national spotlight, many of us are still in the dark about the Supreme Court’s role -- in part because there has been relatively little empirical investigation into how the institution works.

Professor Richard Nutbrown, professor of political science at the University of Waterloo, passed away peacefully on July 12, 2012. Having joined the Department in 1982, Professor Nutbrown served in the Department for nearly thirty years. The Department of Political Science will be holding a memorial service for Prof. Nutbrown in the fall term.

Angela Carter, PhD (Cornell)
Political economy; Comparative politics; Environmental policy

Emmett Macfarlane, PhD (Queen's)
Canadian politics, Public policy, Supreme Court of Canada, Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Comparative politics of Rights

Sarah Eaton, PhD (Toronto)
Chinese political economy; Chinese politics; Comparative political economy; International political economy; Asian regionalism 

"Winners and losers from the crisis: On financial prudence and the re-configuration of generosity” at the German Development Institute (DIE) in Bonn, Germany, July 26.