This graduate seminar-style training program teaches journalists how to use an economic lens to analyze Canadian and global policies. The complexity of some policy issues is daunting. While economic reasoning doesn’t guarantee resolution of the issues, it is a powerful tool for critical thinking. The ability to determine opportunity cost, identify incentives, and predict resulting behavior will help journalists set aside the emotion surrounding policy issues and bring clarity to the discussion of current events.
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The 33rd Annual Dr. Harold Walter Siebens Lecture and Luncheon will be held following the Institute’s AGM with the Honourable John Baird, former Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Baird’s talk will be on the new political reality in the US and the challenge it presents for Canada.
This graduate seminar-style training program is for journalists seeking to enhance their economic knowledge and reporting skills, and network with their peers. Through lectures, simulations, and discussions, three experienced economics professors will demonstrate how economics can be used to better understand the world around us, and provide real, relevant examples from Canadian society.
With materials updated in 2017, this workshop provides teachers with an interactive learning experience that examines recent economic recession and the resulting impact on economic freedom and global prosperity.
Through the implementation of a variety of activities, resources, and assignments, learn how intricate economics terms, that usually confuse students, can become familiar topics.
With materials updated in 2017, this workshop provides teachers with an interactive learning experience that examines recent economic recession and the resulting impact on economic freedom and global prosperity.
This graduate seminar-style training program is for journalists seeking to enhance their economic knowledge and reporting skills, and network with their peers. Through lectures, simulations, and discussions, three experienced economics professors will demonstrate how economics can be used to better understand the world around us, and provide real, relevant examples from Canadian society.
This fun one-day seminar consists of a mix of short lectures, games and activities that introduce economic principles using real-life examples.
This fun one-day seminar consists of a mix of short lectures, games and activities that introduce economic principles using real-life examples.
This fun one-day seminar consists of a mix of short lectures, games and activities that introduce economic principles using real-life examples.