The CSP Funding Competition is now open. The deadline for applications is August 16, 2010. For details on eligibility criteria and to find out how to submit an application for funding, please consult the Guide and Application Form available on the CSP website at http://www.pch.gc.ca/pgm/pec-csp/index-eng.cfm.

The CSP is currently expanding its bank of external assessors to evaluate applications submitted through the Funding Competition. If you wish to be considered as an assessor, please send a request to PEC-CSP@pch.gc.ca.

Jeffrey Simpson writes about Action Canada Fellow David Helliwell in a recent Globe and Mail article “Clean energy: getting a pulse on Vancouver”.

Phillippe Ouellette is featured in an article on The Daily Gleaner, “STU grad to represent N.B. on national stage“.

Erin Spink’s hometown paper features a story about her fellowship. Read about it on page 2 of the Observer [PDF].

Canada’s foremost leadership program, Action Canada, kicks off its sixth fellowship year this weekend, introducing 17 new Fellows who will participate in a three-day conference in Vancouver May28-30.

The Fellows represent the best of Canada’s emerging leaders. They include:

• Dr. Samir Sinha, the incoming chief of geriatrics at Mount Sinai and University Health Network Hospitals in Toronto
• Mark Podlasly, a Vancouver First Nations environmental consultant to large capital resource projects
• Shannon Wells, a research and policy analyst with Intergovernmental Affairs, Privy Council Office, Ottawa
• Derek Dunfield, a Portland, ON neuroscientist studying behavioural economics
• Scott Robertson, a chief nursing officer in the Northwest Territories
• Kyle Hill, a Yarmouth, NS physicist researching in the field of medical imaging

For all fellows’ bios: http://www.actioncanada.ca/en/fellows/fellows/20102011-fellows/

The Vancouver Conference

The Vancouver conference is the first of six to be held across Canada during the 11-month program as Fellows meet and learn from Canadians who are leaders in their field.

Featured presenters include John Furlong, former CEO, VANOC and new advisory board chair for Own the Podium; Cathy Priestner Allinger, VANOC’s former executive vice-president, sport and games operations; Tewanee Joseph, executive director and CEO, Four Host First Nations Society, as well as MP Andrew Saxton and former Canada Line CEO Jane Bird. In addition, Canadian journalists Jeffrey Simpson, Jacquie McNish, Andrew Cohen and Stephen Hume will teach Fellows the finer points of writing op-eds on policy issues of significance to Canada.

Please check the Action Canada website in December for information on a call for nominations, new programming details and 2010/11 dates.

We sincerely thank those who have stood as candidates and those who generously supported nominees this year. We also thank the many Canadians, coast to coast to coast, who have been an important part of the success of Action Canada in its first mandate.

We hope the program is offered in 2010/2011 so that our network of 86 outstanding Fellows continues to grow and work to make Canada the best it can be.

This half-day conference will focus on major public policy issues facing Canada and what emerging business leaders can do to address these issues. We have an outstanding line up of Canadian business leaders for this dialogue on timely and important questions.

Our keynote speaker will be the Hon. Diane Ablonczy, Minister of State (Small Business and Tourism). Dialogue participants include: Jacquie McNish, Columnist, The Globe and Mail; Ken Smith, Managing Partner, SECOR Consulting; Jim Stanford, Chief Economist, Canadian Auto Workers; Lynton (Red) Wilson, Chancellor, McMaster University. The morning dialogue sessions will be moderated by Jodi White, former President, Public Policy Forum.

Action Canada is a national fellowship program that strengthens promising young Canadians’ leadership skills, enriches their understanding of Canada and creates a network of skilled leaders for the future. For more information on Action Canada please visit www.actioncanada.ca.

The Public Policy Forum engages leaders in the public, private and voluntary sectors, serving as an independent forum for open dialogue on public policy, encouraging reform in public sector management. Please visit www.ppforum.ca to learn more about the PPF.

Pre-event registration and coffee reception will begin at 8:00 am. A networking lunch with our keynote speaker will follow at 12:15 pm at the TSX Gallery.

For additional information or to RSVP please contact Dianne Gravel-Normand at dianne.gravel@ppforum.ca or by phone at (613) 238-7858 ext. 233.

David Eaves ’05 and Taylor Owen ’07 are the winners of The Literary Review of Canada’s New Voices competition for their essay, “Progressivism’s End”.
The competition, which was seeking fresh perspectives to showcase alongside established contributors such as Lloyd Axworthy, Peter C. Newman and Erna Paris, asked competitors to write about what the dramatic U.S. nomination and presidential race would mean for Canada.

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The Harper government is trying to figure out the answer. If the answer is yes, don’t be surprised if Green Bonds arrive in the next budget and at financial institutions thereafter. And if Green Bonds materialize, credit a small group of young Canadians for the idea.

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