Walter Gordon Symposium — Policymaking for a Well Society

This year’s Symposium is entitled “Policymaking for a Well Society”. It will focus in on three major themes at the core of how our societies thrive or struggle - environment, health and housing. By dissecting each of these policy topics in detail this year’s symposium hopes to make us reflect on where we have done well and where we can do better.

Keynote — John Ibbitson of The Globe & Mail

We are pleased to welcome John Ibbitson of the Globe and Mail as the keynote for the 2020 Walter Gordon Symposium. He will be speaking on his recent book, co-authored with Darrell Bricker, “Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline” followed by a question and answer session.

The Walter Gordon Symposium is named after the Hon. Walter Gordon, who was Minister of Finance and President of the Privy Council under the government of Lester B. Pearson. The annual series, which began in 1990 under the leadership of then head of the College, Ann Saddlemeyer, was designed to present a topic of immediate Canadian significance to an interested audience drawn from academic, corporate and government worlds.

The event is co-sponsored by Massey College and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy with support by Tom Axworthy (Massey’s Chair in Public Policy) and Carolyn Tuohy (Distinguished Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Senior Fellow, Massey College).

Agenda

9:30 a.m. - Registration and Breakfast (Massey College Junior Common Room)

10:15 a.m. - Opening Remarks (Massey College Upper Library) 

10:30 a.m. - Panel 1: Health (Massey College Upper Library) 

• Gayle Bursey — Director of Healthy Public Policy - City of Toronto
• Dr. Andrew Boozary — Executive Director of Health and Social Policy - University Health Network
• Altaf Kassam — Director of Information Management and Privacy - Children’s Aid Society of Toronto (Formerly Director of Health Information, Performance Management and Analytics - St. Joseph’s Health Centre)

12:00 p.m. - Coffee break (Massey College Junior Common Room)

12:15 p.m. - Panel 2: Housing (Massey College Upper Library) 

• David Hulchanski — Professor - Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto
• Margie Carlson — Executive Director - Inter Faith Homes Group
• Alyssa Brierley — Executive Director & General Counsel - Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation
• A Representative of Evergreen Future Cities of Canada

1:30 p.m. - Lunch [Provided] (Massey College Junior Common Room)

2:30 p.m. - Panel 3: Environment (Massey College Upper Library) 

• Michelle Molnar — Environmental Economist - David Suzuki Foundation
• John Robinson — Professor - Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and the School of the Environment, at the University of Toronto
• Douglas Macdonald — Senior Lecturer Emeritus - School of the Environment at the University of Toronto
• Kelsey Scarfone — Program Manager (Water) - Environmental Defence

3:45 p.m. - Closing Remarks (Massey College Upper Library) 

4:00 p.m. - Dinner Break [Dinner Not Provided]

6:30 p.m. - Keynote (Innis Town Hall, Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, ON M5S 1J5)

• John Ibbitson of the Globe & Mail — Speaking on his recent book, co-authored with Darrell Bricker, Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline

Registration

FREE

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