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Business and Social Sciences Fall 2016 Newsletter

July 2016 Community Day Display – I Love Agricultural Economics

IN THIS ISSUE

The past year has been particularly busy, with many activities and accomplishments.

The Senate review of academic programs in the Faculty of Agriculture was started in our Department, through which our Department completed an initial self-study report and external review for each of the three majors.

In addition, during this period, following the announcement of MPHEC approval of the new BTech

(Small Business Management), we immediately started with a comprehensive marketing and communication plan which saw the development/signing of an Articulation Agreement with the Nova Scotia Community College. Plans are in progress to develop similar agreements with Holland College and New Brunswick Community College. The first cohort of BTech (SBM) students will start in Sept 2016.

Renewed student engagement resulted in some of our students participating in various activities, with remarkable achievements by several students in our academic programs, at the Diploma, undergraduate and graduate levels. Four students from our Department represented Dalhousie at the 2016 Canadian Produce Marketing Association Trade Show and Career Pathways Program in Calgary, Alberta. Emma Eisses, IFB graduate, was recipient of the 2016 Nova Scotia International Business

Development Internship, under which Ms. Eisses completed a seven-month internship with the Canadian Embassy in Reykjavik, Iceland. This paid internship funded by the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture, is a competition open to graduates from Dalhousie Faculty of Agriculture and Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University. Peter Thiesen, fourth-year BSc (Agr) Agribusiness student, won first place in the Global

IIndex - Feature from Department Chair

- Announcements/Events

- Teaching: Innovation & Technology

- Profile on BSS Faculty/Staff

- BSS Research

- BSS Students: Engagement and Outreach

- Community and Industry Outreach

WELCOME MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR by Emmanuel Yiridoe

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Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) Atlantic Canada competition, and represented the region at the National competition in Toronto in February 2016.

The success was not limited to only our undergraduate students. Second

year DBM student, Dan McCallum, was recipient of the 2016 Ronald A. Chisholm Scholarship, by the Canadian Meat Science Association. In addition, former MSc student, David Thibodeau (with Dr. Stephen Clark as major supervisor), won the 2016 Canadian Agricultural Economics

Society masters Thesis Award. The next year is expected to be another exciting one.

Announcements/Events We said a fond farewell to Carollyn Crewe on her retirement, after more than 30 years of dedicated service to NSAC/Dalhousie.

We wish to welcome Dr. Ou Wang to the Department, as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with Dr. Somogyi’s supervisor.

Dr. Wang will be working on a NS Department of Agriculture/Fisheries & Aquaculture funded Shellfish Value Chain research project. Dr. Wang arrived in June 2016, and will be working in the department for 2 years. Dr. Wang recently received his PhD from Ghent University, in Belgium.

Dr He Jin arrived in March 2016, as visiting professor from Huazhong

Agricultural University in China. Dr. Jin’s sabbatical leave will end in March 2017.

Welcome to Ms. Alyssa Gerhardt. Ms. Gerhardt was a Research Associate working on Dr. Somogyi's Genome Atlantic research project. Alyssa completed her employment in June 2016. We thank her for her hard work, and wish her success in the future.

A team-teaching format was used to teach Introductory Microeconomics to second year students located in our partner institution, the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (FAFU), in China during Spring 2016. Ninety-one students were enrolled in the class, with the students from various academic options in the FAFU (2+2) program. The course started in March, during which some of the lectures were video-conferenced from DAL-AC (in Nova Scotia) to the FAFU campus (in China). During April/May, Prof Dunlop spent two weeks (or 30 hours in total) teaching another component of the course on the FAFU campus. For another three weeks between video conferencing and spending time on the FAFU campus, FAFU co-instructor, Dr. Junlin He, also taught the course. In total, the students had 50 hours of instruction.

The course consisted of a number of lectures, in-class assignments, in-class exercises, take-home

assignments, and tests. Assignments helped the students better understand the course material, and also allowed for more interaction between the professors and the students.

Team-teaching can be interactive, participant–observer, or of a rotational form. In the interactive team-teaching format, all the professors are present in the class simultaneously, with all instructors actively participating in the lecture and commenting on each topic being discussed. The participant-observer format requires both

professors to be present in all lectures, with one professor presenting while the other gives little or no dialogue. The observer-professor may only give input if students ask questions or if the instructor chooses to offer a viewpoint. In the rotational team-teaching format, the individual professors teach classes separately and attend class only when teaching their specific areas of the course.

The FAFU course was offered using the participant-observer team-teaching format. In the video conferencing lectures and while Prof Dunlop was in China, both professors attended all lectures, but Prof Dunlop was the main presenter. Dr. He added input to the class when students asked questions or when she thought students were not understanding the content. This allowed students to better understand the course material from two different instructor viewpoints.

Important Insights from Team-Teaching China Course by Diane Dunlop

TEACHING: INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY

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Team teaching in a different culture also offers a number of challenges and opportunities. Both professors were able to apply their unique cultural backgrounds, areas of strength and expertise to the teaching. This can have a positive impact on student learning. For example, the FAFU students were able to practice their English in and outside the classroom. Students also had access to more teaching resources outside the classroom, and were exposed to more knowledge within the classroom. Instructors from the two countries and cultures also incorporated Chinese and Canadian experiences and examples, thereby increasing the students’ breadth of knowledge.

Students were very active participants in the classroom and were very interested in the course content. This teaching approach resulted in the students doing very well in the course (course average was high). In addition, the students were excited about what they had learned (as illustrated by the level of interaction and discussion in the classroom). Apart from the positive impact on student learning, this teaching style also increased the experience of Prof. Dunlop in teaching undergraduate students in a different culture.

Shortly after joining Dal-AC in 2011, I received my PhD in marketing from McGill University in Montreal. My research primarily focuses on food consumption and eating behaviors. In the context of healthy eating promotion, I have been studying social-cultural influences, personalities, lifestyles, and contextual factors that shape consumers’ food choice and eating patterns.

Part of my PhD dissertation focuses on how social and family environment can influence daily food consumption. Built on this, my first study after joining Dal-AC revealed a protective mechanism of home environment on healthy food consumption, that is, the home is a privileged environment that nurtures healthy eating, in which healthier food choices trigger and are triggered by positive emotions. Such positive feedback between good mood and healthy food choices is a unique feature of the home and family environment, and this led me to further investigate the critical variable of family environment, namely, parenting practice.

Partly because I am a proud father of two lovely children, I am very interested in studying the impact of parent-children interaction on children’s food preferences. One of my recent survey studies finds that the parental use of highly rewarding food, such as candy and chocolate, meant to encourage children’s good

behavior, is actually associated with children’s increased preference for high sugar-fat diet. This effect is particularly strong for boys. Another study that investigated the impact of neighborhood food retailing environment, and “junk food” media exposure, on the nutritional profile of children’s diet, found a link between reward sensitivity and the vulnerability to obesity.

My childhood hobby of doodling had driven me to get into my early career in graphic design and eventually to the world of advertising and marketing. The love of “visual arts” is still motivating my research. Shaped by social-cultural background and personal experience, intuitive beliefs regarding colors tend to strongly influence consumers’ attitude, judgment, and preference for food products. One of my research projects reveals package colors can intuitively influence consumer’s perception and attitude toward food products, and the package color effect on taste and healthiness perception is particularly prominent for individuals who are highly sensitive to hedonic experiences.

Socio-technological innovations are rapidly transforming the agri-food industry with the potential to contribute to environmental sustainability, social equality, and healthy lifestyles. I believe a better understanding of

Featuring: Dr. Ji Lu

PROFILE ON BSS FACULTY/STAFF

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consumers’ acceptance of innovative product alternatives is one of the key research themes to foster such social and industrial change. Looking ahead, I would like to study consumers’ intuitive beliefs that influence the

acceptance of innovative healthy products, including functional food and wholesome food. I would also like to study consumers’ intuitive responses to social innovations, such as Corporate Social Responsibility

initiatives, and the ways in which consumer ethical activities impacts consumers’ nutrition sensitive behaviors.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles (Graduate students and Post Docs are underlined)

Currey, P. R; Somogyi, S.; Ariyawardana, A. (2015). Barriers to Market Orientation in Australian Vertically-Integrated Horticultural Enterprises, Acta Horticulturae, Vol 1103, 16. pp 109-114

Currey, P., Somogyi, S., Ariyawardana, A (2016). Why Organisations Struggle to Implement a Market Orientation: Insights into Beliefs of Top Management. Journal of Food Products Marketing, Vol 22, No 5, pp 1-12.

Dubé, L., Fatemi, H., Lu, J., & Hertzer, C. (2016). The Healthier the Tastier? USA–India Comparison Studies on Consumer Perception of a Nutritious Agricultural Product at Different Food Processing Levels. Frontiers in Public Health, 4. On-line: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2016.00006/full

Dukeshire, S., Nicks, E. (Forthcoming). Benchmarks and blinders: How Canadian Women Utilize the Nutrition Facts Table. Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research.

Dukeshire, S., MacPherson, M., Wang-Pruski, G., Veitch, S. (2016). Slicing, dicing, spicing, and pricing: Factors influencing purchase and consumption of fresh potatoes. Journal of Food Products Marketing, 22(2), 240-257.

Gilmour, D. T., MacDonald, N. J., Dukeshire, S., Whynot, B., Sanders, B., Thiel, J., Singh, S., Campbell, C., Bajzak, K., Flowerdew, G. (Forthcoming). Diagnosis of adverse events after hysterectomy with postoperative self-care web applications: A pilot study. Health Informatics Journal.

Hartt, C. & Peters, L. (2016). Failing at History. The Workplace Review, April Issue, 19 - 27.

Hartt, C. (2015). Change at the top of Air Canada: The Governing Liberal Party Perspective: An analysis of Non-Corporeal Actants. Journal of Business and Economics, 5(1): 134-147.

Hartt, C. (2015). Social Media, XL Foods and the Decision to Sell to JBS USA. Review of Contemporary Business Research, 3(3&4): 1-10.

Huang, L., & Lu, J. (2015). Eat with your eyes: package color influences the expectation of food taste and healthiness moderated by external eating. Marketing management journal, 25(September), pages 71-87.

BUSINESS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES: RESEARCH

External Funding

The Department wishes to congratulate the following for success in obtaining external research and other funding during the reporting period (i.e., from June 2015-July 2016). The information does not include internal funding obtained, although such funding amounts may be significant in some cases.

Dr. Greg Cameron: obtained $7,200 from Global Affairs Canada from its Emerging Leaders of the Americas Program (ELAP). This funding will support a PhD scholar from the University of Cienfuegos, Cuba for four months beginning October 2016, and builds on a recently-concluded LACREG grant. Greg and his research collaborator will investigate agricultural co-operatives and family farms in Nova Scotia and Cuba.

Dr. Simon Somogyi: obtained $41,000 from Genome Atlantic to analyze the market potential for an agri-food byproduct.

Dr. Simon Somogyi: obtained $144,000 for a two-year research project, funded by Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture/ Fisheries and Aquaculture. The study will analyze and develop shellfish value chains from Nova Scotia to China.

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Peer Reviewed Journal Articles (Graduate students and Post Docs are underlined) - Continued

Lim-Camacho, L., Ariyawardana, A., Lewis, G., Crimp, S., Somogyi, S., Ridoutt, B., Howden, S. (2016). Climate adaptation of food value chains: the implications of varying consumer acceptance. Regional Environmental Change, pp1-10.

Lu, J., Xiong, S., Arora, N., & Dubé, L. (2015). Using food as reinforcer to shape children's non-food behavior: The adverse nutritional effect doubly moderated by reward sensitivity and gender. Eating Behaviors, 19(December), page 94-97. (IF:1.680).

MacMichael, M., Beazley, K., Kevany, K., Looker, D., & Stiles, D. (2015). Motivations, Experiences, and Community Contributions of Young In-migrants in the Maitland Area, Nova Scotia. Journal of Rural & Community Development, 10(4), 36-53.

Stiles, D. (2016) (Book Review). A Great Rural Sisterhood: Madge Robertson Watt & the ACWW. By Linda M. Ambrose. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. In: Agricultural History 90.2 (Spring):281-82.

Vainik, U., Dubé, L., Lu, J., & Fellows, L. K. (2015). Personality and situation predictors of consistent eating patterns. PloS one, 10(12), e0144134. (IF: 3.234).

Zhang, W., Lu, J., Dubé, L. (2016). Convergence Innovation and China Innovation Driven Development, Management World, (Chinese peer-reviewed journal publication; (IF:4.013).

Book Chapters

Dukeshire, S., Mendoza, J., Masakure, O., Holmes, B., Rippey, J., Henson, S. (Forthcoming). Globavores, localfors, and locavores: How Canadians perceive local food. Food Markets: Consumer Perceptions, Government Regulations and Health Impacts. Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Kevany, K. & Lynch, D. (2016). Commentary – Urban agriculture and its role in transformational agriculture. In R.L. France (Ed.), Integrated Urban Agriculture: Precedents, Practices, Prospects. Oxfordshire, UK: Libri Publishing, 35-38.

Conference Presentations

Grant, K. & Hartt, C. (2016). MF Global: Making Sense of Collapse. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC). Edmonton, AB.

Hartt, C., Price, S. & Yue, A., (2015). Omamama as a symbol of ecofeminism in a holacracy, Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism (SCOS), Nottingham, U.K.

Hernandez, K. & Kevany, K. (2016). Food for Good: Igniting Health, Preventing Disease, and Increasing Food Literacy, Threshold Concepts, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May.

Kevany, K. (2016). Food Doing Good: Revitalize health and economy with food for good, Can. Rural Revitalization Foundation, University of Guelph, October.

Kevany, K., Wang, G., Baur, G. (2016). Food for Good: Food that Does Good. Canadian Association of Food Studies, University of Toronto, Scarborough, June.

Kevany, K. (2016). Creating Innovation and Well-being through Agriculture and Food, Dalhousie Conference on University Teaching and Learning, Halifax, Nova Scotia, April.

Kevany, K. (2015). Optimizing Well-being through Systems Reorientation to Sustainable Consumption, Cleaner Production & Conscious Consumption, Sitges, Spain, October.

Kevany, K. (2015). Ethical Leadership, Stowe, Vermont, Mind & Life Institute, August.

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Conference Presentations - Continued

Kevany, K. & MacMichael, M. (2015). Community Engagement in Community Revitalization, PEI, Rural Revitalization Foundation Conference, June.

Kevany, K. & Smyth, F. (2015). Engaging Student Active Learning with Engage Colchester-Truro, DAL, Annual Conference on Learning and Teaching, April.

Lake, K., & Kevany, K. (2016). Local Food at Farmer's Markets - Purchases Driven by Place Canadian Association of Geography Studies, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May.

Lu, J., Xiong, S., & Dubé, L (2016). Reward sensitivity predicts children’s selective exposure to unhealthy food advertisement and consequent diet quality. Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM): 2016 Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions, Washington DC USA, March 30-April 2.

Mederos, D. and Cameron, G. (2015). Understanding Rural & Social Transformation in Cuba’s Cienfuegos Province & Beyond: A Collaborative & Comparative Research Design on the Cuban Reform Process. International Conference on Higher Education, University of Cienfuegos, October.

Paquet, C., Lu, J., Labban, A., Ma, Y., De Montigny, L., Buckridge, D., Xiong, S., Arora, A., & Dubé, L., (2015). “Food Cue and Reward Sensitivity Moderate the Associations between Food Retail and Advertising Exposure and Food Consumption in 6-12 Y Children” the 143rd American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Exposition, Chicago USA, October 31 - November 4.

Price, S., Hartt, C. & Mills, A. (2016). Stories of early Labrador: Positioning non-corporeal actants as contributor to the persistence of the Them Days network. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC). Edmonton, AB.

Price, S., Hartt, C., & Yue, A. (2015). Indigenousness, Indigeneity and Indigenous Knowledge, Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism (SCOS), Nottingham, U.K.

Somogyi, S, Wang, O (2016). Chinese shellfish consumer preferences and the impacts on the Nova Scotian shellfish value chain: a conceptual model, International Food and Agribusiness Management Congress, Aarhus June 19- 23.

Yiridoe, E.K., and Wei, L. (2016). Determinants of Purchase Propensity of Eco-Labeled Household Electrical Appliances among Saskatchewan Organic Farmers. Selected paper presented at the 2016 Canadian Agricultural Economics Society Conference. June 22- 25. Victoria, BC, Canada.

Yiridoe, E.K., and. Wei, L. (2015). Factors influencing the Purchase Decisions of Eco-Labeled Household Electrical Appliances among Organic Farmers. Selected paper presented at 43nd Atlantic Canada Economics Association Conference. October 23-25. Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada.

Conference Proceedings

Hartt, C., Price, S. & Pohlkamp, G. (2015). Indigenous Peoples and Issues in Business Ethics Education: A Feminist Existential Review, Academy of Management (AoM), Vancouver, BC.

Hartt, C., Price, S. & Yue, A., (2015). We the Inuit, European Group on Organizational Studies, Athens, Greece.

Hartt, C., & Mills, A., G. (2015). The re-de-institutionalization of the New Deal: The case of Henry Wallace and the USDA, European Group on Organizational Studies.

Price, S., Hartt, C & Helms-Mills, J. (2016). Three Inuit and their stories on the seal hunt: Using the positioning diamond framework for discourse analysis. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC). Edmonton, AB.

Yue, A., Price, S. & Hartt, C., (2015). Sky woman in a postmasculine world, European Group on Organizational Studies, Athens, Greece.

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Presentations to Government & Industry

Somogyi, S (2016). Nova Scotia Wine & Grape Industry: Lessons "From Away", Grape Growers Association Nova Scotia Annual General Meeting, NSCC Kentville, March, Keynote Speaker.

Somogyi, S (2016). Direct to Consumers research: a tool for beverage businesses, "Liquid Courage" Beverage workshop, February, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS.

Somogyi, S (2015). Value Chain Analysis for the Horticulture Industry, Horticulture NS Power breakfast, February, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS.

Somogyi, S (2016). NS-China Value Chain Project: An overview: Minister of Fisheries Conference, Choc Lake Halifax, March.

Other Publications: Technical Reports

Cameron, G. and Connell, D. (2016). Agricultural Land Use Planning in Canada A Case Study of the Municipal County of Antigonish’ SSHRC Insight Grant. Available online at: http://blogs.unbc.ca/agplanning/reports-2/.

ICE CREAM SOCIAL AND SOCCER GAME ~

MARCO AND KATHLEEN ~ MARIE

LAW (HAPPY RETIREMENT MARIE!),

GREG AND SIMBA ~ 2016 DAL AC

CAMPUS AND ABROAD

Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France No sign of Frankenstein - or author Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (Shelley) - but Montenvers and the 'Mer de Glace' (glacier) figure heavily in the story! Humanities professor begins her Frankenstein Foray...reconnaissance for a potential future literary and historical research project, as well as a potential new humanities course....& on the 200th anniversary of Shelley's beginning her now classic novel.~ Deborah Stiles

DAL AC Langille Athletic Centre

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Undergraduate Students Attend CPMA Trade Show and Career Pathways Program. In late April 2016, Dr. Somogyi led a Department and Agriculture Campus team to the annual Canadian Produce Marketing Association Trade Show and Career Pathways program, in Calgary, Alberta. The students were represented by IFB students Emilie Labossiere, Titus Schier, and Laura Quinn, along with fourth-year Agricultural Economics student, Ji Cao. The Careers Pathways program involves numerous professional development activities such as workshops and networking opportunities and each student is assigned an industry mentor to guide them through the process. The group also went on two association-sponsored tours related to produce supply chains.

Experience from Iceland Internship is Priceless. In April 2016, Emma Eisses returned from her seven-month internship in Iceland. The internship is funded by Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and for this year, Dalhousie University Faculty of Agriculture and IFB student, Emma Eisses, was the beneficiary of the program, with Dr. Simon Somogyi as an intern supervisor. The internship opportunity allowed Emma to work with exporters and importers in Iceland and Nova Scotia in developing products for various markets. Emma is building on the Iceland internship experience with a current work placement in various communities in South America.

Master of Agriculture Graduate Student Winner in National Competition: David Thibodeau, 2015 MSc. (Agr.) graduate, won the 2016 Canadian Agricultural Economics Society Masters’ Thesis Award. David’s masters’ thesis was entitled “Two Essays on the Estimation of

Agricultural Trade Flows: Model Selection and Endogeneity of Trade Agreements”. The thesis was supervised by Dr. Stephen Clark.

IFB UPDATE

Scotland!

From Iceland to Scotland: International Food Business Class on the Move. Thirty-eight first year International Food Business (IFB) students from Europe and Canada will be traveling to Scotland (Sept. 11-18) as part of the IFB program requirements. The first IFB class of this “dual degree” and dual university program travelled to Iceland in 2009. The change in venue (from Iceland) for this important annual study trip is partly due to cost considerations and partly due to weather complications, as this year’s trip will occur during the third week of September.

Students will tour agrifood businesses such as Grahams Family Dairy, and Albert Bartlett Potatoes in the southern part of Scotland, as well as JM Whiteford and Sons (a livestock and grain crop farming estate), and Glenmorangie Distillery in the Scottish Highlands. The first full day will be spent in the classroom, hosted by the Scottish Rural College (formerly Scottish Agricultural College). Throughout the week, students will work on a project comparing the milk and milk product value chains of

Canada and The Netherlands, with those in the United Kingdom.

BSc (Agr) Agribusiness Student Winner of Dr. Gerry Friar’s Award: Andrew Wajda’s fourth year project won the 2016 Dr. Gerry Friar’s Award. The award is Faculty of Agriculture competition involving the best projects reports nominated by all Departments in the faculty for each academic major. The fourth year project, entitled “From Murderer to Victim: Shifts in Canadian Newspaper Framing of Sharks”, applied qualitative research methods to investigate this topical issue. Andrew’s project was supervised by Dr. Steven Dukeshire.

BSS STUDENTS: ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACH

COMMUNITY DAY 2016 – JOY GALLOWAY-JONES AND OW WANG

MAKING BUTTONS FOR PARTICIPANTS.

IFB SCOTLAND TRIP ~ JOY GALLOWAY-JONES

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Living Earth Council (LEC) is a Truro-based grassroots, advocacy organization that is also a catalyst for sustainable change, encouraging action at the local level for a vibrant, sustainable future. The mandate of LEC fits well with Dr. Kathleen Kevany’s volunteerism and personal lifestyle. Kathleen has served for several years with the Living Earth Council (LEC) in Truro, which allows her to engage the local community and to educate the community members about how we affect the environment and how the environment affects us. In this Anthropocene Age where humans contribute to climate change at a faster rate than natural bio-self-remediating systems can

mitigate, public education about the causes of climate change and individual actions to mitigate a warming planet are important. This year Kathleen began a term as Chair of the LEC. The local organization also has Dal-AC representatives from the MacRae Library (represented by Jolene Reid), the Seed Bank, and an expert in Horticultural Studies (Dr. Lord Abbey), along with Kendra Mellish who has a wide range of interests and perspectives from International House. LEC hosts several events each year to raise awareness about options for heating, transportation, eating, and enjoying life.

Electoral reform in Canada is a topical issue in Canadian politics, and invariably raises questions among the public.

In response, organizations such as Fair Vote Canada design and provide fora to debate and discuss the issue, while also providing an opportunity for public education. Political Science professor, Greg Cameron and leadership expert, Dr. Kathleen Kevany, were panelists on two Spring

2016 forays to provide insights on pertinent issues and possibilities for a different electoral system in Canada. This event must be seen in the broader context of the All-Party Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reform set up by the House of Commons, tasked with proposing a new electoral system in time for the 2019 federal election.

The deliberations took place in Tatamagouche in March 6, and in Mahone Bay in April of 2016. Dr. Cameron discussed possible electoral scenarios in a "post-first-past-the-post system”, while Dr. Kevany’s talk was about the possibilities for deeper citizen engagement by opening up of the current ‘first-past-the-post’ system. Both events were sponsored and organized by the Council of Canadians.

Dr. Kevany is New Chair of Living Earth Council

COMMUNITY AND INDUSTRY OUTREACH

PRIDE PARADE 2016 DEBORAH STILES AND

KATHLEEN KEVANY MAKING HISTORY AND PARTICIPATING IN THE FIRST EVER PRIDE PARADE

IN TRURO.

Drs. Cameron and Kevany as Panelists on Electoral Reform

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Adventures from the Faculty and Staff

Co-Editors This Issue: Gregory Cameron and Heather Brown

Something Fishy is Going on Here! But Where is ‘Here’?

Cox Renovations – Summer 2016 Dr. Grant’s office features the extensive renovations at the Cox Institute department offices during the summer of 2016.