Media Engagement

CCTV English | Sep 23, 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Paul Evans

The Diplomat | Sep 23, 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Tim Cheek

Scientific American | Sep 18, 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Mark Turin

With Business in Vancouver on Roundhouse Radio | Sep 6, 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Yves Tiberghien starting at 14:25

The Diplomat | Sep 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Julian Dierkes

Research by Rashid Sumaila, MPPGA Professor and Director of OceanCanada with UBC’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, explores how the high seas can help us mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems if they are closed to fishing.

The Globe and Mail | Aug 29, 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Timothy Cheek

Le Devoir | Aug 16, 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Yves Tiberghien

According to Professor George Hoberg, a meaningful climate plan needs to have, at minimum, a measurable target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions over a specified time period. Hoberg further argues that there is a need for enforceable policies that can reasonably be expected to achieve that climate target.

MPPGA Co-Director Yves Tiberghien was quoted in the Chinese Radio International article discussing a suggested line of communication between China and the US that is connected to the deployment of THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea. Tiberghien suggests that this can be done on a non-political level.

Professor Paul Evans was quoted in this Globe and Mail article discussing BC’s new foreign-buyer tax and its effect on relations between Canada and China. Professor Evans believes the new levy will have no impact on relations between Ottawa and Beijing since it is structured in a way that does not single out Chinese nationals.

MPPGA Professor Rashid Sumaila, Director of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit at UBC Fisheries Centre, argues that reducing poachers’ access to insurance might be one way to combat illegal fishing. Furthermore, he estimates that losing their insurance would cause perhaps 40 percent of the ships that regularly fish illegally to stop doing so.

Vancouver Sun | Jul 15, 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Yves Tiberghien

Huffington Post Canada | Jul 13, 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Julian Dierkes

The Globe and Mail | Jul 10, 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Timothy Brook

MPPGA Co-Director Yves Tiberghien was featured on the CBC Early Edition at the 2:09:31 mark about the UK’s EU referendum. Professor Tiberghien discussed the referendum results that led to the UK leaving the EU. He also talks about the legal, political, and even environmental changes that will possibly take place in the following years.

NEWS 1130 | Jun 24, 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Yves Tiberghien

MPPGA Professor Julian Dierkes discusses Mongolia’s upcoming parliamentary elections and the possible staggering defeat for the ruling Democratic Party, which had led successive governments over the past four years. Rather than offering a compelling vision for Mongolia’s future, the DP’s strategy, as argued by Dierkes, has focused on reconfiguring the entire election system, creating more problems.

In this Globe and Mail piece, MPPGA Co-Director Yves Tiberghien discusses the Canadian debate on China that has been focused on the battle between necessary trade and fundamental human and environmental rights. Tiberghien argues that Canada cannot only talk to like-minded advanced democracies, but also has to actively engage with other key global players, such as China.

Global Creativity Magazine | Jun 10, 2016 | Featuring: MAAPPS student Bérangère M. N. Parizeau

MPPGA Professor Rashid Sumaila, Director of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit at UBC Fisheries Centre, discusses illegal fishing as a major problem that siphons an estimated $10 to 20 billion annually from the global economy, and causes millions of tonnes of fish to disappear from the oceans.

According to Professor George Hoberg, PM Justin Trudeau has put himself in a position where he can’t avoid a “massive” setback to his political standing in one of three provinces: B.C., Alberta and Quebec. “He’s boxed himself in politically and now he can’t avoid expending massive political capital by offending…important political allies,” Hoberg said in an interview.

MPPGA Co-Director, Professor Yves Tiberghien was interviewed by the Center for Strategic & International Studies on China’s 13th Five-Year Plan. Despite the explosive growth of the private sector in China’s economy over the last several decades, China’s five-year plans remain the most authoritative strategic vision on the direction of the country’s economic and social policies.  

The Vancouver Sun | May 27 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Julian Dierkes

The New York Times | May 26 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Christopher Rea

Center for Strategic & International Studies | May 23 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Yves Tiberghien

MPPGA Professor Rashid Sumaila discusses fishing, its worldwide importance as a critical source of food and jobs, and how fish stocks are currently collapsing. Sumaila attempts to answer the question of whether it is still wise to use taxpayer money to fund fisheries subsidies or not, given that many governments support their local industries with subsidies.

MPPGA Professor Milind Kandlikar, UBC Professor Simon Donner, and graduate student Sophie Webber discuss climate change adaptation and the problems associated with its financing. By arguing that there is no clear definition of what separates adaptation aid from standard development aid, the authors use a historical database of overseas development projects to test the effect of different accounting assumptions.

Liu Professor Milind Kandlikar, and co-authors Simon Harding and Sumeet Gulati, provide a starting point for discussion on how smartphone-based taxi apps have changed the market for taxi journeys and the resulting implications for taxi market regulation. Their research extends our understanding of taxi markets and the issues associated with the popularity of newly released apps, such as Uber.

Asahi Shimbun | May 4 2016 | Featuring: From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Poetry of Nuclear Survival (CJR Event)

Today is Earth Day and MPPGA’s Jiaying Zhao, assistant professor at UBC’s Institute of Resources, Environment and Sustainability and the Department of Psychology, explains how behaviour change requires more than just education; many simple factors (such as convenience) can be the key to helping us become more environmentally friendly.

CBC News | April 14 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Yves Tiberghien

University of Alberta Political Science Blog | April 13 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Yves Tiberghien and MAAPPS Alumni Pascale Massot

CBC News | Apr 14 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Christopher Rea

UBC MPPGA Co-Director Yves Tiberghien organized the recent summit, Vision 20: International Summit on Global Governance’s New Frontiers, in Hangzhou, China. MPPGA student Chad Rickaby and other graduate students, faculty and a global coalition of policy schools and think tanks participated in the summit that focused on the question of improving global governance and addressing systemic risk.

The MPPGA program recently launched PolicyStudio@UBC at the Central Innovation Hub in Ottawa. MPPGA students gathered with faculty, federal government leaders and public servants to design and test solutions in an interdisciplinary setting over the course of several days. Learn more…

The Vancouver Sun | Mar 20 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Wang Yong

CBC French Radio | Mar 14 2016 | Featuring Dr. Yves Tiberghien 1:40:20 Onward

Dominic Ongwen was a brigade commander in the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) but he was also one of its earliest victims, spending nearly three decades surviving the violence and tumult of war. This article features research conducted by MPPGA and Liu Institute Professor Erin Baines and partners in Uganda, the Justice and Reconciliation Project.

The Globe and Mail | Mar 1 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Yves Tiberghien

MPPGA Faculty Amartya Lahiri and his fellow Vancouver School of Economics professor Paul Beaudry argue that the Bank of Canada should re-evaluate its current inflation-targeting framework. They point out that the Bank of Canada’s hands-off approach to exchange rate movements has produced an unintended consequence by making the Canadian dollar a commodity currency.

UBC News | Feb 10 2016 | Dr. Julian Dierkes

Global News | Feb 4 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Yves Tiberghien

The Vancouver Sun | Jan 29 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Yuen Pau Woo

Toronto Star | Jan 28 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Yves Tiberghien

CBC Radio | Jan 25 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Yves Tiberghien 00:42 Onward

CBC Radio | Jan 25 2015 | Featuring: Dr. Yves Tiberghien CBC On the Coast Ici Radio Canada (CBC French)

MPPGA Faculty Dr. Timothy Cheek discusses the transformation of China since the Cultural Revolution. Now that China has cemented its position as a global player, a new aristocracy in the country has surfaced. Moreover, because of its rising self-confidence, the country simply does not need the world as much as it used to.

Storm Magazine | Dec 2015 – Jan 2016 | Featuring: Dr. Timothy Cheek

The Chinese stock market meltdown this week and the wild fluctuation of the Shanghai Composite Index have caused a lot of worry among investors. MPPGA Co-Director Yves Tiberghien argues that there is no reason to panic since China has the “resiliency, resources, and stability” to continuously grow and survive this stock-market storm.