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14th Annual Donner Prize: Beach-Green-Worswick Book Runner Up

Press Announcement of Winner Last Evening:  http://www.donnerbookprize.com/s/press/index.html

 "Democratizing the Constitution: Reforming Responsible Government" by Peter Aucoin, Mark D. Jarvis and Lori Turnbull, published by Emond Montgomery Publications, was awarded the $50,000 Donner Prize.

The other nominated titles, each of which received $7,500, were: 

◦"Toward Improving Canada’s Skilled Immigration Policy: An Evaluation Approach" by Charles M. Beach, Alan G. Green and Christopher Worswick (C.D. Howe Institute)

◦"Museum Pieces: Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums" by Ruth B. Phillips (McGill-Queen’s University Press)

◦"XXL: Obesity and the Limits of Shame" by Neil Seeman and Patrick Luciani (University of Toronto Centre for Public Management)

Congratulations to All

Robin Boadway (Economics) Push to tax income of the top one percent is stronger than ever, in the National Post [news.nationalpost.com].

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/14/push-to-tax-income-of-the-top-1-is-stronger-than-ever-and-no-less-risky/

The committee of Morten Nielsen and Susumu Imai has selected Robin Boadway as the winner of the 2012 QED Research Prize.  He is the eleventh recipient of this award (as well as being a two-time winner), following in the illustrious footsteps of Susumu Imai, Morten Nielsen, Jan Zabojnik, Shouyong Shi, Ruqu Wang, Huw Lloyd-Ellis, Robin Boadway, Allen Head, Ian Keay, and Katsumi Shimotsu.

The QED Research Prize was established by an anonymous donor to reward and recognize the research achievements of a faculty member in the Department of Economics.

Charles Beach (Economics) and Michael Abbott (Economics) – Op-ed on the importance for Canada to attract skilled immigrants, in the Saskatoon StarPhoenix. "Vital to attract skilled immigrants"

http://www.thestarphoenix.com/opinion/Vital+attract+skilled+immigrants/6166813/story.html

James MacKinnon comments in article by Derek Abma's "Messing with public pensions is a minefield one would think most prime ministers would avoid if possible"..

(Government considers raising old age pension from 65 to 67)...

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/27/messing-with-public-pensions-could-be-minefield-for-harper/

Other newspapers...Calgary Herald, Ottawa Citizen and Montreal Gazette.

Roger Ware (Economics) – Canadian communications firms agree to buy Maple Leafs and Raptors, in the New York Times; competition bureau to investigate sale, in the Toronto Star and Hamilton Spectator.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/sports/ownership-of-maple-leafs-and-raptors-may-change-hands.html

http://www.thestar.com/sports/leafs/article/1099959--competition-bureau-will-investigate-bell-rogers-takeover-of-mlse

The Department is extremely pleased to inform you that effective December 1, 2011, Rachel became a continuing full-time staff member as the Graduate Studies Assistant in the Department of Economics at Queen's University! Please join us in welcoming Rachel as a member of the QED Family!