The Mowat Centre

07/03/2019

After ten years of impacting Ontario’s and Canada’s public policy landscape, the Mowat Centre is ceasing operations today.

We are proud of the contributions we have made and thank all the leaders, researchers and staff who were part of it. We wish them all success as they continue to make important contributions to Ontario and Canada.

We also thank our partners and supporters who helped make our work happen. We especially thank the University of Toronto, first through the School of Public Policy and Governance and then through the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, for providing our home and support over the years.

But most of all, we thank you, our thousands of subscribers and readers for your continued support and interest in our work.

While Mowat is closing its doors today, our work will continue to be publicly available, and our research hubs, Mowat NFP and the Research Initiative on Education and Skills (RIES), will continue to operate. Here are the details:

ACCESSING MOWAT'S PAST WORK

The Munk School will continue to host our website and all the research content therein. https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/mowatcentre/

Our reports will soon be available through the University of Toronto’s TSpace repository as well.

MOWAT NFP

Mowat NFP continues to conduct research on the social sector. A new website has been launched, and work on moving to a new permanent operational home is ongoing.

Follow Mowat NFP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mowatnfppage/

RIES

RIES’ work will continue as part of the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO). If you are interested in the upcoming reports, make sure to sign up for the HEQCO mailing list by visiting the HEQCO website and scrolling to the bottom of the page to enter your information: http://www.heqco.ca

05/23/2019

May 22, 2019

05/21/2019

Tomorrow night! Mowat Centre's last Policy in a Pub, celebrating the contributions of the Mowat Centre and its staff to public policy in Ontario in its ten years. We hope to see you there. https://mowatcentre.ca/policy-in-a-pub-the-last-call/

04/30/2019

What does the advent of distributed energy resources mean for electricity systems in Ontario and beyond? What opportunities and challenges do they present, and how should utilities and regulators respond? Our latest report offers a comprehensive analysis: https://mowatcentre.ca/distributed-energy-resources/

04/15/2019

How do Ontarians view the Canadian federation, and how do Canadians in other provinces see Ontario? For attempts to make Canada's fiscal transfers fairer, our new analysis of findings from the Confederation of Tomorrow survey is quite sobering: https://mowatcentre.ca/how-ontario-sees-the-federation-and-how-the-federation-sees-ontario/

04/02/2019

How will the digital economy affect municipal revenue in Canada, and what can be done in response? Our new report, commissioned by the region of peel, analyzes the challenges and offers a range of strategic and tactical responses. https://mowatcentre.ca/rethinking-municipal-finance-for-the-new-economy/

03/29/2019

In the UK and US, evidence institutions already have a proven track record of strengthening evidence-informed policymaking & service delivery. MowatNFP draws the lessons Canada can learn from this, and spotlights promising initiatives in Canada: https://mowatcentre.ca/committing-to-action/ …

03/28/2019

03/19/2019

PSE students have been increasingly combining education and employment to enhance skills (and not just to manage costs). We summarize what descriptive statistics from 's latest LISA data tell us about students’ work experiences while in PSE: https://mowatcentre.ca/combining-school-and-work/

03/12/2019

Encouraging Canadian students to study abroad and international students to study in Canada are laudable goals, but the levers to lead them are with Provincial/Territorial governments and educational institutions. The federal government should instead use international education strategically to advance more properly federal goals: https://mowatcentre.ca/when-is-a-strategy-not-strategic/ …

In November 2018, the federal government announced its intention to unilaterally develop a new international education strategy. This report argues that it would be more effective for the federal government to eschew grand strategies and instead use international education strategically in advancing...

03/04/2019

As Canada's cities respond to global sharing economy platforms, here are two useful guides: Amsterdam found ways to use these platforms to advance its social goals and priorities; Seoul created its own context-sensitive ones. https://mowatcentre.ca/creating-a-positive-sharing-economy-lessons-from-amsterdam-and-seoul/