Allow me to introduce you to one of the most competent associations in our province. The Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario (IBAO) is a voluntary membership organization serving the interests of more than 12,000 independent insurance brokers across the Province of Ontario. IBAO represents members’ interests to government ministries and regulatory bodies, as well as [...]
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Diego’s Mini Placement at the Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario (IBAO).
Posted in 2011-12 Interns, Diego Ortiz, orientation, Placements, Sponsors on October 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Diego on his Mini Placement with Sponsor IBAO
Posted in 2011-12 Interns, Diego Ortiz, orientation, Placements on October 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it goes without saying that this is not your regular OLIP year…it’s election year. This means from September 7th to October 6th there are technically no MPPs at Queen’s Park, as former MPPs become candidates (if they are seeking re-election). Considering this election has been heavily contested –to say the least– there is a [...]
Meeting Sponsor GlaxoSmithKline
Posted in 2011-12 Interns, Diego Ortiz, Meetings, orientation, Sponsors on September 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As our orientation days go by, it is getting more and more difficult to keep track of all the many interesting people we’ve met. A colleague of mine even had to create a spreadsheet to log all of the contact info we’ve gathered from meeting with political officials, bureaucrats, and high profile leaders of various [...]
Meeting Tonia Grannum, Clerk of Committees
Posted in 2011-12 Interns, Diego Ortiz, Meetings, orientation on September 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On our second week, we had the pleasure of meeting Tonia Grannum, a very energetic and knowledgeable Clerk of Committees at the Legislature who has a great history with the programme as an OLIP coordinator. Tonia shared a great deal of Committees’ insights that will not be revealed in this blog (you’ll have to apply [...]
Meeting the Environmental Commissioner
Posted in 2011-12 Interns, Diego Ortiz, Meetings, orientation on September 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On the fifth day of our orientation, we were welcomed into the office of Gord Miller, the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario. This was our first meeting with a Parliamentary Officer and it really opened my eyes to the Legislature’s ‘checks and balances’ system carried out by independent Commissioners. Mr. Miller elaborated on the non-partisan nature [...]
Diego’s First Week
Posted in 2011-12 Interns, Diego Ortiz on September 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The first week of my OLIP experience felt like one of the longest of my life, but for all the right reasons. Though the work week itself was only three days in length, my efforts to get to the first day of the internship had begun many days before. I had just moved in to [...]
Introducing the 2011-2012 Interns
Posted in 2011-12 Interns, Belinda Ellsworth, Craig Ruttan, Diego Ortiz, Evan Akriotis, Humera Jabir, Lauren Hanna, Monika Wyrzykowska, Patrick DeRochie, Sylvia Kim, Sylvia Peña on September 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Evan Akriotis is originally from Toronto, but has spent the last four years in Montreal, completing a Joint Honours degree in Political Science and Canadian Studies. His research interests include the nature of representation, the interaction between media (particularly entertainment media) and politics, and the politics of the north. In 2010, Evan explored his latter [...]
