Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario becomes OLIP’s lead sponsor

Ontario Brokers Association Announces Lead Sponsorship of Provincial Legislature Internship Programme Toronto, Ontario, March 2nd, 2010. Today, The Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario (IBAO) announced their lead sponsorship of the Ontario Legislature Internship Programme (OLIP) administered by the Canadian Political Science Association at Queen’s Park. IBAO first became a sponsor of the programme in 1996. [...]

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2009-10 Fall Placements

October – February Placement Maegan Baird B.A. Political Science, McMaster University M.A. Political Science: International Relations and Public Policy, McMaster University Jean Marc Lalonde (LIB) Leslie de Meulles B.H. Humanities, Carleton University M.A. Political Science, McGill University Joyce Savoline (PC) Paul Di Ianni B.A. History and Political Science, McMaster University M.A. Political Science, McMaster University [...]

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Introducing the 2009-10 Interns

Maegan Baird is a fluently bilingual French Canadian hailing from Welland, Ontario. Since the age  of twelve, Maegan can remember being extremely interested in both law and politics, which led her to pursue a BA (Hon.) in political science at McMaster University. During those years she volunteered with various organizations including an after school tutoring [...]

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Oakville Day

Last Monday, I had the privilege of organising “Oakville Day” for the OLIP interns. It was a chance for us to visit a town, and some key players within it, that many Ontarians have heard of though I suspect its public perception is somewhat skewed. As we learned very quickly the community is not homogeneous. [...]

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The Legislature Rises for the Summer, and London on the Horizon!

This week marks the final week of the Legislature’s spring session and in turn it has made us all realize that our internship is nearing the end. With just more than two weeks left, everyone is busy finishing up their various tasks, writing final reports for our OLIP committees, and completing the final edits on [...]

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CPSA Papers

From our first days as interns, they loomed over us. We were advised to start work on them early. We read books and articles for them, conducted interviews, took notes, made charts and exchanged ideas. Finally, this week, we arrived in Ottawa, each armed with meticulous knowledge of our subject matters and ready to present [...]

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OLIP Does Ottawa!!

The interns left Toronto on Sunday for our long-anticipated Ottawa trip. We arrived in the early evening and with some “excitement” caused in the girls’ room due to the unexpected and unwelcome presence of insects and their subsequent re-assignment to another room, as well as phone calls past midnight asking for car-keys, everyone managed to get [...]

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A Much Deserved Long Weekend

Dr. Jacek doesn’t lie when he says interns are on a full treadmill sprint by the end of the internship. Coming off the busiest week of the internship, I can’t help but feel bittersweet–bitter that the programme is almost over and very sweet that my paper is done, the reception was a big hit, and [...]

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Thoughts on the Economy

Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter once coined the concept of ‘creative destruction’ to describe moments of radical transition within Western economies, when intensifying technological developments outpaced, and therefore rendered obsolete, previous modes of economic organization. Accused by some for focusing too heavily on the role of innovation in taking stock of historical change, Schumpeter has been [...]

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The Balancing Act

While our intern year is rapidly approaching its end, I think I can speak for all of us when I say that things are certainly not “winding down” in any way, shape or form.  In fact, as I quickly near the end of this wondrous ten-month experience as an intern, the list of responsibilities and [...]

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