My placements in Government and Opposition have been very different in a wide variety of different ways, but if I had to point to the one major difference that struck me from the very first day of my new placement it would have to be the difference in pace. Things move quickly in an opposition office. This should not be surprising in and [...]
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Picking Up the Pace
Posted in Charles Thompson, Placements on March 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Culture Shock: The Landscape of Aboriginal Self-Government
Posted in Charles Thompson, Travel on March 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Our time in Yellowknife was packed with all kinds of learning opportunities – and I can definitely say that in that week I learned so much that I’m still wrapping my head around it – but my only genuine culture shock reverberated around this one earthquake of a fact: people there take aboriginal issues seriously. [...]
Political Life
Posted in Charles Thompson, Placements on February 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When we are in meetings with politicians one question we are frequently asked is this: does having been involved at Queen’s Park turn you on or off of political life. It’s always phrased something like that and in some ways it’s a difficult question to answer because the term ‘political life’ is so broad. Among [...]
Advocacy
Posted in Charles Thompson, Placements on November 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As part of my dutues in Dr. Jaczek’s office I am given the chance to sit in on advocacy meetings with stakeholders of various backgrounds. It really hasn’t been what I expected. I’ll admit that I had a bit of acyunical point of view of what went on in these meetings before I had the [...]
Communications
Posted in Charles Thompson, Placements on November 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My work in the office is getting more and more in communications, which is to say revising press releases, drafting statements for publication, and speech writing. I’ve always thought that this kind of thing would be one of my strong points. As it turns out, that may have been a bit of hubris on my [...]
Charlie’s Update
Posted in Charles Thompson, Placements on October 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve only been in the placement for two weeks as of yet, but I can already tell that it’s certainly different from anyplace I’ve worked in the past. For starters, because I work in a Ministry I don’t only work with the member, her executive assistant and her legislative assistant but also with the liberal [...]
Charlie on joining Dr. Jaczek’s office
Posted in Charles Thompson, Placements on October 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
So at last, after over a month of waiting it’s time to get into placements and I for one am getting really excited. Now don’t get me wrong, the orientation and interview period has been more than fun (and certainly educational), but I think there’s a mood running through the group that it’s about time [...]
2010-11 Placements
Posted in Bryan Bossin, Charles Thompson, Erica Rayment, Katherine Preiss, Lisa Marie Williams, Melissa Cernigoy, Michael Smith, Natalie Desimini, Placements, Sasha Tregebov, Thomas Maidwell, z-2010-11 Interns on October 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The interns will begin their placements on Tuesday 12th October. Bryan Bossin – Ernie Hardeman (PC) Melissa Cernigoy – Gilles Bisson (NDP) Natalie Desimini – Jean-Marc Lalonde (LIB) Thomas Maidwell – Steve Clark (PC) Katherine Preiss – Donna Cansfield (LIB) Erica Rayment – Elizabeth Witmer (PC) Michael Smith – Dave Levac (LIB) Charles Thompson – [...]
Remembering Angela Longo
Posted in Charles Thompson on October 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On Wednesday we attended the memorial service of former intern and longtime public servant Angela Longo. At first I felt a little uncomfortable being there; after all, I had never known this woman but found myself in attendance among her closest friends, family and colleagues. But as the memorial proceeded, I began to feel less [...]
Tuesday, September 21st 2010
Posted in Charles Thompson, orientation on September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today we got to meet a couple of very interesting men: business executive Lynton “Red” Wilson and Jim McCarter, the Auditor General of Ontario. Mr. Wilson has been in just about every organization and held just about every position this side of Tuesday making him a force to be reckoned with. Apparently he began his [...]
