I’m continuing to find Mr. Yakabuski’s office to be very challenging and fulfilling. It is a fast-paced office with lots of responsibilities, but it is exactly what I wanted to get out of the programme. Particularly, I have been given a lot of rope to investigate energy policy issues that I find interesting and report [...]
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Taking the Lead
Posted in Michael Smith, Placements on March 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last Week in the Office – Mike
Posted in Michael Smith, Placements on February 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This was my last week with MPP Levac, as our 1st placements were wrapping up. Unfortunately for me (but not for him!), he was on vacation and so I didn’t get a chance to see him. The week was filled with wrapping up loose ends, and making sure that the rest of the staff were [...]
Organizing a Knighthood
Posted in Michael Smith, Placements on January 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The highlight of my past week was actually last weekend, when I traveled to MPP Levac’s constituency of Brant. I was in the City of Brantford for the culmination of a project I had been planning for weeks: MPP Levac being honoured by the Government of Ukraine for his work on raising awareness of Holodmor, [...]
Right Back At It
Posted in Michael Smith, Placements on January 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
With the Legislative Assembly out of session, I was expecting January to be fairly slow. And while perhaps the urgency of the job has decreased, there has been no shortage of interesting assignments to do since we returned from the holidays. The number one thing on my plate has been organizing MPP Levac’s award ceremony. [...]
Visiting the Senate of Canada
Posted in Michael Smith, Travel on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As you know, this past week the interns traveled to Quebec City and Ottawa for their first educational trip. I thought I would take this time to share an interesting meeting we had in Ottawa. The last meeting the interns had was with Charles Robert, the principal clerk of the Senate of Canada. Mr. Robert [...]
Organizing a Lobby Day
Posted in Michael Smith, Placements on November 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
On Monday the 15th, I helped arrange for a group of parents of children with diabetes to come in to Queen’s Park. They came to speak to MPPs about the difficulties their children face while trying to manage their disease while in school. These include the physical problems, like figuring out when to check blood [...]
Things are really starting to pick up in Dave Levac’s office
Posted in Michael Smith, Placements on November 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Things are really starting to pick up in Dave Levac’s office. We introduced a new private members bill, which has stirred quite a bit of debate in the public and has required a lot of interaction with stakeholders. I was also able to sit in on quite a number of meetings, including having breakfast with [...]
No “getting my feet wet” period
Posted in Michael Smith, Placements on October 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There has been no “getting my feet wet” period in Dave Levac’s office. He has thrown me right into the mix of a number of different areas, and I couldn’t be more pleased. I have already been given a great amount of responsibility, including handling constituent issues, drafting media releases, and working out language with [...]
Mike on joining Dave Levac’s office
Posted in Michael Smith, Placements on October 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This week I begin my placement in the office of Dave Levac, the Liberal MPP for Brant. I could not be more excited about the opportunity. Mr. Levac (or Dave, as he’s already told me to call him) has had interns in the past and all have given him great reviews. Dave is one of the [...]
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 – [...]
