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Jeffrey Simpson

National Affairs Columnist for The Globe and Mail

Politics, Power & Personalities: Who Really Calls The Shots In Canada

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Jeffrey Simpson has been the The Globe and Mail's National Affairs columnist -- and one of Canada's foremost political commentators -- for over two decades. In that time, he has become a trusted voice on domestic and international issues for millions of Canadians and has won this country's highest honours for journalism, including the Governor General's Award. Simpson has also lectured at Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, and dozens of universities across Canada. As a bilingual speaker, he regularly appears on television and radio in both official languages.

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Chronic Condition: Why Canada's Health Care System Needs to Be Dragged Into the 21st Century

Not many people these days are talking sense about health care. Canadians are in love with Medicare, but they don’t realize that we spend in the top rank for health care among industrial countries – only to get middling results. While this gap widens between spending and performance, we shovel so much extra money into health care that everything else suffers: education, social services, transport, environment. In this insightful talk, Jefferey Simpson taps into new research to explain the history of Medicare, indicate how it compares internationally, illustrate what it’s doing to public finances, and debunk some half-baked ideas for reforming it. Simpson also suggests some big, but doable changes that might achieve our two most important objectives: improve quality and reduce the increase in health care expenses.

Politics, Power & Personalities: Who Really Calls The Shots In Canada

In his talks, Simpson gives you an insider's look at politics and the people who wield the real power in Canada. He goes beyond the political to look at business leaders and others whose actions influence policy and legislation across the country -- whose actions, by extension, impact your life, your business and your strategy. Giving you valuable insight into the power brokers, Simpson helps you focus in on the key players and events that will created the context for the future of your industry -- and shows you how to react accordingly. It's a glimpse into an important world you may have known existed, but which you never fully understood. Until now.

Hot Air: Meeting Canada's Climate Challenge

While many keynotes on climate change are either terrifying, academic, or advocate only a single solution, Jeffrey Simpson's is different. Outlining, first, how we have been betrayed by our politicians, corporations, even environmentalists, he lays out, in convincing and accessible terms, the few simple policies that Canada must adopt right now. Backed with examples from countries successfully addressing the issue, he shows how these policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions can be designed to have minimal negative effects, and why these are the only policies that will work.

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SUSAN CAIN at TED 2012

"When it comes to creativity and to leadership," Susan Cain said at TED 2012, "we need introverts doing what they do best." Her talk received a standing ovation. Cain's instant bestseller, Quiet, is a manifesto for the one-third to one-half of the population who are introverts—and who have been told, all their life, that their natural personality is flawed, that behaving like an extrovert is the only path to success. Most of our institutions, from schools to workplaces, are heavily biased toward extroverts. A self-identified introvert, Cain is working to change this and to radically transform the way we develop leaders, manage teams, make smart hires, and stimulate innovation.