The OLIP interns were delighted to meet with our partner, the Council of Ontario Universities (COU), and speak with Krista Orendorff, Vice-President, Public Affairs; Dominika Flood, Chief of Staff and Strategic Advisor; and Yvonne Robertson. Founded in 1962, COU is a non-partisan organization that strives to collaborate with its members to find consensus on a broad breadth of university-related issues and advance them through government and community stakeholders. The organi

The OLIP interns greatly enjoyed the opportunity to meet with our esteemed programme partner, Bombardier, and experience a site tour of the Aircraft Assembly Centre with our hosts: Sandra Buckler, Senior Director, External Affairs and Public Relations; Michael Murphy, Director of Methods, New Product Development; as well as Government Affairs interns, Nolan Pittman and Ela Ince. Though founded in 1942, Bombardier’s story started in 1907, with Joseph-Armand Bombardier’s inven

The interns were grateful for the opportunity to meet with Brian Johnson, Chief Operating Officer of Enbridge, and Islam Elsayed, Senior Advisor for Government Affairs, to discuss our programme partner, Enbridge’s, extensive role in North America’s energy sector. Over the course of our meeting with Brian and Islam, we received a comprehensive overview of Enbridge’s operations and its far-reaching impact. The discussion highlighted several striking facts about the company’s sc

The OLIP interns recently had the pleasure of meeting with the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects for an informative discussion on the Association’s work and the broader role of landscape architecture in Ontario. We had the opportunity to engage in conversation with Aina Budrevics, Steven Shuttle, and Gabby Knight.  The Ontario Association of Landscape Architects is a self-regulating professional body that has operated in the province since 1968. As the regulator of