Associate Professor, Public Policy and Administration, York University, Canada
Zachary Spicer is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at York University.
He holds a PhD in Political Science from The University of Western Ontario and began his career as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brock University after completing post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Municipal Finance and Governance and the Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy at Wilfrid Laurier University. He has also served as a Senior Policy Advisor with the Ontario Public Service and as the Director of Research and Outreach with the Institute of Public Administration of Canada. He is the recipient of both the Susan Clarke Young Scholars’ Award and the Norton Long Young Scholars’ Award from the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.
If we want better municipal politicians, we should pay better wages
Jul 23, 2022 16:19 pm UTC| Politics
Ontarios 2022 municipal election campaign is well underway, as is British Columbias. Four years ago in Ontario, 6,658 candidates put their names forward for 2,864 seats on local councils. Its safe to assume a similar...
There’s an extra $1 billion on the table for NT schools. This could change lives if spent well