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Democracy Bootcamp 2018

Toronto, ON | April 5-6, 2018

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AGENDA

Thursday, April 5The Globe and Mail Centre, 351 King Street East - Level 17, Suite 1600

6:00 – 6:30pm Registration

6:30 – 6:45pm Welcome

6:45 - 8:30pm Fake News and News LiteracyExperts in the field of ‘fake news’ and media literacy discuss the current threats – and how we can prepare young people today to become media-savvy in an age of disinformation.• Peter Adams (News Literacy Project)• Elizabeth Dubois (University of Ottawa)• Craig Silverman (Buzzfeed)• Moderator: Sabrina Nanji (Toronto Star)

8:30pm Reception

Friday, April 6The Globe and Mail Centre, 351 King Street East - Level 17, Suite 1600

7:00 – 8:00am BREAKFAST

8:00 - 8:15am Opening remarks/table introductions

8:15 - 8:45am Review of Student VoteA review of the Student Vote program, how it works and the materials you will receive.

8:45 - 9:15am Why are we hereVoting trends and research, the importance of civic education and key findings from the recent Student Vote Evaluation.

9:15 – 10:00am Small group discussion

10:00 - 10:15am BREAK

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10:15 - 10:40am Presentation: Election IssuesExploring election issues and ways to ‘elevate the debate’ during the Ontario provincial election. • Sean Speer (University of Toronto School of Public

Policy and Governance)

10:40 - 11:00am Small group discussion

11:00am - 12:00pm Panel discussion: On the Campaign Trail A discussion on recent events, major issues and predictions for the upcoming Ontario election campaign.• Martin Regg Cohn (Toronto Star)• Jessica Smith Cross (QP Briefing)• Adam Radwanski (Globe and Mail)• Moderator: Jane Taber (National Public Relations)

12:00 – 12:45pm LUNCH

12:45 – 2:00pm Panel discussion: Inside the War RoomUnderstanding the strategies and tactics of the parties during an election campaign. • Jenni Byrne (Bayfield Strategy)• David Herle (Gandalf Group)• Kathleen Monk (Earnescliffe Strategy Group)• Moderator: David Walmsley (Globe and Mail)

2:00 – 2:30pm Panel discussion: Increasing your ImpactTeachers highlight best practices and approaches for wider engagement.

2:30 – 2:50pm Small group discussion

2:50 – 3:00pm Closing remarks

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@PeterD_Adams

PETER ADAMS

Peter Adams is the News Literacy Project’s senior vice president for educational programs and is based in Chicago. Peter began his career in education as a classroom teacher in the New York City schools through Teach For America. He has also taught in the Chicago public schools and at Roosevelt University and Chicago City Colleges’ Wilbur Wright campus. In addition, he has worked with the New York City Teaching Fellows Program, with After School Matters and as an independent education consultant.

Since joining NLP in 2009, he has coordinated classroom and after-school programs, served as Chicago program manager, worked on organizational strategy and developed NLP’s digital program. He has also provided news literacy training and workshops to educators and others throughout the area.

In January 2014 Peter became NLP’s senior vice president for educational programming, with primary responsibility for overseeing the classroom and digital programs and the curriculum and support materials.

He is a graduate of Indiana University, where he majored in English and African-American studies and co-founded an independent monthly student newspaper, and has a master’s degree in the humanities from the University of Chicago.

@lizdubois

ELIZABETH DUBOIS

Dr. Elizabeth Dubois writes, speaks, and teaches at the intersection of technology and politics. Technology critic meets advocate meets academic, she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa. Her work examines digital media, influence and political engagement.

Elizabeth is a graduate of the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford where she completed a DPhil (PhD) in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences as well as an MSc in the Social Sciences of the Internet (distinction). Elizabeth was a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow, Clarendon Fellow and Killam Fellow (Fulbright Canada).

Collaborating with non-profits, tech. companies, journalists and academics internationally, Elizabeth’s work is action oriented. From running an online survey that doubled as a voter information tool in the last federal election to writing op-eds, she endeavors to make her work accessible and valuable in a public forum.

As a Public Policy Forum Fellow Elizabeth is investigating public policy options around the future of news. She is also on the Advisory Board for Ottawa Civic Tech and an Academic Advisor for Samara. Previously Elizabeth worked on Parliament Hill (Canada) as a communications specialist for an MP, in climate change policy for an international human rights organization, and has consulted for other non-profit organizations.

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@sabrinananji

SABRINA NANJI

Sabrina Nanji joined the Toronto Star in September to cover the new democracy beat.

She previously reported on provincial politcs and policy at Queen’s Park Briefing and labour relations for Thomson Reuters.

She’s a Carleton University graduate and lives in Toronto.

@aradwanski

ADAM RADWANSKI

Adam Radwanski is the Globe and Mail’s political feature writer. He specializes in profiles of public figures and backroom players, and in-depth examinations of political phenomena and how campaigns and issues are playing out on the ground.

A National Newspaper Award winner, he also regularly writes political analysis columns, informed by his reporting. He spent a full year prior to the 2015 federal election writing about that campaign’s strategies, tactics, personalities and stakes, earning particular acclaim for his reporting on the Conservatives’ behind-the-scenes machinations during the final months of the Stephen Harper era.

Adam previously served as the Globe and Mail’s Ontario columnist, and before that was a member of the Globe’s editorial board. He made his start in journalism as the founder of Canada’s first online political magazine, was a columnist and editor at the National Post, and was managing editor for online services at Maclean’s.

@reggcohn

MARTIN REGG COHN

Martin Regg Cohn writes the Ontario politics column for the Toronto Star.

A foreign correspondent for 11 years, he was chief of the Middle East and Asia bureaus, then Foreign Editor, and a world affairs columnist. He has reported from more than 40 countries, from Afghanistan to Yemen, and been nominated five times for the National Newspaper Award. He previously covered national politics from Ottawa.

He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University’s Faculty of Arts.

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@CraigSilverman

CRAIG SILVERMAN

Craig Silverman is the editor of BuzzFeed Canada and the founder of Emergent.info, a real-time rumor tracker that was developed as part a fellowship with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. His work resulted in the Tow report, “Lies, Damn Lies and Viral Content: How News Websites Spread (and Debunk) Online Rumors, Unverified Claims and Misinformation.”

Craig also founded Regret the Error, a blog about media accuracy and the discipline of verification. It’s now part of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, where he serves as adjunct faculty. Prior to Poynter, he was editorial director and part of the team that launched OpenFile, an online news startup the delivered community-driven reporting in six Canadian cities.

Craig edited the Verification Handbook and the Verification Handbook For Investigative Journalism from the European Journalism Center. He is the former managing editor of PBS MediaShift and has been a columnist for the Globe And Mail, Toronto Star, and Columbia Journalism Review. His journalism and books have been honored by the Mirror Awards, National Press Club, National Magazine Awards (Canada), Canadian Online Publishing Awards, and Crime Writers of Canada.

@JaneTaber1

JANE TABER

Jane Taber is a veteran print and broadcast journalist who has spent her career covering Parliament Hill, and most recently Queen’s Park. During her tenure on Parliament Hill, Jane covered the Mulroney Progressive Conservatives, the Chretien Liberals and the Harper Conservatives. In 2015, she moved to Toronto to cover the Wynne Liberals and the Ontario legislature.

She’s spent more hours than she can count on campaign buses and planes following the leaders during election bids. She’s covered leadership contests, and all of the important issues of the day. Her network of contacts, political and influential Canadians, is vast. All of these issues and events were covered both in print (as a reporter at the Ottawa Citizen, the National Post and for 14 years at the Globe and Mail) and also on television and radio.

From 2005 to 2011, Jane was the co-host of CTV’s Question Period and interviewed all the main political players of the day on the hour-long broadcast. She was also the fill-in host on Mike Duffy Live and Power Play on CTV’s News Channel. Jane filled in, too, on CTV’s morning show, Canada AM. Before joining CTV’s Question Period, Jane was a regular contributor to CBC’s At Issue panel with Peter Mansbridge.

So, she knows television from both vantage points – as the interviewer and as the interviewee. As Vice-President, Corporate Affairs at NATIONAL’s Toronto office since September 2016, she now she brings her wealth of experience to the Firm, her colleagues and her clients.

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@Jenni_Byrne

JENNI BYRNE

Jenni Byrne is Vice President Strategic Communications at Bayfield Strategy.

Jenni is a seasoned communications and public affairs strategist. From 2009-2013, she was the Director of Political Operations for the Conservative Party of Canada, and served as the National Campaign Manager for the Conservatives in the 2011 and 2015 federal elections. In 2011, she became the first woman to manage a winning national campaign in Canada, helping deliver the Conservatives a majority government – the party’s first since 1988.

During her time with the Conservative Party, Jenni served in numerous other high-profile roles, including as Prime Minister Harper’s Director of Issues Management, and Deputy Chief of Staff. Her expertise in political strategy and campaign organization have made her a frequent guest on national and local television programs, and an advisor to political parties around the world.

In addition to her role at Bayfield, Jenni currently serves on the board of Team Rubicon Canada, an organization that unites the skills and experiences of military veterans with first responders to rapidly deploy emergency response teams.

@TheHerleBurly

DAVID HERLE

David Herle is one of Canada’s most sought after public affairs and corporate strategists, having helped CEOs manage crises, union leaders shape their public appeals and directing winning campaigns for both prime ministers and premiers. With his dual expertise in strategy and research, David excels in brand image and reputation management.

David’s policy experience includes working on nine consecutive federal government budgets, most notably the landmark 1995 budget that paved the way for eliminating the federal deficit by dramatically cutting government spending. That budget turned conventional political wisdom on its head by making a “bad news” budget a huge political success. David also served as Premier Kathleen Wynne’s campaign co-chair and steered the Ontario Liberals to a majority government in 2014. As the national campaign chair for the Liberal Party, he also helped to engineer the Right Honourable Paul Martin’s electoral victory in 2004. In 2016, he was awarded the Reed Award from Campaigns and Elections for the best international political advertising campaign for his work on the Justin Trudeau Liberal campaign.

David is the Principal Partner at the The Gandalf Group, and the Managing Co-Chair of the Ontario Liberal Party Election Campaign.

A Saskatchewan native, David earned his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Regina and was called to the Bar in Ontario after receiving his LLB from the University of Saskatchewan.

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@kathleenmonk

KATHLEEN MONK

Kathleen is a public affairs and campaign consultant with over 15 years of experience in media, government and the non-profit sector. Kathleen excels at crafting compelling messages to accelerate change, bringing together diverse stakeholders and telling authentic stories that deliver results.

A prominent and sought-after media commentator on politics and public affairs, Ms. Monk appears regularly on CBC The National’s preeminent political panel, The Insiders, and provides analysis for CBC News Network’s Power and Politics.

Ms. Monk was the founding Executive Director of the Broadbent Institute, a progressive organization focused on public policy and training. Prior to that, she served as Director of Strategic Communications for New Democrat Party leader Jack Layton and was the Campaign Spokesperson & Media Director during the 2011 Canadian federal election campaign.

Before entering her career in politics, Kathleen worked in newsrooms in Toronto, Ottawa and Washington.

Kathleen appears regularly as a guest speaker for businesses and organizations where she speaks on Canada’s political landscape, campaigns and progressive politics. She remains an active volunteer with Equal Voice where she focuses on how to field, nurture and promote more women candidates to every level of political office in Canada.

@WalmsleyGlobe

DAVID WALMSLEY

David Walmsley was appointed the 12th editor-in-chief of the Globe and Mail in March 2014.

He oversees a stable of 265 journalists in Canada and around the world. Internationally, the Globe and Mail is recognized as a digital leader in journalism. David is a founding member of The Trust Project, a Board member of the Arthur F Burns Fellowship and a member of the international media council of the World Economic Forum.

He is the chair of the Canadian Journalism Foundation, a non-profit organisation that represents all Canadian journalism in furthering the understanding of journalism in a democracy. He is the creator of World News Day, an annual audience initiative involving media organisations around the world. He also sits on the advisory board of the digital media zone at Ryerson University, Toronto.

He read Politics at The University of Leeds, England, was crowned Northern Ireland young journalist of the year 1994 and has worked as a reporter and editor for leading newspapers in the UK as well as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and leading newspapers in Canada.

He was Associate Producer of a Channel 4 documentary in Britain, The Final Flight of Zulu Delta 576. This was part of a successful investigation to clear the names of two pilots posthumously accused without evidence of causing the worst helicopter accident in Royal Air Force history. The investigation took 17 years.

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@Sean_Speer

SEAN SPEER

Sean Speer is sessional instructor and a fellow at the University of Toronto’s School of Public Policy and Governance. He is also a Senior Fellow for fiscal policy at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and an associate fellow at the R Street Institute.

He previously served in different roles for the federal government including as senior economic advisor to the Prime Minister. He has been cited by The Hill Times as one of the most influential people in government and by Embassy Magazine as one of the top 80 people influencing Canadian foreign policy.

He has written extensively about federal policy issues, including taxes and government spending, retirement income security, social mobility, and economic competitiveness. His articles have appeared in every major national and regional newspaper in Canada (including the Globe and Mail and National Post) as well as prominent US-based publications (including the Wall Street Journal and National Review Online). Sean holds an M.A. in History from Carleton University and has studied economic history as a PhD candidate at Queen’s University.

@jessiecatherine

JESSICA SMITH CROSS

Jessica Smith Cross is the editor of QP Briefing, an online subscription-based news service. She leads a team of reporters who cover Ontario politics and policy – elections, nominations, bills, policies, programs and committee meetings, as well as the key players in politics, the civil service, MPPs, lobbyists, stakeholders and interest groups.

Jessica’s reporting on Ontario politics has been carried by Canada’s major news organizations, including the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail and the National Post.

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CIVIX is a non-partisan, national registered charity dedicated to building the skills and habits of active and engaged citizenship among young Canadians. Our vision is a strong and inclusive democracy where all young people are ready, willing and able to participate.

CIVIX provides authentic learning opportunities to help young Canadians practice their rights and responsibilities as citizens, and connect with their democratic institutions. Instead of studying about democracy from a textbook, they experience it first-hand with real issues in real-time.

Student VoteStudent Vote is a parallel election for students under the voting age, that coincides with actual federal, provincial/territorial and municipal elections. Students learn about government and the electoral process, research the parties and platforms, discuss relevant issues and participate in an authentic vote for local election candidates. The results are shared with news media for broadcast and publication.

NewsWiseNewsWise is a news literacy program to provide school-aged Canadians an understanding of the role of journalism in a healthy democracy and the tools to find and filter information online. CIVIX will be collaborating with Canadian Journalism Foundation to develop the project, with support from Google Canada. The program will be a part of the Student Vote campaign, rolling out to coincide with the Ontario provincial election in 2018, and other upcoming local and provincial elections, culminating nationally with the 2019 federal election.

Student Budget ConsultationThe Student Budget Consultation is a civic education and financial literacy initiative that directly involves students in the government budget consultation process. Students learn about government revenues and expenditures, and debate spending priorities before offering opinions on the upcoming budget. Those opinions are recorded in a survey and the results are shared with the government and media.

Rep DayRep Day connects students with their locally elected representatives providing a unique dialogue and exchange of ideas on current issues. The initiative aims to break down the stereotypes that young people have of politicians and the political process, replacing them with an appreciation and sense of trust in the people and institutions within our democracy.

Democracy BootcampDemocracy Bootcamp is a professional development conference for teachers designed to improve their democratic engagement and instructional capacity. By sharing an insider’s look at campaigns, exploring research and trends, and introducing new tools for civic education, Democracy Bootcamp expands teachers’ comprehension and interest in Canadian democracy.

Democracy Bootcamp has been made possible by the generous support of the Government of Ontario:

www.civix.ca | 1-866-488-8775

CIVIX would also like to acknowledge the support of the following partners: