Dr. James P. Feehan, Economics, presented a paper titled Public Infrastructure as Common Property at the annual conference of the Canadian Economics Association, which was held June 3-6 at Ryerson University in Toronto.

Dr. Rob Greenwood, director of the new Centre of Regional Development Studies (CORDS), has been presenting on CORDS to interested stakeholders around the province. On Monday, June 28, he presented at the Labrador West Chamber of Commerce. On June 3, he presented to the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Community Business Development Corporations in Stephenville and to the Humber Valley Centre of Environmental Excellence (CEE), Steering Committee in Corner Brook. On June 4, he presented to the Newfoundland and Labrador Regional Economic Development Association in Carbonear. Dr. Greenwood also participated in the following: invited speaker, panel discussion – What is Good Evaluation? Canadian Evaluation Society, NL Chapter, St. John’s, June 7; invited keynote presentation, Governance and Regional Development in Atlantic Canada: Informing a Focus for Cape Breton Island, at the University College Cape Breton; and The State of Cape Breton Island Annual Conference 2004: Governance and Economic Development, in Sydney, June 17. Dr. Greenwood invited speaker, Partnerships, Collaboration and Horizontal Policy Development: Scars from 2 Provinces, to the Ontario Public Service, Expert Policy Forum – Growing Strong Rural and Northern Communities: Partnerships, Collaboration and Horizontal Policy Development, Toronto and webcast to 10 locations in Northern and Southern Ontario, June 23.