About C2C Journal

c2c: Canada’s Journal of Ideas is a new online journal which launched in May 2007. It publishes articles by established and emerging authors quarterly; readers discuss and debate articles in this online forum.

Editorial Board

• 

  Andrea Mrozek has a Master’s Degree in History from the University of Toronto, and is Manager of Research and Communications at the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. Andrea writes and speaks about education, child care, women’s issues and how family life affects the economy, and vice versa. Since joining the Institute in 2006, she has authored a number of influential pieces including Private Choices, Public Costs: How Failing Families Cost Us All about the national public costs of family breakdown. She is also author of The Cost of a Free Lunch: The Real Costs of the Pascal Early Learning Plan for Ontario, which pegged the cost of all-day kindergarten, and Canada’s Top Family Friendly Cities, a national report card showing what makes Canadian cities great for families. Andrea’s opinion pieces have appeared in the National Post, Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun, Calgary Herald, Montreal Gazette, Toronto Sun and the Ottawa Citizen, among others. She is frequently on TV and radio stations across Canada and a frequent guest speaker on a range of topics including women’s rights. In 2008, she launched the first exclusively female pro-life voice website in Canada with a team of bloggers at ProWomanProLife.org. She has been an intern at the Fraser Institute and Toronto Life magazine. Born in Toronto, Andrea moved to Calgary to work as Associate Editor for the Western Standard, a Calgary-based news magazine. She now calls Ottawa home.

• 

  Kathleen Welsch is C2C Journal’s assistant editor and has over ten years Executive Assistant and management experience. She is currently a Business and International Relations student at the University of Calgary. Kathleen also serves as an advisor on the Conservative party’s Calgary Centre Advisory Council and is a member of its Policy Committee.

• 

  Sylvia LeRoy is a strategic communications advisor for the National Research Council. She previously worked as a policy and communications consultant for a wide range of government, corporate and non-profit clients, and as a policy analyst and research centre director at The Fraser Institute. Sylvia also currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Civitas Society.

• 

  Joseph Quesnel is an Alberta-based policy analyst with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, where he writes about Aboriginal and property rights policy, among other issues. He is a columnist for the Winnipeg Sun and contributes to the Taxpayer, the flagship publication of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Of Metis background, he contributes a column to the Drum/First Perspective, a national Aboriginal newspaper based in Winnipeg.

  Joseph holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and history from McGill University and is completing a master of journalism degree at Carleton University.

• 

  Chris Schafer, B.A. (Laurier), M.A. (Western), LL.B. (Osgoode Hall), is the Executive Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation. Prior to joining the Canadian Constitution Foundation, he was an associate at Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP in Ottawa. He previously worked at the Fraser Institute, the Cato Institute, and the Office of the Leader of the Official Opposition. A published author, Chris has written several studies and articles on public policy and legal issues.

• 

  Adam Daifallah is a Montreal-based lawyer, author and journalist. He has worked as a member of the National Post editorial board and as a Washington correspondent for The New York Sun. He is the co-author of two books on Canadian politics.

• 

  Mark Milke Ph.D., is the chairman of the C2C Journal’s editorial board, and director of Alberta policy studies for the Fraser Institute. Mark has written extensively on a variety of topics throughout his career which includes previous positions at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation in Alberta and then British Columbia, and more recently as research director for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. His policy papers include work on airline competition, public subsidies for political parties, the Canada Pension Plan, Canada-US relations, Alberta’s Heritage Fund, automobile insurance, and the flat tax.

  He is the author of three books on Canadian politics and policy: Tax Me I’m Canadian, Barbarians in the Garden City, and A Nation of Serfs. In addition to his policy work, In 2006, Mark co-wrote columns with Preston Manning on the future of Alberta. Mark is also a Sunday columnist for the Calgary Herald and a monthly columnist for Business in Vancouver. Mark’s work has also appeared in the National Post, Globe and Mail, Reader’s Digest, Edmonton Journal, Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Province and Victoria Times Colonist and the Washington D.C.–based magazine, The Weekly Standard among other publications.

  Mark has a Master’s degree from the University of Alberta where his M.A. thesis analyzed human rights in East Asia; he also has a Ph.D. from the University of Calgary where he also lectures in Political Philosophy, International Relations and Political Ideologies; his doctoral dissertation analyzed the rhetoric of Canadian-American relations.

• 

  Heather Devlin MacDermid is a member of the Board of Directors of c2c. She is a health policy analyst, and graduate of the University of Western Ontario with an Honours Bachelor of Arts and a Master’s degree in political science. She was a policy advisor to the Hon. Tony Clement, Minister of Health (Ontario).

• 

  Patrick M. Callaghan co-founded c2c and serves on its Board of Directors. He is a Chartered Accountant in San Diego, California. He is a graduate of the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.