alexandra ages /maxbellschool/taxonomy/term/3386/all en Alexandra Ages on the Urgent Need for a National Gender-Based Violence Commissioner in Canada | Policy Options /maxbellschool/channels/news/alexandra-ages-urgent-need-national-gender-based-violence-commissioner-canada-policy-options-365140 <p>February 18, 2025 | MPP '21 Alexandra Ages writes how the alarming rise in intimate-partner violence and femicide across Canada, emphasizing that urgent action and accountability are needed to address this crisis. She argues that appointing a national gender-based violence commissioner would provide crucial oversight and help ensure effective implementation of the National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence.</p> Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:56:31 +0000 isabela.sullivan@mcgill.ca 3346 at /maxbellschool Alexandra Ages on Big Tech’s Growing Power and the Urgent Need for Digital Rights and Worker Protections | Perspectives Journal /maxbellschool/channels/news/alexandra-ages-big-techs-growing-power-and-urgent-need-digital-rights-and-worker-protections-365141 <p>February 26, 2025 | MPP ’21 Alexandra Ages examines the growing concentration of power held by big tech companies like Meta, Amazon, and Google, highlighting their expanding influence not only in politics and geopolitics but also in everyday life through data commodification, surveillance, and labor exploitation. She underscores the urgent need for stronger regulations to protect personal privacy, ensure workers’ rights, and prevent the erosion of democratic accountability in the face of a digital oligarchy that increasingly shapes society and governance.</p> Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:02:32 +0000 isabela.sullivan@mcgill.ca 3347 at /maxbellschool Alexandra Ages on the Impact of Alberta's Bill 27 on consent education in schools | Policy Options /maxbellschool/channels/news/alexandra-ages-impact-albertas-bill-27-consent-education-schools-policy-options-362552 <p>December 12, 2024 | Alumna Alexandra Ages, MPP'21, wrote an article for <a href="https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/december-2024/alberta-consent-law/">Policy Options</a> examining the implications of Alberta’s Bill 27 on sexual health education.</p> Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:49:30 +0000 isabela.sullivan@mcgill.ca 3266 at /maxbellschool Getting Into Grad School: Writing a Personal Statement /maxbellschool/writing-personal-statement Read about MPP alumna Alexandra Age's journey to graduate school, and how she crafted her personal statement. Tue, 09 Nov 2021 20:46:53 +0000 Alexandra Ages 2707 at /maxbellschool The Emergencies Act is Dead | Canadian Science Policy Centre /maxbellschool/channels/news/emergencies-act-dead-canadian-science-policy-centre-329103 <p>February 10, 2021 | As each province deals with their respective struggles in healthcare capacity, vaccination rates, travel restrictions, and other COVID-19 related policies, the federal government weighs the possibility declaring a national crisis. Take a look at what Max Bell School alumni Anil Wasif, Alexandra Ages, Ellen Rowe, and Leonardo Lozano have to say about the evolving landscape of federal pandemic policy in Canada. </p> <p><a href="https://sciencepolicy.ca/posts/the-emergencies-act-is-dead/">Read the article</a></p> Tue, 23 Feb 2021 18:48:25 +0000 chloe.rodriguez@mail.mcgill.ca 2388 at /maxbellschool