ABOUT

YYC Policy is based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and was founded in September 2018. Our mandate is to bridge the gap between universities and the public. As current University of Calgary Master of Public Policy students, we built this blog to enhance our learning experience and engage in public discourse. We research in the following areas: big data and privacy policy, defence policy, energy and environmental policy, fiscal and economic policy, international policy and trade, health and social policy, and urban policy. We invite students, alumni, faculty members, and community members to submit their policy-related writing to us. If you have any comments or would like to get involved, please visit our submissions page.

MANDATE

Accessibility

We are dedicated to making academic and government publications accessible to ordinary citizens. This means that we remove technical terms and engage with our readers.

Rigour

We write, we revise, we write again. Everything that we publish has undergone peer-review, with multiple editors from multiple disciplines. We sometimes feature our own photography, and when we don’t, we use copyright free photos from Unsplash.

IMPACT

We work to serve our communities and strive for objectivity. There is no such thing as 'good' or 'bad' policy, only effective policy.