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WATCH | Premier Jason Kenney: Three forms of reconciliation Alberta's provincial government is working toward

At the 2019 Peter Lougheed Awards Dinner, Premier of Alberta Jason Kenney explored three forms of reconciliation for Alberta's provincial government: with Alberta’s Indigenous people, of energy growth and environmental stewardship, and of the provincial and federal fields within Canadian Confederation.

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People-Centric Economic Development: Lessons on International Student Retention from Atlantic Canada

The economic fortunes of rural Canada depend on attracting human capital and while international students are highly skilled & qualified candidates for settlement, they don't often stick around. PPF Fellow Sean Speer identifies lessons from two promising programs in Atlantic Canada which seem to be convincing students to settle, against the odds.

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WATCH | Stuck in the Corner: The U.S.-China strategic rivalry and how Canada plays it

Dr. Graham Allison, one-time Assistant Secretary of Defense and founding dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, joined POLITICO's Luiza Savage, Ottawa University's Pascale Massot and Sen. Peter Harder to decipher the most important relationships of our time - the U.S. and China - and how Canada can play it.

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Announcing Brian Bohunicky as PPF's New Vice-President Of Policy

With Brian comes rigour, quality and depth. Welcome!

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A New North Star: Canadian Competitiveness in an Intangibles Economy

Rapid and far-reaching changes to the global economy, driven by technology, demographics and geopolitics, are forcing us to rethink some of the core assumptions of what makes a nation competitive or not. Robert Asselin and Sean Speer offer a bi-partisan strategy for what Canada can do in a data-driven 'intangibles' economy.

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