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Public Service Innovation and Leadership During COVID-19: Leadership under pressure

Join the PPF Academy and the Canada School of Public Service for our second event on Public Service Innovation and Leadership During COVID-19. We’ll dive into two cases where public servants showed crisis leadership by repatriating Canadians from around the world and by creating the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB)....

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PPF Fall Lecture: Policy Making in a Time of Pandemic

Since 2006, Public Policy Forum (PPF) has hosted an annual Fall Lecture to explore the critical role the public service plays in preserving a resilient and vibrant Canadian society. The event has featured lectures and panels on pressing public service and policy issues and since 2019 has included a workshop...

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We’re Going Virtual | 33rd Annual Testimonial Dinner & Awards

NEW DATES – OCTOBER 15, 2020 and OCTOBER 22, 2020 The Public Policy Forum’s Honour Roll is going virtual! We have been gratified at the support we have received for rescheduling through our consultations with sponsors, partners and Honourees. They have told us of the importance they place in these...

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We’re Going Virtual | PPF’s Rebuild Canada Growth Summit 2020

In light of the ongoing pandemic and related public restrictions, the Canada Growth Summit will take on a new look for 2020. The entirely virtual Summit will comprise a collection of 60 minute sessions held on different days throughout a four-week period from October 19 to November 10. Generally, each...

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Energy Future Forum’s Hydrogen Workshop

This event is by invitation only. The Energy Future Forum’s Hydrogen Workshop seeks to virtually convene experts and thought-leaders to engage participants on the future of hydrogen in Canada and around the world in order to meet and/or exceed our 2030 Paris target and to net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Public Service Innovation and Leadership: Citizens at the Centre during COVID-19

Join the PPF Academy’s roundtable on digital innovation during COVID-19 examining two government initiatives from two jurisdictions. Both cases highlight the rapid development of digital tools to serve citizens better during the crisis. Faced with a global pandemic, governments in Canada and around the world have had to respond to...

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Webinar: Industrial Policy for Canada in a post-COVID World

The world was changing prior to COVID-19. Technology and geopolitics were transformed by the rise of intangible capital and its tendency towards a “winner-take- all” paradigm. One manifestation was a new U.S.-China “cold war.” Another was the rise of big global tech giants. COVID-19 has exacerbated these trends. Join our...

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Turning Point 2020: When the Future of Work Became the Present

Virtual Conference

When we look back on 2020, we’ll see a turning point, but right now the destination is unclear. This free, 3-part virtual conference on the future of work in Canada was held on June 16, 17, & 18th, 2020.

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Rebuild Canada

In May, PPF launched a new project: Rebuild Canada. Over the next six months, the initiative will examine how the Covid-19 pandemic can be a catalyst for a more resilient, productive, and fairer Canadian economy and society. It will culminate in the publication of a series of solutions-orientated policy...

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Atlantic Summit 2020

Pivot to Prosperity

How does Atlantic Canada need to pivot priorities for regional economic growth and immigration for post-pandemic prosperity? Atlantic Summit 2020 brings together leaders in policy development, government, business, education and social services for a forward-looking exploration of what it will take to confront old challenges compounded by new crisis.

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Action Canada 2019/2020 presents The Future of Work

After a 10-month study of the future of work that started last June in Vancouver and saw the group travel to from Dawson City, YK to Bridgewater, NS and many places in between, this year’s Action Canada Fellows will present their final reports and recommendations. Each cohort of Fellows examines...

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Nova Scotia Employer Consultation: Finding and Retaining Skilled Workers

Employers across Atlantic Canada are facing labour and skill shortages. Retention of young people and newcomers in the region remains a challenge, and many people who relocate elsewhere in Canada report jobs as a leading cause for their decision to move away. To truly understand the issues that Atlantic Canada is facing, PPF and Professor Tony Fang from Memorial University are conducting a roundtable discussion in Nova Scotia to learn about employer experiences and priorities regarding hiring and retaining skilled workers.

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New North Star II – Roundtable Vancouver

This closed roundtable discussion is part of a series of consultations that will feed into PPF’s latest work on Canadian Economic Competitiveness. Building off our April 2019 report A New North Star, we are now deepening the conversation to understand how the rise of an intangibles economy is affecting different industries...

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