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Storytelling leads the way for inclusive policy design

Gayathri Shukla: “Storytelling remains one of the most powerful tools available to ask questions, learn from diverse voices and clarify our shared values”

Thursday March 16, 2023
Storytelling and public policy are not typically words you see going together. Yet the point where disparate ideas meet, is also where you can expect to break new ground. The All-In: Pathways to Economic and Financial Inclusion project at PPF represented such a point, where innovative storytelling met a topic...
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Welcome, reimagined

Tuesday February 21, 2023
By tackling a global humanitarian crisis in Ukraine head on, Newfoundland and Labrador is addressing both a retention dilemma and a growing workforce shortage. Now, more than ever, the Rock’s ‘come-from-aways’ want to stay. Gerry Byrne’s office had no template to work from in February 2022 when Russia began its...
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An open letter to Canadians: Fixing health care starts now — and with you

Monday January 23, 2023
Our health-care system belongs to all of us. It is not a possession of politicians, or the property of stakeholders claiming special status to speak in its interest. They are the custodians, the guardians to whom we have entrusted the system’s welfare. The owners are the 39 million Canadians who...
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PPF’s 2022 Holiday Book List for the Wonk in Your Life!

Tuesday December 20, 2022
During the day, staff at the Public Policy Forum spend a lot of time reading everything from research papers to draft documents, background material to under-construction reports. So, guess what happens at the end of the workday? Yup, even more reading – because after work we can really wonk out...
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Five Questions for Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

Monday November 21, 2022
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, exiled National Leader of Belarus and Head of the United Transitional Cabinet, sat down with Katherine Feenan, Director of Policy and Content Programming at the Public Policy Forum, on Monday in Ottawa. Their conversation ranged from individual sanctions to the need for investigative journalism and a mother’s resolute...
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How to Restore the Labour Market Balance: Transcript

Thursday November 17, 2022
Bank of Canada Governor Dr. Tiff Macklem told a lunchtime audience at the Toronto Metropolitan University that “two or three-quarters of slightly negative growth are just as likely as two or three-quarters of slightly positive growth.” His speech, titled The Evolution of Canadian Labour Markets, was hosted by the Public...
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Canada’s Next Leap of Faith

From resource reliance to natural resilience

Saturday November 5, 2022
November marks the 40th anniversary of Donald Macdonald’s Royal Commission on Canada’s Economic Prospects, with its signature recommendation to take a leap of faith on free trade with the United States (Mr. Macdonald is pictured above.) The Public Policy Forum has marked the occasion with a new report by Sean Speer...
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The Deep, Blue Sink

Behind the silo-busting effort to harness a “severely understudied” climate change tool

Tuesday October 11, 2022
In one of Canada’s coastal provinces, a concerted effort is underway to determine exactly how the impacts of a rapidly warming climate can be mitigated by the largest carbon sink on the planet: the ocean. The scientists, entrepreneurs and academics behind this push say their work is long overdue. They...
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A Labour Force Paradigm Shift

How two New Brunswick employers are facing a flip in job market dynamics

Tuesday October 11, 2022
Two fast-growing New Brunswick employers are reimagining their approach to hiring as they something of a new problem in the province: more available jobs than qualified employees to fill them. It’s a crunch being felt nationwide: Canada’s unemployment rate remained near its historic low in August 2022. In Atlantic Canada,...
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