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The Public Policy Forum has produced hundreds of reports since our inception in 1987. This site features reports from 2012 and after, as well as our most popular and referenced publications from earlier years. If there is a specific report you cannot find, please contact us. 

Developing Canada’s Digital-Ready Public Service

Developing Canada’s Digital-Ready Public Service

Attracting and Retaining a Highly Skilled, Diverse Workforce to Support the Government of Canada’s Digital Strategy

Authors: Wendy Cukier
Released: Friday March 8, 2019

Canada’s public service has charted an ambitious information management and technology strategy, and talent is one of its pillars. Finding innovative approaches to attracting, developing, and retaining the best and brightest requires rethinking many traditional assumptions and harnessing new approaches. What can be done to attract a skilled and diverse workforce?
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Food Innovation in Canada’s North: The case for a social enterprise cluster

Food Innovation in Canada’s North: The case for a social enterprise cluster

An Action Canada Task Force report

Released: Thursday March 7, 2019

Our Task Force conducted a preliminary study of the feasibility of an Arctic Food Innovation Cluster in Canada. The intent of such a cluster is to advance increased access to affordable, culturally informed, healthy food across northern regions. The cluster’s secondary objective is to foster further innovations within the North’s commercial food production industry via new food production methods (e.g., full utilization of harvested fish), value chains, and/or governance models. This would, in turn, boost local economic development opportunities within these northern communities.
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Opioid Addiction Treatment in 2019

Opioid Addiction Treatment in 2019

Pathways to Recovery: How can Canadians Overcome Opioid Addiction?

Released: Thursday March 14, 2019

Canada can stem the tide of the opioid crisis. Among Canadians, there is hope that hastening access to treatments that work, learning from and scaling up best practices, and continuing coordinated efforts between all stakeholders will positively impact the pathways to treatment services - beyond just overdose treatment. This report discusses opportunities for policy makers to engage on harm reduction, equitable access to treatment and support, and collaboration and coordination following a PPF roundtable on opioid misuse in December 2018.
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The Values Proposition: Strengthening Sport in Canada

The Values Proposition: Strengthening Sport in Canada

Symposium Report

Released: Wednesday March 13, 2019

Canada is a great sporting nation, but we need values-based sport to prevent unethical practices from undermining the integrity of sport. Concrete actions must be taken by stakeholders in Canadian sport to make values-based sport the foundation of their policies and practices. This report outlines the game plan for government, media, corporations, philanthropists, educators, coaches and athletes.
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Making Informed Food Choices

Making Informed Food Choices

An Action Canada Task Force report

Released: Thursday March 7, 2019

A lack of information about some aspects of food makes it difficult for Canadians to make informed food choices. Our Task Force set out to address this by considering what policy decisions could improve Canadians' ability to make informed food choices.
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Permanently Impermanent: Migrant agricultural workers in Canada

Permanently Impermanent: Migrant agricultural workers in Canada

An Action Canada Task Force report

Released: Thursday March 7, 2019

Action Canada Task Force hears from workers, administrators and farmers that existing programs don't work quite right and they need to for Canada's agricultural sector to thrive.
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Transformational Gains

Transformational Gains

What Canada Needs to Strengthen Innovative Capacity and Global Competitiveness

Released: Tuesday February 5, 2019

Global events are creating unprecedented opportunities for Canada to attract capital, talent and companies. In an age of disruptive technological advances, Canada must focus on research, talent and innovation to strengthen its innovative capacity, global competitiveness, and economic and social fabric.  
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Sustainable Finance Roundtable Series Summary

Sustainable Finance Roundtable Series Summary

Released: Thursday January 31, 2019

How can Canada can align financial policies and practices to climate change and sustainable development goals? This report summarizes five roundtables hosted by PPF and the Ivey Foundation with experts across Canada.
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