Reports

“When a significant portion of Canada’s human capital is under-utilized, policymakers must treat it as an urgent economic problem and respond with all available tools.”

AI is destined to transform just about everything — including the Canadian economy

"For Canada, the quality of public service has long been a competitive advantage. The key now is to set ourselves up to continue to be a global leader."

The crucial lessons of the last pandemic are being forgotten. Here's how Canada can close its health security gaps.

There was a lesson for Canada in what a German politician had to say about the gas market disruption in the months following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “We have a good chance to do what is normally impossible in Germany,” Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck said about Germany’s...

DOWNLOAD PDF “Why Atlantic Canada Remains White and Poor” — that was the blunt and provocative headline of a column in the Globe and Mail back in 2004, and if it was a bit unsettling, the column made a serious point. It was based on a Statistics Canada report tracking...

READ THE FULL REPORT ON ACTIONCANADA.CA The current economic model, driven by consumption and short-term value, has led to urban transportation systems in Canadian cities contributing significantly to environmental degradation. As the second-largest source of emissions in Canada, the existing model focuses on harm reduction rather than addressing the root...

DOWNLOAD PDF With three facilities in Nova Scotia, Michelin Canada is one of the province’s biggest private-sector employers and its single biggest exporter. So, when it announces a $300-million investment to expand and upgrade its facilities, that’s very good news for the province, and not just because it will create jobs. The investment is driven in...

A system that still uses faxes needs to shift into the smartphone era. It's time for an urgent modernization of the health-care system.

Federal and provincial governments, Indigenous communities and industry can leverage LNG development for a clean energy future. Here’s how

Few things are as foundational to the free movement of goods through an economy as a smoothly functioning trucking industry. Yet few industries in Atlantic Canada face as many regulations that seem almost designed to gum up the works. Take, as just one example, rules around the use of long-combination...

It struck the team from Thales Canada every time they landed in New Brunswick, and again on the day the multinational technology giant announced it would establish a National Digital Excellence Centre and move its cyber security operations to Fredericton. They’d been impressed by the economic vitality and the growing...