Search Results for: Atlantic Canada
Fault Lines and Common Ground
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What divides urban and rural voters? What unites them? In this second report on the Urban-Rural divide in Canada, Sean Speer and his team take a closer look at the Canadian Election Study and find that urban and rural Canadians have divergent opinions on many key issues, but they also agree to a large extent on many others. As populism grows across the western world, policymakers in Canada need to understand the implications.
Date: Wednesday February 3, 2021
PANEL 2—Canada’s emerging innovators face funding, talent and culture gaps
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Growing Canadian firms are selling out earlier and at lower valuations than US counterparts Panel 2 | Emerging Innovators: The Job of Growing New Businesses in Canada Oct. 12, 2016,...
Date: Wednesday October 19, 2016
A Place-Based Lens to the Future Of Work in Canada
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An urban-rural scan of potential long-term effects of the future of work shows the negative effects of a displaced workforce will be felt disproportionately among rural residents, who make up the majority of high-risk employment sectors that will succumb to technology-induced disruption. Understanding how these changes could affect urban centres vs. rural areas is a crucial ingredient to long-term policymaking and key to creating an effective place-based policy agenda for Canada to manage those disruptions and keep an urban-rural economic divide that already exists from growing
Date: Thursday June 11, 2020
The Mother of Invention: Skills for Innovation in the Post-Pandemic World
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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many workplaces to innovate rapidly in order to simply survive. But innovation is a critical component of our economic prosperity even during normal times. To be successful, Canada’s skills strategies must address skills for innovation across sectors — from solo entrepreneurs, to small and medium-sized businesses, to large corporations and even within government itself. While Canada has made significant efforts to foster a strong innovation economy, the pandemic has helped to reveal where these efforts have created strong foundations for success as well as areas where much remains to be done.
Date: Wednesday June 9, 2021
Leveraging Canada’s Innovation Ecosystem: Opportunities to Increase R&D Investment in Canada
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...with executives from Canadian subsidiary firms, Leveraging Canada’s Innovation Ecosystem identifies key drivers and barriers in attracting foreign direct investment in Canadian R&D – and highlights opportunities to improve Canada’s...
Date: Tuesday January 19, 2016
Action Canada Fellowship 2018 – FAQ
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...of the candidate’s application. To whom should I address my application? Applications should be addressed to the Action Canada Fellowship, National Selection Committee. Is the Action Canada Fellowship...
Date: Friday February 16, 2018
Announcing PPF’s 2019 Prime Ministers of Canada Fellow
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PPF’s 2019 Prime Ministers of Canada Fellow Sean Speer to study urban-rural divide.
Date: Thursday August 8, 2019
PANEL 3—Established companies must ‘disrupt ourselves’ to be innovative and stay ahead
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...remarks: Kevin Lynch, Vice-Chair, BMO Financial Group Panelists: Alain Bellemare, President & CEO Bombardier Elaine Campbell, Interim President, Innovative Medicines Canada Stephen Carlisle, President & Managing Director, GM Canada Lorraine...
Date: Wednesday October 19, 2016
Prime Ministers of Canada Fellowship
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The Prime Ministers of Canada Fellowship was established in 2012 to mark the Public Policy Forum’s 25th anniversary, when all living former Prime Ministers were honoured at the Testimonial Dinner and Awards in Toronto. The Fellowship brings prominent Canadian leaders to PPF for a year to conduct research and convene dialogues about public policy, democratic institutions and good governance.
Date: Wednesday October 18, 2017
Canada and the OECD: 50 years of converging interests
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2010 marked the beginning of the 50th anniversary celebrations for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Canada was among the first nations to join the OECD, indeed, the very first...
Date: Monday December 5, 2011
Putting down roots: How community gardens help immigrant retention
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Cultural food security is key to how and whether immigrants take root in their new home. In Halifax, Common Roots Urban Farm was the only source of some traditional foods for newcomers, but the community garden was shut down and no one knows where – or if – it will rise again.
Date: Wednesday December 12, 2018
PPF Names Award for Frank McKenna
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...policy debate and decisions in one of the four Atlantic provinces, the overall region or nationally. “Frank has been the indefatigable champion of New Brunswick and Atlantic Canada for more...
Date: Friday November 24, 2017
TOP TAKEAWAYS | The day in 5 minutes
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...as congestion and pollution, and care about the responsible development of natural resources. Canadian federal and provincial carbon pricing schemes are changing the cost landscape in which firms compete. https://medium.com/canada-growth-summit/how-canada-can-thrive-in-a-slow-growth-fast-change-world-79a94322c506...
Date: Thursday October 13, 2016
Capturing a Carbon Opportunity
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If the climate challenge confronting Canada is evident, so too is the economic opportunity out there to be captured. The twin objectives are clear and measurable: We must meet our 2030 GHG emission reduction targets on the way to a net-zero future by 2050, and we must do it in a manner that ensures jobs, growth and a strong economy. The good news is that a sightline to that future – one where a national carbon management strategy is critical to meeting our objectives – is coming into clear focus.
Date: Thursday August 26, 2021
Lessons in Resilience: Canada’s Digital Media Ecosystem and the 2019 Election
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Canada's 2019 federal election provided a unique opportunity to investigate mis/ disinformation. The Digital Democracy Project looked at 12 threats to citizens' online sources of information to uncover how resilient Canadians' are in the face of disinformation. Read the main findings to better understand polarization and about online media bubbles in which Canadians live.
Date: Thursday May 7, 2020