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Opinion: How Canada could strike a grand bargain on climate and energy
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OPINION: Needed: A grand bargain on climate and energy. How: The Energy Future Forum brings together the players — from oil and gas producers to environmentalists, governments, bankers, utilities, academics and Indigenous leaders. The Mission: To find ways Canada can meet or exceed its targets under the Paris climate agreement on the way to a net-zero future, while strengthening the economy and enhancing national unity. When: Now.
Date: Wednesday February 5, 2020
PANEL 1 — Canada’s unique chance for growth: Attract return-hungry global investors to badly needed…
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Panelists make case for a federal infrastructure bank, inclusive growth, change in monetary policy and a collaborative approach to growing companies Canada Growth Summit, Panel 1 | Beyond a Two...
Date: Monday October 17, 2016
Canada strives to position itself as an agri-food powerhouse
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Strengthening Canada’s competitiveness in global food production could drive economic growth for decades to come and deliver broad societal benefits. Now is the time to make it happen. By Lee-Anne...
Date: Tuesday April 25, 2017
Top business and government leaders gather for PPF Growth Summit and Testimonial Dinner on April 12
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Canada Growth Summit 3 | #PPFgrowth TORONTO, ON, April 9, 2018 – The Public Policy Forum is bringing together Canada’s major government and business leaders April 12 in Toronto for...
Date: Monday April 9, 2018
Despite Trump rhetoric, Canada-U.S. relationship is strong, Freeland says
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Canada can both defend its national economic interests and its values, foreign minister says Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland talks to the Wall Street Journal’s Elena Cherney at the...
Date: Wednesday April 26, 2017
New North Star III
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Canada’s prosperity has relied too heavily on the here and now of deficit spending, booming real estate and debt-financed household consumption. We must instead redirect investment to the wealth and well-being of the future, particularly our ability to invent and innovate, generate world-leading technologies and firms and ultimately capture global markets. The invention and adoption of new products, services and processes must be the foundation of rising productivity and long-term prosperity.
Date: Wednesday December 22, 2021
Our Honourees: Celebrating 150 Years of Canadians at Home and Abroad
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On April 20, the Public Policy Forum is honouring extraordinary leaders who connect Canada to the world and the world to us. Find out more about our seven honourees: their...
Date: Monday April 17, 2017
Canada as an Agri-Food Powerhouse
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...we assess all relevant policies. Strengthening Canada’s competitiveness in global food production could drive economic growth for decades to come. Those within the food system [1] have long recognized both...
Date: Thursday April 20, 2017
Groups from Across Canada Join Initiative to Get Climate and Energy Policy Working Together
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The Energy Future Forum (EFF), a new pan-Canadian initiative to develop policy answers that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen the economy, was officially launched on Dec. 16 at a meeting in Toronto. It's an "unprecedented effort to find common cause in addressing Canada’s climate and energy challenges,” said PPF's Edward Greenspon.
Date: Monday December 16, 2019
Tareq Hadhad: Adapt your product to the Canadian market
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The CEO of Peace by Chocolate is on a mission to spread hope—and to be a major player in Canada’s candy market
Date: Monday July 22, 2019
On the Edge of Affordability: Increasing access to affordable housing for low-to-moderate income renters in Canada
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This paper examines how policy could help low-to-moderate income earners living in urban areas across Canada to access affordable rental housing. This would help them move from financial and psychological anguish to fully participating and thriving in society.
Date: Thursday September 15, 2022
THEMES & THOUGHTS | Keys to success in a slow-growing, fast-changing world
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At the Canada Growth Summit, business and government leaders identify innovation, investment, infrastructure, immigration — and inclusion—as keys to success. Tom Jenkins sets up the day and later summarizes it...
Date: Thursday October 13, 2016
Uncertain Boundaries, Untapped Potential: Challenges and Opportunities for Canada’s Arctic Sovereignty
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Over the last two decades, global interest in the Arctic has grown exponentially. Canada can either be a leader in defining its northern sovereignty and development or have its roles and responsibilities determined for it by global actors already active in the region.
Date: Tuesday July 9, 2019
Growth Summit II: Five Takeaways
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...only bring brains and skills to Canada — and should be fast-tracked to citizenship, the school’s dean says — they also benefit Canada when they return home and start up...
Date: Sunday April 23, 2017
Retirement Security for Everyone: Enhancing Canada’s Pension System
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...Security and Guaranteed Income Supplement. Canada’s Public Policy Forum, in partnership with Sun Life Financial and Morneau Shepell launched the Pension Reform in Canada project in 2014 to find policy...
Date: Tuesday February 3, 2015