Search Results for: Atlantic Canada
Rebuilding Canada Demands Confronting Uncertainty
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Our institutions must build uncertainty into policy-making and program design. This “uncertainty screen” will help ensure a vision of the future that reflects today’s uniquely complex environment.
Date: Friday October 30, 2020
How to Have it All: LNG, a green economy and reconciliation
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Federal and provincial governments, Indigenous communities and industry can leverage LNG development for a clean energy future. Here’s how
Date: Wednesday January 24, 2024
The Deep, Blue Sink
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...in Atlantic Canada, predicting marine conditions and providing real-time location of endangered North Atlantic right whales for Transport Canada and the Fisheries Department. Now, OFI is looking at the agreement...
Date: Tuesday October 11, 2022
Toward ‘eyes-open’ engagement with China
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Members of the Public Policy Forum’s Canada-China forum seek a balanced approach to engagement with China that is economically beneficial and politically acceptable to Canadians
Date: Tuesday June 20, 2017
Primary Care for Everyone
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...neighbourhood is available to every child in Canada. It should aim to improve the health of everyone in Canada, just as public schools aim to effectively educate every child. Team-based...
Date: Wednesday March 29, 2023
Report 6: Three Areas in Which Pandemic Management Could Have Been Better
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Members of Canada’s political class should on balance receive at least a passing grade for their management of the pandemic, and Canadians should be both proud and worried about policymakers’ performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. The three areas in which they could have done better include: keeping schools open, using technology to combat the pandemic, and prioritizing vaccine targeting.
Date: Tuesday July 27, 2021
A New North Star II Revisited
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Six months after the release of New North Star II, the case for a mission-driven economic strategy is even more relevant. The pandemic has highlighted the need for a new industrial strategy to cultivate domestic innovations and technologies in Canada's national interests and authors Robert Asselin and Sean Speer revisit their analysis and recommendations and find a compelling model in the US’s DARPA model.
Date: Thursday September 17, 2020
Immigration and the Success of Canada’s Post-Pandemic Economy
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Immigration is an important part of Canada’s economic growth – especially in terms of sustaining the labour market. And although Canada welcomes many immigrants on our shores, we aren't creating an employment environment where they can use their skills and credentials to their fullest potential. This fact has never been more clear, with immigrants disproportionately impacted by a decimated hospitality and service sectors due to recurring pandemic lockdowns. There are several steps Canada needs to take to fix this problem, and doing so will benefit not just immigrants but Canada's economy as well.
Date: Wednesday May 26, 2021
PPF conference in Fredericton focuses on immigration; Atlantic Dinner features first Frank McKenna Awards
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...Edward Greenspon. “What Atlantic Canada is grappling with today is what the rest of Canada will need to confront tomorrow.” Speakers also include Marta Morgan, Deputy Minister of Immigration, Refugees...
Date: Monday March 19, 2018
Go Big, or Go Home? Refocusing Entrepreneurship for Productive & Inclusive Growth
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Entrepreneurship has been called the backbone of the economy. Despite the popularity of hoodie-wearing CEOs and global tech innovations, broad-based entrepreneurship that fuels local productivity and helps solve real-world problems has declined across developed nations. Canada is no exception. COVID-19 has added to the challenge. As Canada recovers, how do we get entrepreneurship back on track?
Date: Wednesday March 17, 2021
Welcome, reimagined
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...the percentage almost doubled, according to Fang’s research about attitudes towards immigration in Atlantic Canada. Still, Fang said the retention rate for refugees in the province has traditionally been very...
Date: Tuesday February 21, 2023
Canada’s China puzzle: We need a national discussion
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...about how medium-sized enterprises can be helped to penetrate the Chinese market and the amazing success of Atlantic Canada’s fish-processing industry in exporting to China. We talked about unambiguous common...
Date: Thursday June 29, 2017
The Opportunity for Indigenous Infrastructure
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Well-planned, reliable infrastructure is essential to the well-being of all communities. Despite major policy challenges, Indigenous people, companies and governments are closing the infrastructure gap by advancing successful equity infrastructure projects across the country. Canada should follow these examples.
Date: Thursday September 3, 2020
COVID-19 and Canada’s Border
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With COVID-19 raging out of control in the U.S., the last thing most Canadians want to contemplate is more entrants from abroad. But it could be a year before a vaccine arrives and much longer until it is administered globally. If COVID has taught us anything it is that, this time, we have to be ahead of the curve on border control.
Date: Tuesday July 28, 2020
Competency Frameworks and Canada’s Essential Skills
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Whether it's new technology or global events driving the pace of change, Canadians are being asked to adapt in the workplace. Canada needs an essential skill framework that includes and looks beyond simple literacy and numeracy. It needs to include the 'soft skills' that industry leaders say are key to success and other essential skills that will help Canadians adapt, no matter what comes their way. Each needs to be measured and tracked to ensure Canadians remain globally competitive, and this paper argues that renewing Canada’s Essential Skills framework is the place to start.
Date: Friday November 13, 2020