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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 Mouse Sleeping Next to a Dragon: New Twitches and Grunts
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...to Canada. First, the Chinese government and linked individuals have been known to intimidate individuals and (particularly expat) communities in Canada. There have been allegations that the Chinese government has...
Date: Tuesday December 19, 2017
Connect to Compete: Enabling Entrepreneurship in the Digital Age
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COVID-19 has been a wake-up call for Canada’s entrepreneurial economy. This paper shows why some entrepreneurs have thrived while others are facing more barriers than ever.
Date: Thursday October 8, 2020
How ‘Get Updates on COVID-19’ Got Up and Going
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PPF's new series chronicles how public servants throughout Canada responded in real-time to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). First up: A new email notification service, Get Updates on COVID-19, turns traditional methods of government communications on its ear. How did it come to be in weeks, not months?
Date: Friday August 7, 2020
The Belonging Advantage
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...Statistics Canada says. https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/moncton-halifax-top-list-of-fastest-growing-urban-regions-statistics-canada-says-1.6226520#:~:text=Atlantic%20Canada%20led%20the%20way,released%20Wednesday%20by%20Statistics%20Canada. CTV News. ↑ Akbari, A. (Oct. 23, 2020). Immigration in Nova Scotia: Who Comes, Who Stays, Who Leaves and Why? https://www.smu.ca/webfiles/3StayersandLeaversSurveyReportFinalOctober23.pdf. Sobey School of Business and...
Date: Monday December 11, 2023
How to Mobilize Higher Education and Workforce Development for the Rapid Re-Employment of Canadians
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The COVID-19 crisis has derailed the careers of millions of Canadians. To support them, workforce leaders, and policy and decision makers need to mobilize education and training systems in some key ways – starting with robust labour market information and laying the foundation for a national system of lifelong learning.
Date: Thursday September 24, 2020
Catching the Wind
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The game-changing potential of offshore wind power in Atlantic Canada, combined with an ambitious vision to develop it as an urgent national project, could turn the region into an energy superpower.
Date: Friday October 13, 2023
Averting a Double-whammy
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The COVID-19 pandemic has created a fiscal conundrum for governments: How can they dig themselves out of debt in a manner that protects the financial futures of younger generations? Governments should opt for a mix of fiscal strategies that favour smart tax increases.
Date: Thursday September 10, 2020
We Want Real Partnership
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In April 2020, the Energy Future Forum convened a plenary session on the critical importance of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and full Indigenous participation and ownership in Canada’s energy development. The following is a blended transcript edited for clarity and conciseness of Indigenous economic leaders Alicia Dubois, Tabatha Bull, Mark Podlasly, J.P. Gladu and Kim Baird. These leaders spoke about their vision for economic reconciliation, the challenge of access to capital and the opportunity UNDRIP presents to catalyze economic development by making real partnership a prerequisite for any project to move forward in Canada.
Date: Friday July 16, 2021
How to Restore the Labour Market Balance: Transcript
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...has been pulling down the growth of Canada’s labour force in recent years.8 Immigration has typically helped Canada’s labour force grow. But the pandemic disrupted immigration flows. Borders closed, and...
Date: Thursday November 17, 2022
Work After COVID-19
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Rebuilding the economy will require a sustained, thoughtful approach. Key to that approach will be improving both the quantity and quality of work to repair fractures and avoid disruption from future waves of infection.
Date: Tuesday July 21, 2020
Speer: Is Canadian politics shaped by “the revenge of places that don’t matter”?
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The economic gap between urban and rural places in Canada is significant and we cannot afford to let distressed communities come to the view that they don’t matter. PPF’s Prime Ministers of Canada fellow Sean Speer stresses the importance of cultivating a shared understanding of urban and rural cultures, and will travel across the nation in order to formulate a policy agenda that can bridge the urban-rural divide.
Date: Saturday October 12, 2019
Focus on Fundamentals: A Road Map to Recovery
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The pandemic is a financial crisis like none in recent years and governments now face the challenge of promoting economic growth and investment and getting people back to work, while also protecting the vulnerable and addressing ballooning debt and deficits. It’s time to use a scalpel, rather than a sledgehammer, to reduce spending by reconsidering the size and compensation levels in the public sector, reviewing the defined benefit pension programs and restructuring where possible.
Date: Monday October 19, 2020
Public Service Innovation and Leadership During COVID-19: What Can We Learn?
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...right people on a common cause. Statistics Canada’s engagement with the private sector to access data, and the Global Affairs Canada outreach to airlines as partners in the repatriation, speak...
Date: Thursday June 3, 2021
Pulling up roots: Bhutanese exodus from Halifax offers clues to why newcomers stay or go
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The disappearance of Bhutanese from Halifax is discouraging to those who believe the future of Atlantic Canada is tied to increased immigration, but it is also an opportunity to look at the factors that encourage newcomers to take root – and the factors that lead them away.
Date: Wednesday December 12, 2018