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Governance in the Digital Age
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The digital transformation that governments are seeking and citizens are expecting is more than just 'a challenge,' says PPF's Prime Ministers of Canada Fellow Kent Aitken in this new report. After conducting almost 300 interviews over the course of a year, he concludes that governments are currently not set up for the complexities of the digital age and suggests four areas that they need to fundamentally change.
Date: Wednesday September 26, 2018
What Needs to Change in a Changing Climate: Managing Risk Requires Decisive Policy and Innovative Technology
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Innovative policy, new technology, faster adaptation and ways to build public support are all needed to manage climate-change risks, which will be critically important to Canada for decades to come.
Date: Thursday January 17, 2019
It’s not a problem we need to solve, it’s really about good management
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As the world of work continuously shifts, modernizes and innovates, what moves can be made to get and stay ahead when it comes to making work more accessible? PPF co-hosted The Future of Accessible Work panel discussion with Microsoft Canada featuring national and international accessibility leaders & advocates. This speaker series engaged PPF members to learn about accessibility and inclusion straight from the experts. To keep the conversation going and share our lessons learned, we have encapsulated five significant takeaways from the discussion.
Date: Wednesday March 11, 2020
Mowat NFP: Final Year Reports
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In 2012, Mowat established a research hub to provide evidence-based research and analysis on systemic issues facing the non-profit sector in Canada. In its final year of operation (2019-2020), Mowat NFP focused its research on implementing the recommendations of the Special Senate Committee on the Charitable Sector and exploring the future of finance and funding in the sector.
Date: Wednesday February 12, 2020
Building Inclusive Workplaces
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A one-size-fits-all approach to pandemic recovery will not work. Programs tailored to the specific needs of specific groups will be important for a strong recovery, as will equitable access to critical supports, such as the infrastructure needed to overcome the digital divide. Businesses, governments and employees must all commit to reskilling — particularly when it comes to those from diverse groups who face barriers and bias — to develop an effective and inclusive skills and employment ecosystem that leaves no one behind.
Date: Wednesday May 19, 2021
Skills for the Post-Pandemic World
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How can we transform Canada’s skills policy landscape to address new trends in how we live, work, learn and socialize in the post-pandemic world? Developed in partnership with Diversity Institute and the Future Skills Centre, and supported by Microsoft, this Scoping Report represents the first phase of a new project designed to tackle these questions. In this initial scoping report, we take stock, outline the key skills issues created and exacerbated by the pandemic, and identify eight areas for research that will be explored in depth in Phase 2 of the project.
Date: Friday December 11, 2020
DDP Research Memo #4: Talking Past Each Other on Immigration
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This report examines Canadians' opinions on immigration and their populist and nativist tendencies. It also surveys election candidates' use of social media across platforms.
Date: Thursday September 26, 2019
Don Wright on why our kids will struggle to have a higher living standard than us: Hub Dialogue
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...major policy paper entitled, Rhetoric vs. Results: Shaping Policy to Benefit Canada’s Middle Class, which essentially argues that Canada’s overall policy framework for the past 30 years or so has...
Date: Thursday September 2, 2021
Conference Recap: PPF Atlantic Summit
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The summit, which attracted hundreds from around Atlantic Canada, kicked off PPF’s three-year policy research project on Atlantic revitalization, with a special focus on newcomer retention.
Date: Wednesday March 28, 2018
Perceptions and Polarization
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Political polarization is growing across the globe. In this first report on the urban-rural divide in Canada, Sean Speer teams up with Peter Loewen and the University of Toronto’s Policy, Elections and Representation Lab (PEARL) to explore the theory that a “perception gap” exists between those who live in cities, the suburbs and rural communities. How do Canadians' distorted beliefs of one another’s circumstances fuel polarization?
Date: Tuesday February 2, 2021
Small Island, Big Impact
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PEI’s BioAlliance took a team approach to solving its workforce challenge, and here’s what the rest of Canada can learn. The fast-growing biosciences sector in Canada’s smallest province is making...
Date: Wednesday September 7, 2022
Millennial Money: Financial Independence and Well-Being for the Next Generation
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Millennials are as financially knowledgeable as previous generations and are doing OK when it comes to financial well-being, but they face challenges such as housing affordability and student debt repayments that innovative policy should address.
Date: Wednesday November 28, 2018
Innovation Collaboration with Europe: A Transatlantic Symposium
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...Fitzgibbons, Acting Associate Vice-President, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Big and open data partnerships: facilitated by Kevin Tuer, Managing Director at Open Data Exchange, Communitech (Canada) and...
Date: Thursday June 25, 2015
Announcing our 2019 Peter Lougheed Award honourees
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On Nov. 13, join us at our Western Dinner in Calgary to honour Elizabeth Cannon, Stockwell Day, Dawn Farrell & Dave Mowat. Tickets are on sale now.
Date: Monday June 24, 2019
AUDIO | Edward Greenspon talks China with Danielle Smith
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...“I think we need to know what our relationship is with China. What is in Canada’s interests?” Greenspon said. “Canada’s economy only grows if it trades, and Asia is the...
Date: Thursday July 6, 2017