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Public Interest and Media Infrastructures
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Today’s media systems include the powerful social media companies that watch, commodify, and manipulate us as they buy and sell our data. Mike Ananny urges a more sophisticated understanding of the privately controlled infrastructures where important decisions are made shaping behaviours, beliefs and online news. These might look like boring, messy, technical places where only engineers work, but regulators need to grasp their complexities and tackle the prevailing secrecy to better protect the public interest.
Date: Tuesday September 1, 2020
Our Honourees: Celebrating 150 Years of Canadians at Home and Abroad
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...and Communities between July 2009 and November 2012 and as Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Agri Food Canada from March 2007 to June 2009. Mrs. Baltacıoğlu graduated from Carleton University’s...
Date: Monday April 17, 2017
How Canada and Smiths Falls are leading the new global cannabis game
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Participants of PPF and Telfer Executive Programs’ new Public Policy Leadership Program (PPLP) stopped in Smiths Falls for their Bright Spots visit to understand how the legalization of cannabis affects stakeholders at the local level and then heard from their own colleagues on how this complex policy came into being.
Date: Friday June 14, 2019
Searching for Innovation? Look North!
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A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada is looking for paths forward to build back better. After a year of invaluable lessons learned, what do we know? What do we want to strengthen? What are we willing to change? What are the assets and building blocks for a stronger future?
Date: Tuesday March 30, 2021
October 6th, 2014 – At the Vanguard of Canadian Innovation: A Compilation of Co-op Case Studies
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...the co-op model in Canada and provides key lessons for advancing a culture of innovation across sectors. Rather than an exhaustive compilation of case studies, the intention is to present...
Date: Sunday October 6, 2013
The Dis-United States
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Today's bi-lateral Canada-U.S. relationship finds itself being tested like never before. There have been clear signals of a return to normal, but is that a realistic expectation in the wake of the Trump presidency and the deep divisions evident in U.S. society? The Public Policy Forum in partnership with Global Affairs Canada, assembled a roundtable of Canadian and American foreign-policy experts and several points of consensus emerged.
Date: Wednesday April 21, 2021
Workplace Innovation in Canada’s Public Service: How Collaborative Approaches, Dynamic Workspaces, and Enabling Technology Can Deliver Greater Value to Canadians
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...must focus on driving efficiencies and delivering value. The Public Policy Forum believes that it is essential to build and foster a culture of innovation in the workplace in order...
Date: Wednesday July 6, 2011
Vass Bednar
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...also the co-host of “Detangled,” a weekly pop-culture and public policy radio show and podcast that ran from 2016-2018. She currently writes a newsletter about Canadian startups and public policy...
Date: Saturday April 29, 2017
Indigenous Child Care Workforce Development Snapshot
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...(Hajizadeh et al., 2018), and to be removed from their homes, cultures, and communities by the contemporary child welfare system (Tait et al., 2013).[30] The report also concluded funding for...
Date: Friday May 6, 2022
How Atlantic Canada businesses keep their foreign workers
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Whether they wear steel-toed boots or ballet slippers, workers from abroad are in high demand in Atlantic Canada. As Kelly Toughill found, successful companies have learned that keeping recruits happy requires more than a paycheque
Date: Wednesday March 21, 2018
Pandemic Learning: Paid Micro-Training Opportunities for Post-Pandemic Recovery
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Broad, rapid government support received widespread support in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on their public opinion research, Peter Loewen and Blake Lee-Whiting argue that Canadians, especially those who lost income or jobs during the pandemic, would be eager to receive government-assisted skills training as part of that support.
Date: Monday June 28, 2021
Opinion: Provinces should be able to nominate siblings and cousins of newcomers
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Our immigration system pits family reunification against Canada’s economic needs. That’s short-sighted and counterproductive, argues Kelly Toughill
Date: Monday March 4, 2019
Premier Jason Kenney at the 2019 Peter Lougheed Awards Dinner
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On Nov. 13 in Calgary, Premier of Alberta Jason Kenney explored three forms of reconciliation for Alberta's provincial government: with Alberta’s Indigenous people, of energy growth and environmental stewardship, and of the provincial and federal fields within Canadian Confederation.
Date: Thursday November 21, 2019
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
Wadih Fares: Save money and look for an empty niche
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Nova Scotia’s premier developer feels an obligation to talk about why he came to Halifax from Lebanon, why he stayed, and why immigration is good for Canada
Date: Monday July 22, 2019