Search Results for: Disruption

Getting ahead of disruption is key to our future: An introduction to Canada Next

Decision makers in all fields face intense challenges to keep up with geopolitical transformation, the sweeping innovations of the digital age, the impacts on work sparked by artificial intelligence, and the catastrophic effects of climate change. Edward Greenspon and Drew Fagan introduce the challenges that Canada Next addresses.

Date: Monday January 7, 2019


Canada’s economic future depends on critical choices in the face of disruption

...the face of widescale technological disruption: Closed nationalism, featuring increased inequality, social strife and job-destroying disruption; Supportive disruption, characterized by robust economic growth, rapid wealth accumulation and increased social supports...

Date: Tuesday April 25, 2017


Keeping Up With the Speed of Disruption

Back by popular demand, the Public Policy Forum’s professional development seminar series Keeping Up With the Speed of Disruption is being offered for a third time, with the first of four sessions taking place on December 7, 2018. The aim of this series is to equip the participants to better understand disruptive technologies, how they can be used to enhance government services and the ways they are challenging policy and governance approaches.

Date: Wednesday November 15, 2017


Surviving Disruption in the Shipbuilding Industry

Irving Shipbuilding Inc. found itself in the middle of a rapidly changing shipping industry, and had to adapt to the evolving requirements of talent and infrastructure. Their grow-at-home approach may be the one to adopt in other disrupted sectors too. Read this case study by Sherry Scully on managing transformation in a disrupted sector – all for PPF's Brave New Work project on the future of work.

Date: Thursday June 17, 2021


Keeping Up With the Speed of Disruption – Presentations

...– Open Engagement Span Nureva: Keeping Up With the Speed of Disruption_Spring 2018 (Excel – preferred format) Keeping Up With the Speed of Disruption_Spring 2018 (PDF- zoom in to view)...

Date: Friday April 27, 2018


China and Canada in an Era of Global Disruption

...Asia Concluding observation — — It’s all about stronger and more inclusive growth in the new global normal. In this changing world — — an era of disruption and uncertainty...

Date: Tuesday December 19, 2017


Managing Transformation in Disrupted Sectors

There are lessons to be learned from industries that have survived and thrived through disruption, as well as those that have failed to navigate industry transformation. We need to learn from the past while we look for innovative ways of working together to rebuild the economy. To achieve these goals, we need to plan for inevitable change as all sectors, no matter how resilient writes Lori Turnbull. With the right tools, workers, employers and sectors can fortify themselves in a new economy.

Date: Thursday June 17, 2021


A Place-Based Lens to the Future Of Work in Canada

An urban-rural scan of potential long-term effects of the future of work shows the negative effects of a displaced workforce will be felt disproportionately among rural residents, who make up the majority of high-risk employment sectors that will succumb to technology-induced disruption. Understanding how these changes could affect urban centres vs. rural areas is a crucial ingredient to long-term policymaking and key to creating an effective place-based policy agenda for Canada to manage those disruptions and keep an urban-rural economic divide that already exists from growing

Date: Thursday June 11, 2020


Canada Next: Collected reports and summaries

Get the whole Canada Next series in one document. Choose the complete collection of full reports, a collection of summaries only, or a recap of recommendations for provinces, territories and municipalities.

Date: Monday January 28, 2019


Work After COVID-19

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


Automation, AI and Anxiety: Policy Preferred, Populism Possible

Who is fearful of automation and what do they want politicians to do about it? This paper finds a correlation between Canadians’ fear of job losses from automation and populist and nativist views—but also that Canadians favour traditional government policy approaches to job disruption, such as retraining, more than radical measures such as reducing immigration.

Date: Thursday July 11, 2019


Peter Loewen

Peter Loewen is a Professor in the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is interested in how politicians can make better decisions, in how citizens can make better choices, and how governments can address the disruption of technology and harness its opportunities. PPF welcomes him as a Fellow.

Date: Tuesday October 11, 2016


Rebuilding Canada Demands Confronting Uncertainty

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


Five big things we learned at the Brave New Work Conference

The prospect of losing our jobs to automation may keep us up at night and change our politics, but there are other factors at play, too. Here are five key challenges and some smart policy responses that emerged at the inaugural Brave New Work Conference.

Date: Tuesday August 6, 2019


How to Mobilize Higher Education and Workforce Development for the Rapid Re-Employment of Canadians

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