Search Results for: Disruption
Do We Really Want to Make Canadians Poorer?
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...minimize overall costs and disruptions while reducing GHG emissions. Second, if public support for decarbonization is to be maintained over the multiple decades during which a grand decarbonization project will...
Date: Wednesday July 27, 2022
Fire and Ice: Arctic Responses to Climate Change and Lessons for the Rest of Canada
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The North is warming faster than any other place in Canada. The lessons being learned about mitigation in the North can help all of Canada adapt to a rapidly warming world.
Date: Tuesday July 9, 2019
A Hurry-up Offense for Energy Transition and Clean Growth Projects
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There was a lesson for Canada in what a German politician had to say about the gas market disruption in the months following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “We have...
Date: Wednesday March 27, 2024
The $100 Billion Difference
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...no way of doing nothing in the face of the climate emergency. The question is what course produces the best environmental outcome for Canadians while causing the least disruption possible...
Date: Thursday May 11, 2023
Four strategies governments can adopt to manage change in the digital age
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In 2017, the Public Policy Forum dedicated its annual Prime Ministers of Canada Fellowship to the idea of governance in the digital age. The goal was to explore and explain how the world is changing and how governments are responding. Kent Aitken won that Fellowship and wrote a report that practitioners can use as a resource as they contemplate the pressures of change on governance systems. Governance in the Digital Age is the result of a year of research, surveys and interviews with about 300 government practitioners and stakeholders in Canada and around the world.
Date: Monday October 1, 2018
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
Executive Summary: The North’s future is Canada’s future, too
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Is Canada squandering its Arctic advantage? This series of four experts' views on climate, resources, sovereignty and reconciliation show that the North's key issues are closely tied to Canada's strategic priorities
Date: Tuesday July 9, 2019
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
Emerging Stronger: Addressing the Skills Under-Utilization Challenge for the Future of Work in Canada
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How can Canada use its highly skilled workforce as we transition to a knowledge economy? In their new report, AJ Tibando and Arvind Gupta explore Palette Inc., a not-for-profit platform that was created to upskill diverse and non-traditional workers in an ICT sector biased against hiring them. It looks like the Palette model is working.
Date: Friday June 12, 2020
Frontiers and Borders: The Internet and the Amplification of Illiberalism
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"Truth is an inescapable foundation of the liberal order and is in a precarious state in today’s liberal democracy. Our ability to address difficult issues such as climate change or electoral integrity is compromised if truth and public opinion become confused.” Edward Greenspon’s recent essay examines liberalism’s complex state of flux in an age of internet dominance. Greenspon draws on his firsthand experiences as a journalist covering the ascent of liberalism in the late 1980s and early 1990s, using it as a jump-off point for considering the ongoing struggle between the frontiers of change and social progress versus the borders of insecurity and social stability.
Date: Wednesday July 21, 2021
Learning to Change: Worker Resilience and Adaptability
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What does it mean to be adaptable and resilient as a worker, in the face of radical changes to work? With a focus on Alberta, emerging leaders from the Banff Forum and the City of Edmonton discussed policy lessons and policy solutions to prepare individuals and employers for workforce change.
Date: Monday September 23, 2019
Ontario Digital Inclusion Summit – Summary Report
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PPF hosted Ontario's first Digital Inclusion Summit back in February. Now, the summary report is available with key takeaways from the event that sparked a larger conversation on making the internet work for all.
Date: Tuesday May 29, 2018
Frontiers and Borders:
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...such values as liberty and equality; change and tradition; disruption and order; reason and passion; individualism and community; and frontiers and borders. Liberalism without a political constituency simply is not...
Date: Friday June 18, 2021
PPF applauds new support for Canadian journalism
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The Public Policy Forum is pleased that the production of independent, original journalism for Canadians will be supported by new measures announced in the government’s fall economic statement.
Date: Wednesday November 21, 2018
Who’s threatening democracy? Tyrants, technology – and us
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Are we amusing ourselves to death while darker forces of disinformation undermine our democracy? By Edward Greenspon
Date: Tuesday May 1, 2018