Search Results for: Economy
Remote Work – The Good, The Bad and The Unjust
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According to Statistics Canada, nearly 5 million workers shifted to remote work by the end of March 2020. In her first blog post for the Skills for the Post-Pandemic World project, Anjum Sultana discusses what the 'new normal' looks like for her and many workers like her all across the country, and explores the challenges that organizations, individuals, and policy-makers face with the work-from-home transition.
Date: Thursday June 25, 2020
Sustainable Finance Roundtable Series Summary
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How can Canada align financial policies and practices to climate change and sustainable development goals? This report summarizes five roundtables hosted by PPF and the Ivey Foundation with experts across Canada.
Date: Thursday January 31, 2019
Small and Medium-sized Employers (SMEs): Skills Gaps and Future Skills
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Canada’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) account for more than 90% of private-sector jobs in Canada. To be competitive in today’s market, they need the right people with the right skills, yet they are disproportionately threatened by labour shortages and skills gaps - a situation made worse by COVID-19. Unlike large corporations, SMEs possess limited resources, making it exponentially more challenging to support these human resources needs. There is a dire need for innovative research & solutions.
Date: Thursday October 15, 2020
Atlantic Newsletter #2: What we can learn from refugees’ success in Atlantic Canada
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In this second edition of our Atlantic Immigration & Revitalization Newsletter, PPF research associate Kelly Toughill talks to leaders and refugees across Atlantic Canada to understand what we can learn from their higher retention rates and overall success
Date: Monday March 4, 2019
Leading Innovation – Insights from Canadian Regions
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...– business spending on R&D, business productivity, ICT and machinery and equipment intensity – Canada is actually falling behind. Set against a rapidly changing global economy, and rising economies in...
Date: Monday March 12, 2012
EI Failed So We Made CERB: Now What Should We Learn?
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When COVID-19 lockdowns came, Canada’s employment insurance system failed to cover enough of the Canadian workforce that was affected and failed administratively to keep up with the surge in applications for benefits. This new report by Jennifer Robson proposes ideas for policy reform and shows why Canadians need wage insurance in the first place.
Date: Thursday August 13, 2020
The Belonging Advantage
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...a pre-pandemic population drain.[8] How much of this is due to people chasing quality of life and how much is due to a resurgent economy in the region is difficult...
Date: Monday December 11, 2023
One-on-One: Perry Bellegarde
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...leaders that “closing this gap is really in the best interests of Canada.” “Canada’s economy is based on land” Bellegarde tied economic development to Indigenous property, saying “from an Indigenous...
Date: Wednesday October 19, 2016
Diversification not Dependence: A Made-in-Canada China Strategy
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Canada can truly diversify its trade and break its dependence on a single partner by pursuing a strategy built on sectoral trade agreements with China.
Date: Thursday October 11, 2018
John Risley – 2023 Testimonial Dinner Award Honouree
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John Risley: "We wanted someone who would be a good steward for the business. And that led us very quickly to First Nations"
Date: Thursday January 26, 2023
For Acadians, newcomers are economic saviours but linguistic threats
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The Acadian shore of Nova Scotia is one of many rural areas of Atlantic Canada betting its future on immigration. But even French-speaking newcomers aren’t a solution to preserving the area’s Francophone heart.
Date: Thursday June 6, 2019
Securing Canada’s cyberspace
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...the Internet offer relatively low-cost options for improving services and connecting with end-users. A 2013 report by Cisco projected that the Internet of Everything (IoE) economy is set to create...
Date: Monday February 6, 2017
Canada and the OECD: 50 years of converging interests
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...committed to democracy and the market economy in order to provide an open forum and source of expertise to support economic growth and enhanced co-operation. For 50 years Canada has...
Date: Monday December 5, 2011
Skills at Speed: Why Canada’s Public Service Should Grow Its Interchange Program to Build Skills and Networks
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The public sector should expand its interchange program with the private sector in order to diversify its employees’ networks and skill sets and, in so doing, help the public service face employment challenges and disruptive technologies.
Date: Tuesday January 22, 2019
Fault Lines and Common Ground
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What divides urban and rural voters? What unites them? In this second report on the Urban-Rural divide in Canada, Sean Speer and his team take a closer look at the Canadian Election Study and find that urban and rural Canadians have divergent opinions on many key issues, but they also agree to a large extent on many others. As populism grows across the western world, policymakers in Canada need to understand the implications.
Date: Wednesday February 3, 2021