Search Results for: Economy
DDP Research Memo #2: The Climate Change Conundrum
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This is the second of a series of DDP Research Memos that map the media ecosystem in the run-up to and during Canada's October 2019 federal election. It focuses on Canadians' perceptions of what is shaping up to be a key election issue: the environment, and especially climate change.
Date: Thursday August 29, 2019
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
Paycheque to Paycheque: Coping with Income Volatility as Work Changes
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What can we do about workers living paycheque to paycheque, with the rise of the gig economy and future changes to work? Emerging leaders from the Banff Forum gathered and came up with a holistic set of policy measures for improving the well-being of workers and to help prevent economic marginalization as work changes.
Date: Monday September 23, 2019
Understanding the Future of Skills: Trends and Global Policy Responses
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In our first Skills Next report, we look at top research and skills training programs that are succeeding internationally, and highlight for Canadian policymakers key features driving success. Authors Sunil Johal and Michael Urban distill key lessons for Canada to ensure workers are equipped with the skills they need to thrive in tomorrow’s economy, whatever shape it takes.
Date: Monday January 20, 2020
Facilitating the Future of Work Through a Modernized EI System
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Gaps in Canada’s Employment Insurance program are already leaving too many workers behind as gig work, part-time jobs and self-employment grow. EI needs to be modernized now to support Canadians as they transition to an economy and labour market disrupted by technology and automation.
Date: Wednesday May 1, 2019
Bridging the Digital Skills Gap: Alternative Pathways
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Digital skills and digital careers are part of every industry’s future. Yet employers say they can't find workers with the information and communication technology (ICT) skills they need. In this report, Shortt, Robson and Sabat explain how Canada doesn't really have system for figuring out where digital technology jobs end and regular jobs begin – and explore how a shared definitions of digital skills and careers will be the gateway for policymakers and employers to fill any gaps.
Date: Thursday January 23, 2020
Canada Next: Collected reports and summaries
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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
Brave New Work Newsletter #1
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In this first edition of our Brave New Work Newsletter: A new report on the strengths and weaknesses of Canada's training systems, what Canada’s associations see trending in the future of work, and students imagine how Canadians would learn if universities and colleges no longer existed.
Date: Monday April 1, 2019
Options for a Canada-China FTA Negotiation Strategy
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...affecting investment flows. But the devil is in the details. A Canada-China FTA would be only the fourth such agreement made by the Chinese with a developed economy. In prolonged...
Date: Tuesday June 20, 2017
The People Imperative: Strategies to Grow Population and Prosperity in Atlantic Canada
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Atlantic Canada is taking action to rebuild its aging and slow-growing population: The region needs to attract - and keep - more newcomers.
Date: Sunday March 18, 2018
Benefit not Burden: Older workers and the future of work in Canada
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This report is about the future of work and how building an inclusive, resilient economic future requires a critical look at how we understand and value older workers.
Date: Thursday March 12, 2020
Move over Oscars, we’re announcing our 2019 policy stars
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We're pleased to announce all five of our honourees for our 2019 Testimonial Dinner honourees, for their dedication to public service and strengthening our democracy and its institutions.
Date: Thursday January 31, 2019
The Urgent Case for a Supply Rebuild
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...to increase the supply of things, ideas and people, too — the programmers, scientists, welders, teachers, nurses and countless others on whose backs and brains a modern economy thrives. The...
Date: Tuesday November 1, 2022
Developing Canada’s Digital-Ready Public Service
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Canada’s public service has charted an ambitious information management and technology strategy, and talent is one of its pillars. Finding innovative approaches to attracting, developing, and retaining the best and brightest requires rethinking many traditional assumptions and harnessing new approaches. What can be done to attract a skilled and diverse workforce?
Date: Friday March 8, 2019
Gitane De Silva
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...APEC Women and the Economy Summit where she worked on women in leadership and women’s economic empowerment. Gitane holds a BA in International Relations from the University of British Columbia...
Date: Friday January 1, 2016