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The Values Proposition: Building a Stronger Canada through Values-Based Sport
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This report summarizes what we heard during five roundtables held through spring 2018 and which explored actions and policies aimed at ensuring values-based sport is an intentional and fundamental part of the Canadian sport system, from playground to podium.
Date: Wednesday August 8, 2018
Open policy-making in a digital age: Summary report
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The concept of ‘open policy making’ represents a shift away from traditional policy-making toward a process that is accessible and transparent to more Canadians, and which incorporates their voices and insights. How is this different in the digital age?
Date: Wednesday April 12, 2017
Understanding the Nature and Experience of Gig Work in Canada
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Gig work & gig workers are on the rise, fuelled by technology that makes this form of work more easily accessible. What does this mean for Canada’s labour market and how should we respond? Understanding how workers enter, navigate and experience the gig economy is a critical component to better understanding what policies are required to best protect and support them. This report explores what we know, and what we need to know, about the nature of Canada’s gig economy and the experiences of its workers.
Date: Tuesday June 30, 2020
Changes to Atlantic Immigration Pilot praised, but more are needed
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Revealing the list of employers authorized to bring immigrants to Canada through the Atlantic Immigration Pilot is an important first step in combating immigration fraud.
Date: Tuesday December 11, 2018
Mind the Gaps: Quantifying the Decline of News Coverage in Canada
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In our study of 20 small and mid-sized Canadian communities, the number and depth of newspaper articles about civic affairs declined sharply between 2008 and 2017, leaving citizens less informed about their democratic institutions.
Date: Tuesday September 25, 2018
Report Preview: Do Canadians’ fears about automation push them to populism?
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In an upcoming report for PPF’s Brave New Work project, Peter Loewen and Benjamin Allen Stevens find a correlation between Canadians’ fear of job losses from automation and populist and nativist views—but also that they favour traditional government policy approaches to job disruption, such as retraining, more than radical measures such as reducing immigration.
Date: Tuesday June 25, 2019
Sunil Johal
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Sunil Johal is Policy Director at the University of Toronto’s Mowat Centre. He is frequently invited to advise governments and international organizations about disruptive technologies and regulatory and policy issues. In February 2019, he was named Chair of the Expert Panel on Modern Labour Standards by the federal Minister of Labour. PPF is proud to welcome him as a Fellow.
Date: Sunday December 11, 2016
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
Permanently Impermanent: Migrant agricultural workers in Canada
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Action Canada Task Force hears from workers, administrators and farmers that existing programs don't work quite right and they need to for Canada's agricultural sector to thrive.
Date: Thursday March 7, 2019
Canada-China Session 1: Setting the stage, public opinion trends, approaches to trade
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Recap of the first meeting of PPF's Canada-China Forum includes presentations on public opinion by Bruce Anderson of Abacus Data and sectoral trade by Wendy Dobson of University of Toronto
Date: Tuesday July 25, 2017
The internet is transforming the world, but not for everybody
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...access and skills to benefit from digital technologies in their lives. ACCESS: Availability, Affordability, Inclusive design, Public access. ADOPTION: Uptake and relevance, Digital literacy, Safety and privacy. APPLICATION: Education, Employment,...
Date: Friday October 13, 2017
A Place-Based Lens to the Future Of Work in Canada
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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
Opinion: As revenue declines and big tech steps in, there are three options to help journalism in Canada
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Facebook and Google have signed secret deals with dozens of desperate publishers to provide financial and other supports.
Date: Wednesday August 11, 2021
The Next-Level Border: Advancing Technology & Expanding Trade
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This report summarizes what was heard at two roundtables on how to enhance the Canada-U.S. border with tech to facilitate trade.
Date: Monday July 30, 2018
Mill town’s struggle reveals rural areas’ unique immigration challenges
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A small influx of foreign workers has sparked sharp reactions in Chipman, New Brunswick. Many see the newcomers as potential saviours of a town headed toward extinction. Others see them as competitors for local jobs. In between, a handful of immigrant families are trying to figure out how to feel at home. The challenges of immigration in small communities are different than in cities, both for newcomers and for local residents. Solving them may be key to the future prosperity of rural Atlantic Canada.
Date: Thursday June 6, 2019