Search Results for: Employment
How do we build an inclusive future of work?
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Emerging leaders from the Banff Forum gathered to discuss: Who is missing from Canadians' dialogue about our brave new world of work? They came up with a clear set of guiding principles and recommendations for policymakers.
Date: Friday May 3, 2019
Thinking Twice About Technology and the Future of Work
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Technology is being used to change power balances in workplaces and to perpetuate long-standing precarious employment relationships, Jim Stanford argues. But the exploitative practices of the gig economy reflect deliberate choices, rather than the inevitable onward march of technology, and creating better jobs also lies within our power.
Date: Wednesday January 22, 2020
Opinion: The danger of over-selling the Canadian dream to international students
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Canada is becoming dependent on the economic stimulus of international students, writes KELLY TOUGHILL, but are we promising more than we can deliver? Many international students will face difficulties adjusting to Canadian academic systems, finding work, making friends and securing permanent resident status.
Date: Monday April 15, 2019
Connecting Communities Initiative
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...service providers within Ontario’s employment training system on three key tasks: Getting employers more engaged in the employment process; Providing new forms of personal guidance for social-assistance clients through peer...
Date: Wednesday March 25, 2015
Using Foresight to Explore the Future of Work
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What happens when university students imagine how they would learn if universities and colleges no longer existed? As part of PPF’s Brave New Work project, we invited students from the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs at Carleton University to do a foresight exercise on the future of learning, skills and access. They had some fascinating ideas.
Date: Monday April 1, 2019
Skills, Training and Lifelong Learning
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Training for working Canadians is scarce, and the people who most need it are the least able to get it. As global competition and technological change increase, Canada needs to create effective and inclusive systems of training, which are essential for innovation, growth, employment and good incomes. In this report, Daniel Munro looks at Canada's strengths and weaknesses, training models from around the world, and suggests improvements to lifelong learning systems.
Date: Friday March 29, 2019
What the Saskatchewan Roughriders Can Teach Canadian Journalism
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Many different approaches to support journalism, locally and beyond, have emerged in recent years in the wake of the sharp decline of traditional industry players. Public policy will play a crucial role in shaping the rules for ownership innovation and protected space for Canadian journalism.
Date: Tuesday September 25, 2018
Improving Public Services: A Strategic Approach to Digital Infrastructure
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By shifting its policies on technology procurement and embracing a more collaborative development approach with Canadian innovators; government could also enable Canada’s technology sector to compete more successfully in global markets.
Date: Thursday August 27, 2020
An Investment that Works for Child Care
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In June 2022, Public Policy Forum outlined how to strengthen the workforce in the early learning and childcare sector through better recruitment, retention and recognition. This week, federal and provincial ministers responsible for early childhood learning answered that call.
Date: Wednesday September 14, 2022
Job Polarization in Canada
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Job polarization is one of several trends — including automation, offshoring and the growing importance of the gig-economy — that were already of general interest prior to the onset of the pandemic, but which have been pushed even further into the centre of public policy discussions by the arrival of COVID-19. As Canadian policymakers consider how to build back the economy after the pandemic, addressing the problems created by job polarization needs to figure prominently in their priorities.
Date: Thursday April 15, 2021
Building Inclusive Workplaces
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A one-size-fits-all approach to pandemic recovery will not work. Programs tailored to the specific needs of specific groups will be important for a strong recovery, as will equitable access to critical supports, such as the infrastructure needed to overcome the digital divide. Businesses, governments and employees must all commit to reskilling — particularly when it comes to those from diverse groups who face barriers and bias — to develop an effective and inclusive skills and employment ecosystem that leaves no one behind.
Date: Wednesday May 19, 2021
New Working Arrangements
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The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a rapid rise in the number of Canadians who are teleworking. While for many the transition has been positive, and a significant number of workers and employers indicate an interest in continuing teleworking arrangements post-pandemic, there are inequalities in access and ability to telework. As teleworking will likely continue for many workers post-pandemic, taking steps to resolve these inequalities will be an important part of Canada’s economic recovery, as will ensuring that all Canadians are able to access the skills and training they need to succeed in this new working arrangement.
Date: Wednesday May 12, 2021
Keeping international students in Atlantic Canada: EduNova’s big experiment
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Why don’t a quality education, strong language skills and an open work permit guarantee success in Atlantic Canada? Fewer international graduates stay in this region after graduation than any other. Students and their advocates tell KELLY TOUGHILL what can be done to counter the trend.
Date: Monday April 15, 2019
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
Inclusive Futures: Indigenous engagement in Canada’s workforce
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This report examines four interlinked factors that contribute to Indigenous inclusion in the labour force and which are incorporated into a suggested framework for developing a tool to measure how inclusive an organization’s workplace is.
Date: Thursday March 12, 2020