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Canada’s Associations See What’s Trending in the Future of Work
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From new ways of approaching lifelong learning to recognizing that technology is not the only driver of workplace change, representatives of Canadian associations shared their perspectives on the changing nature of work and how workers and employers are affected.
Date: Monday April 1, 2019
Prince Edward Island Child Care Workforce Development Snapshot
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...school entry). The one-time $5,000 grant is an incentive for level three educators who have left the sector and are willing to return and commit to a two-year employment contract...
Date: Tuesday May 17, 2022
Discussion paper: Open policy making in a digital age
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...Vancouver social enterprise launched a community-centric approach to alleviating unemployment, and subsequently became an alternative to the services provided by local government. All three businesses were created to fill gaps...
Date: Wednesday April 12, 2017
According to Atlantic Employers
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What did a survey of over 800 Atlantic employers tell us about their outlook and activities to drive business growth before COVID-19? Explore our findings in five thematic reports and what it means for supporting employers as economies rebuild.
Date: Monday March 22, 2021
Competency Frameworks and Canada’s Essential Skills
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Whether it's new technology or global events driving the pace of change, Canadians are being asked to adapt in the workplace. Canada needs an essential skill framework that includes and looks beyond simple literacy and numeracy. It needs to include the 'soft skills' that industry leaders say are key to success and other essential skills that will help Canadians adapt, no matter what comes their way. Each needs to be measured and tracked to ensure Canadians remain globally competitive, and this paper argues that renewing Canada’s Essential Skills framework is the place to start.
Date: Friday November 13, 2020
Portable Benefits: Protecting People in the New World of Work
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In a fast-changing economy characterized by part-time work, gigs, frequent changes of employers and reskilling, Canada should consider creating a nimble benefits and pension system that is tied to the worker rather than the employer and ensures ease of access, portability, coverage and generosity.
Date: Wednesday January 16, 2019
The Shattered Mirror: 5 Years On
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Our latest report discusses how to save local news in Canada, and how to best adapt the Australian model of negotiated compensation between Google/Meta and the news industry.
Date: Thursday March 3, 2022
Lessons in Resilience: Canada’s Digital Media Ecosystem and the 2019 Election
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Canada's 2019 federal election provided a unique opportunity to investigate mis/ disinformation. The Digital Democracy Project looked at 12 threats to citizens' online sources of information to uncover how resilient Canadians' are in the face of disinformation. Read the main findings to better understand polarization and about online media bubbles in which Canadians live.
Date: Thursday May 7, 2020
Graham Flack
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Graham Flack became Deputy Minister of Employment and Social Development Canada in October of 2018. He began his career in the Privy Council Office and worked on the Quebec referendum...
Date: Friday January 1, 2010
Automation, AI and Anxiety: Policy Preferred, Populism Possible
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Who is fearful of automation and what do they want politicians to do about it? This paper finds a correlation between Canadians’ fear of job losses from automation and populist and nativist views—but also that Canadians favour traditional government policy approaches to job disruption, such as retraining, more than radical measures such as reducing immigration.
Date: Thursday July 11, 2019
As a means of reskilling Canada’s workforce, are microcredentials a boon—or just hype?
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Microcredentials are emerging as a popular method for upskilling, but their lack of standardization, among other concerns, may impact whether or not these programs are here to stay. Read this case study by Rosanna Tamburri on education innovation – all for PPF's Brave New Work project on the future of work.
Date: Thursday June 3, 2021
The Promise and Pitfalls of the Internet of Things in Canada
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...is in a position to design and execute strategic employment and investment plans related to IoT, including issues of talent and labour mobility, early education programs that emphasize math and...
Date: Friday December 16, 2016
Teaching a Machine to Fish
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...those 200 workers has become his biggest challenge, a trend consistent across the industry. “We’re not able to offer very attractive employment, “ he said. “We are not attracting young...
Date: Wednesday September 7, 2022
For inclusive policy, we need inclusive policymaking
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...raise “ethnic minority issues.” Non-visible-minority MPs who represent ridings with diverse populations also increased that likelihood, but not as much. Federal public service employment tracks above “workforce availability” for women,...
Date: Wednesday March 1, 2017
Small Island, Big Impact
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...provincial standpoint, we want to get to a place where we’re seeing wages increase. The employment income line has to move. It’s a key measure of economic success. “CASTL is...
Date: Wednesday September 7, 2022