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First Nations Finance Authority (Ernie Daniels, CEO): By fixing finance rules, First Nations can invest in themselves
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The First Nations Finance Authority is being honored as a Governor General Innovation Award recipient on May 23 for their ground-breaking innovative funding regime that reduces borrowing cuts and provides interest rate security for First Nations communities across the country.
Date: Wednesday May 23, 2018
Hon. Lisa Raitt, P.C.
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...and business development with clients in the energy, infrastructure and industrial sectors, which align closely with her deep expertise. Prior to her current role, Ms. Raitt was the President and...
Date: Thursday January 1, 1998
Cathy Bennett
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...served on numerous private and public corporate boards with interests in energy, technology, natural resources, manufacturing, industrial construction, real estate, and business services. She is currently an Independent Board Director...
Date: Wednesday November 30, 2022
A New North Star II Revisited
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Six months after the release of New North Star II, the case for a mission-driven economic strategy is even more relevant. The pandemic has highlighted the need for a new industrial strategy to cultivate domestic innovations and technologies in Canada's national interests and authors Robert Asselin and Sean Speer revisit their analysis and recommendations and find a compelling model in the US’s DARPA model.
Date: Thursday September 17, 2020
Together or Apart? Seven Ways for Canada to Pivot to a Sustainable Recovery
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...them. The SDGs comprise 17 interconnected and indivisible goals (The 17 Goals) targeting an elimination of poverty and hunger and the advancement of health, education, clean water and energy, economic...
Date: Thursday November 12, 2020
A House Undivided: Making Senate Independence Work
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After its first taste of independent status last spring, the Senate returns on September 27, with more independent appointments still to come. But how will an independent Senate work in...
Date: Thursday September 22, 2016
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...Standards and Federalism Productivity Case Study - AI « Prev 1 / 110 Next » Photos Your Energy Future – Darlington Nuclear Generating Station Visit Gordon F. Osbaldeston Lecture 2017...
Date: Wednesday October 18, 2017
Don Wright on why our kids will struggle to have a higher living standard than us: Hub Dialogue
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...regulation of the internet is a much lighter touch than, say, medicine or energy, and so it may not be a surprise the most de-regulated part of the economy has...
Date: Thursday September 2, 2021
Focus on Fundamentals: A Road Map to Recovery
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The pandemic is a financial crisis like none in recent years and governments now face the challenge of promoting economic growth and investment and getting people back to work, while also protecting the vulnerable and addressing ballooning debt and deficits. It’s time to use a scalpel, rather than a sledgehammer, to reduce spending by reconsidering the size and compensation levels in the public sector, reviewing the defined benefit pension programs and restructuring where possible.
Date: Monday October 19, 2020
Glen Hodgson
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...economic policy and growth related to recent work on energy and climate policy. He has accumulated 35 years of experience in global and Canadian macro-economics, international trade and finance, fiscal...
Date: Thursday January 12, 2017
Fix the Grid: How Canada Can Integrate Its Electricity Systems for a Clean, Prosperous Future
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While some provinces feast on clean power and export excess to the U.S., others face famine. A Canada Clean Power Fund could knit together a national grid to create a competitive advantage in the low-carbon future.
Date: Friday January 18, 2019
PPF Atlantic Summit 2018
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The Public Policy Forum’s 2018 Atlantic Summit is the first major initiative in a 3-year project. From 2018-2020 we will conduct research, engage communities and decision makers, and work to support the momentum building behind the Atlantic Growth Strategy. The focus of our first year has been on demographics and the role of immigration as one approach to attract, and keep, the talented people who make Atlantic Canada home.
Date: Thursday May 24, 2018
Transformational Gains
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Global events are creating unprecedented opportunities for Canada to attract capital, talent and companies. In an age of disruptive technological advances, Canada must focus on research, talent and innovation to strengthen its innovative capacity, global competitiveness, and economic and social fabric.
Date: Tuesday February 5, 2019
Lisa Raitt – 2023 Testimonial Dinner Award Honouree
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Lisa Raitt: “Growth in Canada has been so anemic; we need to talk about this now in hopes of staving off the same kind of emergency situation (as the mid-1990s).”
Date: Thursday February 9, 2023
COVID-19 and Canada’s Border
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With COVID-19 raging out of control in the U.S., the last thing most Canadians want to contemplate is more entrants from abroad. But it could be a year before a vaccine arrives and much longer until it is administered globally. If COVID has taught us anything it is that, this time, we have to be ahead of the curve on border control.
Date: Tuesday July 28, 2020