Search Results for: Environment
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
Together or Apart? Seven Ways for Canada to Pivot to a Sustainable Recovery
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...member countries of the United Nations, the first ever bottom-up, inclusive blueprint for economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability to foster long-term, shared prosperity in advanced and developing economies...
Date: Thursday November 12, 2020
Coming Home: Global Affairs’ Quest to Repatriate Canadians
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For six months, Global Affairs morphed into a giant consular and travel service. As part of the Public Service Innovation and Leadership During COVID-19 series, we dive into this account of historic department-wide shifts to consular services to help Canadians abroad. With a volunteer workforce of more than 1,000 public servants pulled from their day jobs, this consular focus led to major rethinking of how the department responds to an emergency and underscored the need to communicate the way Canadians do.
Date: Wednesday September 23, 2020
Getting ahead of disruption is key to our future: An introduction to Canada Next
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Decision makers in all fields face intense challenges to keep up with geopolitical transformation, the sweeping innovations of the digital age, the impacts on work sparked by artificial intelligence, and the catastrophic effects of climate change. Edward Greenspon and Drew Fagan introduce the challenges that Canada Next addresses.
Date: Monday January 7, 2019
PANEL 3—Established companies must ‘disrupt ourselves’ to be innovative and stay ahead
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...a 13-member organization where firms share technologies in order to push environmental performance forward. The auto industry is similarly being turned on its head. Changes in the industry are being...
Date: Wednesday October 19, 2016
PANEL 2—Canada’s emerging innovators face funding, talent and culture gaps
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...business sense to sell out to a US company, especially “if a company that continues to meet milestones” isn’t able to secure proper funding. Everett said the financing environment in...
Date: Wednesday October 19, 2016
The Risk of the Digital Status Quo
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Digital transformation can be risky — but the status quo is riskier. Drawing on insights of CIOs and senior public servants, this report identifies strategies for dealing with the risks of not embracing digital technology for public services, including: legacy systems costs, cyber security, culture and people, and service failure.
Date: Thursday October 17, 2019
One-on-One: Navdeep Bains and John Manley on innovation
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...discussed how innovation is spurred on by competition. Bains said “competition is so critical to create that environment” where businesses are taking more risks. “Lifelong learning” Bains has focused on...
Date: Wednesday October 19, 2016
Tom Chau: Bringing voice to the voiceless with technology
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...to choose letters on an on-screen keyboard. “We’ve got over three dozen kids who are now able to do their school activities and control things in their environment, simply by...
Date: Tuesday May 22, 2018
Quebec Child Care Workforce Development Snapshot
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...are available in a family environment, that is to say operated by a self-employed worker who welcomes between 6-9 children into their home; this is recognized by a coordinating office,...
Date: Tuesday May 10, 2022
BUILDING THE FUTURE
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...conditions will look like — demographically, geographically, economically, socially, technologically, environmentally — when the infrastructure decided upon today is in middle age many years from now. Some governments now do...
Date: Tuesday October 11, 2016
Keeping the Lights On: Did a wage subsidy in a time of crisis save Canadian businesses?
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As businesses saw their revenues plummet in early spring, the Department of Finance and the Canada Revenue Agency quickly hammered out the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy allowing employers to keep on staff. Did it achieve what it set out to do?
Date: Thursday December 3, 2020
Keeping Up With the Speed of Disruption
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Back by popular demand, the Public Policy Forum’s professional development seminar series Keeping Up With the Speed of Disruption is being offered for a third time, with the first of four sessions taking place on December 7, 2018. The aim of this series is to equip the participants to better understand disruptive technologies, how they can be used to enhance government services and the ways they are challenging policy and governance approaches.
Date: Wednesday November 15, 2017
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PPF is a vibrant organization that fosters innovative thinking and a passion for public policy. We are always interested in hearing from talented people who want to join the team. PPF provides equal opportunity to all employees and applicants.
Date: Thursday March 22, 2018
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Date: Wednesday October 18, 2017