Search Results for: First Nations
How Canada can create a culture of innovation
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...to commit to improved educational outcomes for First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. Where Canada’s OECD quality of life ranking is 6th, it drops to 63rd for indigenous communities. The...
Date: Thursday October 20, 2016
Ontario Child Care Workforce Development Snapshot
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...As of March 31, 2020: 75 percent of licensed child care centres were not-for-profit (operated by not-for-profit organizations and First Nations) and 25 percent were for-profit; 79 percent of child...
Date: Wednesday March 16, 2022
Canada’s Digital Connectivity Infrastructure in the Age of COVID-19
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...common standard of 50/10 Megabits per-second (Mbps) to approximately 85 percent of the population. However, only 45.6 percent of rural households, and 34.8 percent of First Nations have access to...
Date: Friday April 30, 2021
PPF to honour Indigenous journalist Karyn Pugliese with 2019 Hyman Solomon Award
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Karyn Pugliese of APTN will be honoured with the Hyman Solomon Award for Public Policy Journalism at PPF’s 2019 Testimonial Dinner and Awards on April 11 in Toronto.
Date: Thursday February 28, 2019
Ten Tough Jobs 2010
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...sector, these positions generally report to the head of their department or agency. In selecting from the list of nominations, we consulted a senior group of individuals in a more...
Date: Tuesday October 19, 2010
Different Paths of Pandemic Protection: A comparative case study on vaccine rollouts in Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario
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Getting Canadians immunized against COVID-19 has been a complicated process in a country that has neither the capabilities to produce its own vaccine nor a centralized healthcare system to administer it.
Date: Thursday October 28, 2021
Kim Baird
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Kim Baird (Tsawwassen First Nation) is the owner of Kim Baird Strategic Consulting and offers First Nation related and strategic advice to industry, government and First Nations. While Chief of...
Date: Wednesday October 12, 2022
Connect to Compete: Enabling Entrepreneurship in the Digital Age
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COVID-19 has been a wake-up call for Canada’s entrepreneurial economy. This paper shows why some entrepreneurs have thrived while others are facing more barriers than ever.
Date: Thursday October 8, 2020
British Columbia Child Care Workforce Development Snapshot
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...First Nations Pedagogies Network and the Early Childhood Pedagogy Network support leadership in early childhood education by helping put theory into practice, and the BC Early Years Professional Development Hub...
Date: Wednesday March 16, 2022
Primary Care for Everyone
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...These to-dos are really the must-dos. They demand leadership and substantial, collaborative work by an array of players, including provincial, territorial and federal cabinet ministers, First Nations, Inuit and Metis...
Date: Wednesday March 29, 2023
A Leadership Blueprint for Canada’s Net-Zero Energy Transition
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...of the energy transition. The calls to action set out specific commitments by industry, so that First Nations have the opportunity to be full partners in sustainable resource development of...
Date: Tuesday March 15, 2022
Newfoundland and Labrador Child Care Workforce Development Snapshot
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...recognized ECE diploma Additional training may be required to work as an ECE educator in First Nations centres based on accountability to several different governing bodies. Level I – IV...
Date: Tuesday May 17, 2022
Digital Infrastructure for the Post-Pandemic World
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The emergence of COVID-19 forced a shift away from workplaces and schools to online working and learning, but this digital transformation has not been evenly experienced by all Canadians. This report examines the key components of Canada's essential digital infrastructure system, highlights worrying inequalities that exist within this system, and offers recommendations on how to quickly reduce some of the most glaring obstacles that prevent many of those who would benefit the most from accessing training, education and employment opportunities digitally from doing so.
Date: Wednesday May 5, 2021
Building Leaders: Early Childhood Development in Indigenous Communities
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...the summer of 2014, Canada’s Public Policy Forum launched a national initiative to improve ECD in First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities. Building Leaders: Early Childhood Development in Indigenous Communities...
Date: Tuesday July 14, 2015
Legitimacy in Government: A Path to Reconciliation
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...PPF is partnering with the First Nations University of Canada and the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy to engage young Indigenous people in a conversation about legitimacy in government...
Date: Friday January 5, 2018