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Speer and Asselin: How Canada can compete in the intangibles economy
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The rise of the intangible economy requires us to re-evaluate, refine and reorient how we think about economic policy and aim to position Canada to compete in a new market dynamic. The stakes are high. We need to make the right choices today if we want to thrive in an era of intangibles. And some of these decisions challenge decades of conventional wisdom.
Date: Sunday April 7, 2019
Power Plays
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...Prince Edward Island. ↑ United Nations. (Apr. 17, 2023). Canada. 2023 National Inventory Report (NIR). https://unfccc.int/documents/627833. ↑ Natural Resources Canada. (n.d.). Clean Power Roadmap For Atlantic Canada. https://natural-resources.canada.ca/sites/nrcan/files/energy/images/publications/2022/A%20CLEAN%20POWER%20ROADMAP%20FOR%20ATLANTIC%20CANADA-ACC.pdf. ↑ Sharpe,...
Date: Monday February 26, 2024
CLIMATETIVENESS: What it Takes for Canada to Thrive in a Net Zero Exporting World
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...(for our own good and the global good) and transition industries to become low carbon producers. If Canada was going to continue to be among the great exporting nations in...
Date: Wednesday October 27, 2021
Edward Greenspon: Oil Chaos and the M.I.A. Strategy
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Whatever one’s view of the oil industry, we will all be better served by an orderly transition over the current chaos. Oil's implosion in provinces such as Newfoundland, Saskatchewan & Alberta is forcing a 30 year transition in 30 days, and PPF President & CEO Edward Greenspon says we need to be strategic in leveraging the current crisis to stimulate economic activity while addressing climate change.
Date: Thursday April 2, 2020
Do We Really Want to Make Canadians Poorer?
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...it comes to decarbonization. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP) process – most recently on display at Glasgow last year – is supposed...
Date: Wednesday July 27, 2022
Foreword: The future of Canada lies in the North
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"If Canada wants to retain its effective power to shape and influence decisions in its own backyard, it must make sure it clearly understands its interests in the Arctic and is prepared to back them with solid policies and strategic investments."
Date: Tuesday July 9, 2019
Move over Oscars, we’re announcing our 2019 policy stars
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We're pleased to announce all five of our honourees for our 2019 Testimonial Dinner honourees, for their dedication to public service and strengthening our democracy and its institutions.
Date: Thursday January 31, 2019
Join to celebrate our 2019 Atlantic Dinner honourees
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Let's raise a toast to five exceptional Atlantic Canadians at PPF's Atlantic Dinner & Frank McKenna Awards in Halifax.
Date: Tuesday April 16, 2019
Anjum Sultana
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...2020 Global Woman of Distinction by the NGO Committee on the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and the Frances Lankin Inspiring Leadership Award by Social Planning Toronto....
Date: Thursday September 9, 2021
Place-Based Policy Options for Entrepreneurship in a Post-COVID Canada
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As Canadians look forward to the economic recovery and governments herald a new normal, few signals have been given about its policy landscape, and even fewer about the role of small business and entrepreneurs in the post-COVID strategy. With the horizon now in sight, how can governments move quickly to put a shot in the arm of small businesses and entrepreneurs that are operating in disparate and localized challenges and conditions?
Date: Wednesday March 10, 2021
Marshalling Incubators to Build Global Companies
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...database (above) such that countries outside the European BICs Network may participate, and so that individual nations can export and manipulate their data. Alternatively, suggest to EBN to expand the...
Date: Wednesday March 1, 2017
Diversification not Dependence: A Made-in-Canada China Strategy
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Canada can truly diversify its trade and break its dependence on a single partner by pursuing a strategy built on sectoral trade agreements with China.
Date: Thursday October 11, 2018
Harms Reduction: A Six-Step Program to Protect Democratic Expression Online
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The health of our democracy ultimately depends on citizens having the capacity, willingness and opportunity to participate in our public life. Following nine months of study and deliberations, the Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression has settled on a six-part, made-in-Canada plan to address hate speech and other online harms, while balancing freedom of speech.
Date: Wednesday January 27, 2021
Dr. Kamran Khan: To fight global infectious diseases, he prescribes a dose of big data
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...Asian Nations to improve their capacity to control outbreaks, so infectious diseases don’t spread to other parts of the world. Dr. Khan says one of the biggest challenges for governments,...
Date: Wednesday May 23, 2018
Capturing a Carbon Opportunity
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If the climate challenge confronting Canada is evident, so too is the economic opportunity out there to be captured. The twin objectives are clear and measurable: We must meet our 2030 GHG emission reduction targets on the way to a net-zero future by 2050, and we must do it in a manner that ensures jobs, growth and a strong economy. The good news is that a sightline to that future – one where a national carbon management strategy is critical to meeting our objectives – is coming into clear focus.
Date: Thursday August 26, 2021