Search Results for: Future of Work

Building the Future: Strategic Infrastructure for Long-Term Growth (Interim Report)

...planning and a greater focus nationally on innovative infrastructure investment. The release of the report,”Building the Future: Strategic Infrastructure for Long-Term Growth,” on Wednesday, Oct. 12, coincides with the PPF’s...

Date: Thursday October 13, 2016


Foreword: The future of Canada lies in the North

"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


A Leadership Blueprint for Canada’s High-ESG Gas

...problem,” policymakers often remind themselves that “the perfect cannot be the enemy of the good.” This is very much true for the future of Canada’s natural gas. Canada’s ability to...

Date: Thursday August 18, 2022


Together or Apart? Seven Ways for Canada to Pivot to a Sustainable Recovery

...components of a comprehensive system to assess progress and to ensure accountability. In short, the SDGs are a detailed framework for a post-pandemic rebuild — they draw the linkages between...

Date: Thursday November 12, 2020


For Acadians, newcomers are economic saviours but linguistic threats

The Acadian shore of Nova Scotia is one of many rural areas of Atlantic Canada betting its future on immigration. But even French-speaking newcomers aren’t a solution to preserving the area’s Francophone heart.

Date: Thursday June 6, 2019


Growth, Innovation and the Organization of Science Policy in Canada

...expansion of its productive capacity (output per worker). Productivity is improved through innovation and technological progress. Since the ’70s, Canada’s industrial policy approach has been essentially to: Create a patchwork...

Date: Monday September 12, 2022


The Values Proposition: Building a Stronger Canada through Values-Based Sport

This report summarizes what we heard during five roundtables held through spring 2018 and which explored actions and policies aimed at ensuring values-based sport is an intentional and fundamental part of the Canadian sport system, from playground to podium.

Date: Wednesday August 8, 2018


A Model for Canada-wide Population and Economic Growth Post-Pandemic

As we move toward rebuilding our economy, policymakers should consider the success of the Atlantic Immigration Pilot as a model for regionally focused population and economic growth, especially in smaller cities and rural communities – likely to be hardest hit by the COVID-19 reduction in immigration.

Date: Friday November 13, 2020


Janice Stein – 2023 Testimonial Dinner Award Honouree

Janice Stein: “It’s a profoundly encouraging thing that so many people want to understand more than they currently do.”

Date: Thursday February 16, 2023


Work in Progress – Task Force 2 Final Report

How do we prepare Canada’s workforce to lead in the global clean energy sector?

Date: Thursday March 8, 2018


Public Interest and Media Infrastructures

Today’s media systems include the powerful social media companies that watch, commodify, and manipulate us as they buy and sell our data. Mike Ananny urges a more sophisticated understanding of the privately controlled infrastructures where important decisions are made shaping behaviours, beliefs and online news. These might look like boring, messy, technical places where only engineers work, but regulators need to grasp their complexities and tackle the prevailing secrecy to better protect the public interest.

Date: Tuesday September 1, 2020


Opioid Addiction Treatment in 2019

Canada can stem the tide of the opioid crisis. Among Canadians, there is hope that hastening access to treatments that work, learning from and scaling up best practices, and continuing coordinated efforts between all stakeholders will positively impact the pathways to treatment services - beyond just overdose treatment. This report discusses opportunities for policy makers to engage on harm reduction, equitable access to treatment and support, and collaboration and coordination following a PPF roundtable on opioid misuse in December 2018.

Date: Thursday March 14, 2019


Automation, AI and Anxiety: Policy Preferred, Populism Possible

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


How ‘Get Updates on COVID-19’ Got Up and Going

PPF's new series chronicles how public servants throughout Canada responded in real-time to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). First up: A new email notification service, Get Updates on COVID-19, turns traditional methods of government communications on its ear. How did it come to be in weeks, not months?

Date: Friday August 7, 2020


Welcome, reimagined

By tackling a global humanitarian crisis in Ukraine head on, Newfoundland and Labrador is addressing both a retention dilemma and a growing workforce shortage. Now, more than ever, the Rock’s...

Date: Tuesday February 21, 2023