Search Results for: Future of Work
Revitalizing Atlantic Canada: immigration and the labour market
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What attracts immigrants to Atlantic Canada? Why do newcomers stay? And what can we learn from local successes (and failures) in order to shape a positive future for all Atlantic...
Date: Monday March 12, 2018
Catching the Wind
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The game-changing potential of offshore wind power in Atlantic Canada, combined with an ambitious vision to develop it as an urgent national project, could turn the region into an energy superpower.
Date: Friday October 13, 2023
PPF names Karen Restoule as its 2018 Prime Ministers of Canada Fellow
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...with a more inclusive future,” said Edward Greenspon, President & CEO of PPF. “I’m eager to see the pathways she can illuminate for PPF, her community and the country.” “As...
Date: Tuesday January 16, 2018
Canada and the OECD: 50 years of converging interests
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...of the Organisation, embarked on a project to explore the history of the Canada-OECD relationship, and to discuss where this relationship will take us in the future. The OECD brings together countries...
Date: Monday December 5, 2011
A Keystone of Carbon Could be Our 21st-century Auto Pact
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Canada desperately needs to matter more in the United States. After a run-up in the decade after NAFTA, our share of U.S. imports has fallen from roughly 16 per cent to 12 per cent since the Great Recession, leaving us behind both China and Mexico. Auto production, which for decades held fast well above the level guaranteed in the 1965 Auto Pact, was part of the descent.
Date: Thursday November 26, 2020
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
The Values Proposition: Strengthening Sport in Canada
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Canada is a great sporting nation, but we need values-based sport to prevent unethical practices from undermining the integrity of sport. Concrete actions must be taken by stakeholders in Canadian sport to make values-based sport the foundation of their policies and practices. This report outlines the game plan for government, media, corporations, philanthropists, educators, coaches and athletes.
Date: Wednesday March 13, 2019
Take the 2018 PPF Holiday Quiz!
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What's your wonk score? From 12 months of PPF policy events and projects, we've come up with 12 questions to challenge you. Take our Holiday Quiz.
Date: Tuesday December 18, 2018
Our Honourees: Celebrating 150 Years of Canadians at Home and Abroad
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...than 80 articles on the role of business in society, leadership, financial services, Asia, history and markets worldwide. He is firmly committed to Canada’s future success. He wants — as...
Date: Monday April 17, 2017
Revitalizing Canada’s Manufacturing Economy for a Post-COVID World
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COVID-19 has made it clear that Canada needs a strong domestic manufacturing sector to produce what it needs. Industrial production has been stagnant in the country for two decades and it’s a must for Canada to create and sustain a resilient manufacturing economy that will also be more competitive in a globalized economy and that will create good jobs while minimizing environmental impacts.
Date: Thursday November 5, 2020
Science Disinformation in a Time of Pandemic
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By drawing parallels to elections, climate change and the anti-vaccination movement, author Christopher Dornan illustrates how disinformation about COVID-19 can pose significant risks for public health, social cohesion and collective trust. Dornan identifies several useful recommendations for citizens, governments and social media platforms to consider to effectively combat disinformation and engage in evidence-based discussion about scientific findings.
Date: Tuesday September 1, 2020
How Canada can create a culture of innovation
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...Innovations, lamented the “lack of intensity” among Canadian entrepreneurs. “Silicon Valley firms looking to invest will ask ‘Will this management team [in Canada] work as hard as the team in...
Date: Thursday October 20, 2016
Opinion: The corrosive power of “Where are you from?”
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Opinion: If Atlantic Canadians are serious about boosting immigration and making newcomers feel welcome, writes Kelly Toughill, we need to find a way to have real conversations about regional culture and the come-from-away phenomenon.
Date: Thursday June 6, 2019
Options for a Canada-China FTA Negotiation Strategy
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...which Canadians across the country are innovators. Canada is a major food exporter and a future global food production powerhouse. Canadian institutions provide education and tourism services that are in...
Date: Tuesday June 20, 2017
Improving Public Services: A Strategic Approach to Digital Infrastructure
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By shifting its policies on technology procurement and embracing a more collaborative development approach with Canadian innovators; government could also enable Canada’s technology sector to compete more successfully in global markets.
Date: Thursday August 27, 2020