Search Results for: Immigration
Joe Teo: Integrate as quickly as possible
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The co-founder of HeyOrca! launched the social media solutions company because he wanted to learn how to run a business. It worked.
Date: Monday July 22, 2019
Immigrants aren’t job killers, they’re job creators — and they want to come to Canada
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The Canada brand has never been hotter, but the immigration question brings with it complexities ranging from language obstacles and the provision of sufficient housing, to ensuring we’re equipping our...
Date: Tuesday April 25, 2017
Bringing Innovation to Life: Innovation-Based Growth In Canadian Life Sciences
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Canada’s economic future will be driven by globally competitive companies working at the forefront of knowledge and technology. These companies are built on innovation and skills, cornerstones of economic growth and prosperity. Canada enjoys significant advantages in these areas, but must not be complacent as countries around the world are driving their own economic growth through significant investments in research, innovation and skills.
Date: Wednesday January 3, 2018
Automation, AI and COVID-19
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A majority of Canadians indicate they have at least a basic understanding of AI and automation. Politicians have an opportunity to seize upon this perceived knowledge to address coming challenges by linking COVID-19 solutions to challenges — and potentially positives — presented by AI and automation. This new report by Peter Loewen and Blake Lee-Whiting shows signs that Canada has not seen a large populist backlash to the pandemic, but that could be coming, perhaps against immigration policies, if citizens feel the government is not following through on job creation.
Date: Wednesday June 23, 2021
Tareq Hadhad: Adapt your product to the Canadian market
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The CEO of Peace by Chocolate is on a mission to spread hope—and to be a major player in Canada’s candy market
Date: Monday July 22, 2019
The Next-Level Border: Advancing Technology & Expanding Trade
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This report summarizes what was heard at two roundtables on how to enhance the Canada-U.S. border with tech to facilitate trade.
Date: Monday July 30, 2018
Two Mountains To Climb: Canada’s Twin Deficits and How to Scale Them
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Canada must come to grips not just with a massive fiscal shortfall but also consecutive deficits in our current account, a broad measure of our trading and investment relationship with the rest of the world. A government plan must be growth oriented if we are to get the twin deficits under control without resorting to the drastic measures of 25 years ago.
Date: Monday September 14, 2020
Kelly Toughill
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...is also the founder of Polestar Immigration Research, a media and consulting company that provides quality news, analysis and information about Canadian immigration to a range of stakeholders and institutions....
Date: Tuesday December 11, 2018
Don Wright on why our kids will struggle to have a higher living standard than us: Hub Dialogue
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...happen, so we’re going to have to increase immigration levels significantly to overcome that.” I think that’s the wrong mindset. I’m a big believer in relatively high levels of immigration,...
Date: Thursday September 2, 2021
According to Atlantic Employers
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What did a survey of over 800 Atlantic employers tell us about their outlook and activities to drive business growth before COVID-19? Explore our findings in five thematic reports and what it means for supporting employers as economies rebuild.
Date: Monday March 22, 2021
Mind the Gaps
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...As a result, the region was losing out on the social dynamism and economic opportunity immigration brings. It was indicative of a sentiment common back then in the rest of...
Date: Tuesday March 19, 2024
Marian Campbell Jarvis
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Marian Campbell Jarvis, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic & Program Policy at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada / Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada, joins our team through an Interchange as...
Date: Thursday August 31, 2023
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
Conference Recap: PPF Atlantic Summit
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The summit, which attracted hundreds from around Atlantic Canada, kicked off PPF’s three-year policy research project on Atlantic revitalization, with a special focus on newcomer retention.
Date: Wednesday March 28, 2018
Together or Apart? Seven Ways for Canada to Pivot to a Sustainable Recovery
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...will further advance such progressive solutions to solve global challenges, with climate action as a priority. 3. Immigration: Restart immigration on a more ambitious trajectory of integration. Immigrants to Canada...
Date: Thursday November 12, 2020