Search Results for: Inclusion
Ontario Digital Inclusion Summit – Summary Report
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PPF hosted Ontario's first Digital Inclusion Summit back in February. Now, the summary report is available with key takeaways from the event that sparked a larger conversation on making the internet work for all.
Date: Tuesday May 29, 2018
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
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Statement The Public Policy Forum’s approach is called Inclusion to Conclusion. Inclusion involves engaging diverse perspectives around our tables and within our ranks in order to arrive at the best...
Date: Friday February 11, 2022
PPF and TD Bank Group announce a major research project on economic and financial inclusion
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...in-depth understanding of economic and financial inclusion in Canada and establish a framework for cross-sector action. It will identify practical opportunities for policymakers and stakeholders to help Canadians access economic...
Date: Wednesday June 23, 2021
Mise en œuvre de la réconciliation : inclusion et action
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Le FPP offrira à nouveau une occasion de perfectionnement professionnel réservée aux cadres de la fonction publique et leaders des organismes à but non-lucratif, en vue d’explorer en profondeur les moyens de mettre en œuvre la réconciliation avec les peuples autochtones.
Date: Tuesday October 23, 2018
The internet is transforming the world, but not for everybody
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The Ontario Digital Inclusion Summit aims to find, understand and fix the gaps that keep some citizens from accessing and benefiting from the digital world. Ontario Digital Inclusion Summit Making Technology...
Date: Friday October 13, 2017
Storytelling leads the way for inclusive policy design
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...All-In: Pathways to Economic and Financial Inclusion project at PPF represented such a point, where innovative storytelling met a topic of public interest: financial and economic inclusion. Canada is arguably...
Date: Thursday March 16, 2023
It’s not a problem we need to solve, it’s really about good management
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As the world of work continuously shifts, modernizes and innovates, what moves can be made to get and stay ahead when it comes to making work more accessible? PPF co-hosted The Future of Accessible Work panel discussion with Microsoft Canada featuring national and international accessibility leaders & advocates. This speaker series engaged PPF members to learn about accessibility and inclusion straight from the experts. To keep the conversation going and share our lessons learned, we have encapsulated five significant takeaways from the discussion.
Date: Wednesday March 11, 2020
Developing Canada’s Digital-Ready Public Service
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Canada’s public service has charted an ambitious information management and technology strategy, and talent is one of its pillars. Finding innovative approaches to attracting, developing, and retaining the best and brightest requires rethinking many traditional assumptions and harnessing new approaches. What can be done to attract a skilled and diverse workforce?
Date: Friday March 8, 2019
Employers’ Lessons Learned in Hiring, Retaining and Advancing Employees with Disabilities
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...across Canada and across sectors about their efforts to improve inclusion of employees with disabilities. Participants included executives and leaders from human resources, equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives and employees...
Date: Saturday March 5, 2022
Inclusive Futures: Indigenous engagement in Canada’s workforce
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This report examines four interlinked factors that contribute to Indigenous inclusion in the labour force and which are incorporated into a suggested framework for developing a tool to measure how inclusive an organization’s workplace is.
Date: Thursday March 12, 2020
An Investment that Works for Child Care
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In June 2022, Public Policy Forum outlined how to strengthen the workforce in the early learning and childcare sector through better recruitment, retention and recognition. This week, federal and provincial ministers responsible for early childhood learning answered that call.
Date: Wednesday September 14, 2022
Toward a National Adaptation Strategy
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The Public Policy Forum convened a roundtable discussion on June 16, 2021, to look at the development of a national adaptation strategy in Canada that spans disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation domains. The participants represented a range of public- and private-sector perspectives on the key challenges that need to be addressed to push towards greater resilience and adaptation and confront the challenges of climate change. The conversation also looked at the need to set clear time-bound targets and performance measures and ensure these are grounded in Canada’s Emergency Management Strategy.
Date: Monday August 16, 2021
From Investment to Action: Building a Canada-wide Child Care System
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As the current federal government endeavours to be the first to act materially on the promise of child care for all, questions of quality, affordability, accessibility and inclusion will stand in line behind jurisdictional bargaining.
Date: Tuesday May 25, 2021
Together or Apart? Seven Ways for Canada to Pivot to a Sustainable Recovery
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...member countries of the United Nations, the first ever bottom-up, inclusive blueprint for economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability to foster long-term, shared prosperity in advanced and developing economies...
Date: Thursday November 12, 2020
Supporting Entrepreneurship and SMEs: A Post-Pandemic Skills and Training Agenda
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The impact of COVID-19 on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been significant and severe. SMEs are the backbone of Canada’s economy, yet few have the resources to deal with the skills and labour shortages they face – shortages that the pandemic has only made worse. By combining preliminary data from an ongoing survey of SMEs, associated focus group discussions, and existing research, this report highlights opportunities to better support SMEs in the pandemic recovery and after. This includes a specific focus on embracing diversity and inclusion as a key way of addressing their skills needs.
Date: Thursday June 17, 2021