Search Results for: Innovation
Jan. 20, 2014: Canada’s Evolving Internal Market: An agenda for a more cohesive economic union
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...trade. These obstacles are estimated to cost the Canadian economy billions of dollars, reducing our country’s productivity, innovation capacity and competitiveness. Last spring, the Internal Trade Secretariat (ITSC), in collaboration...
Date: Monday January 20, 2014
A Hurry-up Offense for Energy Transition and Clean Growth Projects
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...innovation in the clean energy sector in support of their ambitious climate goals. If the authorities fail to meet the deadline for permitting large-scale renewable energy projects, they get approved...
Date: Wednesday March 27, 2024
PPF Welcomes Five New Fellows
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...relations and climate and energy policy. · Erin Freeland Ballantyne, Dean of Land Based Education, Research and Innovation, and Founder, Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning. She brings her knowledge of...
Date: Friday January 5, 2018
Stewarding AI and cultural change: It’s everybody’s business
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What will it take to steward digital development and support workers and the broader public as we transition to a more automated future? Emerging leaders from the Banff Forum say the underlying principles we follow – and insist on – may make all the difference.
Date: Wednesday November 27, 2019
Four strategies governments can adopt to manage change in the digital age
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In 2017, the Public Policy Forum dedicated its annual Prime Ministers of Canada Fellowship to the idea of governance in the digital age. The goal was to explore and explain how the world is changing and how governments are responding. Kent Aitken won that Fellowship and wrote a report that practitioners can use as a resource as they contemplate the pressures of change on governance systems. Governance in the Digital Age is the result of a year of research, surveys and interviews with about 300 government practitioners and stakeholders in Canada and around the world.
Date: Monday October 1, 2018
Taking Back Health Care
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...what they expect today and what they should be able to expect in the years ahead. This paper and the work to follow calls for the pragmatic reform and innovation...
Date: Monday January 23, 2023
PPF and Action Canada introduce the 2018-2019 Fellows
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...be the future of food. The Fellows will examine policy questions around agri-food, supply and trade, food security in Canada, innovation and technology in the agriculture and agri-food sector, food...
Date: Friday June 8, 2018
Connect to Compete: Enabling Entrepreneurship in the Digital Age
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COVID-19 has been a wake-up call for Canada’s entrepreneurial economy. This paper shows why some entrepreneurs have thrived while others are facing more barriers than ever.
Date: Thursday October 8, 2020
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
PPF announces 2018 Peter Lougheed Award honourees
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The Peter Lougheed Award for Leadership in Public Policy will be presented to four exemplary Western leaders being recognized for their extraordinary leadership and contribution to public policy and public discourse. The honourees will be celebrated at PPF’s Annual Western Dinner in Vancouver on Sept. 19.
Date: Monday June 4, 2018
Bringing New Voices to the Table: Re-thinking On-reserve Housing in Canada
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...on off-reserve contractors. Participants also expressed that there is an opportunity for innovation, through the integration of energy-efficient materials and practices as well as opportunities to incorporate traditional and modern...
Date: Monday February 27, 2017
Securing Canada’s cyberspace
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While Canadians have openly embraced a new era of digital and technological innovation, the advent of the Internet has ushered in threats formerly unimaginable. Is Canada equipped to handle the...
Date: Monday February 6, 2017
Frontiers and Borders:
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...anew about liberalism and illiberalism: how we got from there to here, the role of economics, geopolitics, and—particularly for me—the great new information innovations of my lifetime with their mixed...
Date: Friday June 18, 2021
Let’s Get ‘Skills Secure’: Closing the Gap in Canada’s Lifelong Education System
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Canada’s labour market will not have the skilled workers it needs unless we change the way we train workers today. As automation spurs rapid change, Canada needs to change its approach to education, training and skills development in order to close the skills gap.
Date: Monday January 21, 2019
Event Recap: PPF Atlantic Dinner & Frank McKenna Awards
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“It’s enormously humbling to have an award like this named after me,” said Frank McKenna. “Usually, they wait ’til you’re dead, and I guess PPF got tired of waiting.”
Date: Thursday March 29, 2018