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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
Edward Greenspon
Person
...public policy book, and of Searching for Certainty: Inside the New Canadian Mindset. He was a winner of PPF’s Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism. In 2010,...
Date: Tuesday November 10, 2020
Sunil Johal
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Sunil Johal is Policy Director at the University of Toronto’s Mowat Centre. He is frequently invited to advise governments and international organizations about disruptive technologies and regulatory and policy issues. In February 2019, he was named Chair of the Expert Panel on Modern Labour Standards by the federal Minister of Labour. PPF is proud to welcome him as a Fellow.
Date: Sunday December 11, 2016
Immigrant entrepreneurs: Highly desired, hard to attract
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Atlantic Canada is competing globally to attract newcomers to start or take over businesses, create jobs and build the economy. It’s obvious why governments want to recruit them, but it’s surprisingly hard to do.
Date: Monday July 22, 2019
Three ways to reduce anxiety about the future of work
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Rapid change in how we work can stoke fears of a jobless future, but these key policy changes can help turn anxiety into opportunity.
Date: Thursday January 24, 2019
Jennifer Robson
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The Carleton University professor strengthens the new Public Policy Leadership Program with her stellar background in government, politics and academia.
Date: Thursday June 30, 2016
Policy Speaking
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PPF Media houses Public Policy Forum’s podcasts and blogs. Engaging diverse thinkers, doers and deciders, PPF Media cuts through the noise on key public policy decisions and debates in Canada....
Date: Friday April 24, 2020
Brian Bohunicky
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Contact Brian Brian Bohunicky comes to PPF after an outstanding policy career within the government of Canada, including positions in Transport, Agriculture, Fisheries and Oceans, Defence, Public Services and Procurement,...
Date: Sunday December 1, 2019
Groups from Across Canada Join Initiative to Get Climate and Energy Policy Working Together
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The Energy Future Forum (EFF), a new pan-Canadian initiative to develop policy answers that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen the economy, was officially launched on Dec. 16 at a meeting in Toronto. It's an "unprecedented effort to find common cause in addressing Canada’s climate and energy challenges,” said PPF's Edward Greenspon.
Date: Monday December 16, 2019
Report Preview: Do Canadians’ fears about automation push them to populism?
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In an upcoming report for PPF’s Brave New Work project, Peter Loewen and Benjamin Allen Stevens find a correlation between Canadians’ fear of job losses from automation and populist and nativist views—but also that they favour traditional government policy approaches to job disruption, such as retraining, more than radical measures such as reducing immigration.
Date: Tuesday June 25, 2019
Community media can play a pivotal role in Canada’s disrupted news environment
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Editor’s note: Following the publication of The Shattered Mirror, our report on news, democracy and trust in the digital age, the PPF is continuing the conversation on this crucial policy...
Date: Monday April 3, 2017
Public Service Innovation and Leadership During COVID-19: What Can We Learn?
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...adapt their programs to better serve Canadians. As part of the Public Service Leadership and Innovation During COVID-19 project, PPF tried to capture examples of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic...
Date: Thursday June 3, 2021
Arash Golshan
Person
...degree in Engineering and Public Policy from McMaster University. Arash joins PPF with experience in water management and hydroelectricity consulting, in addition to municipal climate change action planning and research....
Date: Sunday May 18, 2014
Kelly Toughill
Person
Kelly Toughill is a consulting researcher with PPF, specializing in immigration policy. She is an award-winning journalist and Associate Professor of Journalism at the University of King’s College in Halifax,...
Date: Tuesday December 11, 2018
Events
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PPF convenes a diverse range of thinkers, doers and deciders at events that bring together private, public and non-profit organizations to feed fresh ideas into policy discussions. Our events celebrate...
Date: Thursday October 19, 2017