Search Results for: PPF Awards Dinner
Kathleen Gnocato
Person
...the Pembina unGALA, the Masomo Education Foundation (which operates in Zambia), the Hospital for Sick Children, and the Leukaemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada. Kathleen joined PPF in September 2022....
Date: Sunday September 11, 2022
Navigating the New World Disorder
Publication
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated developing geopolitical shifts that are unlikely to dissipate even after the pandemic's economic shock wanes. As a country long used to a more benign international environment, the future prosperity, security and well-being of Canadians will depend in no small measure on how well we navigate this unfamiliar world.
Date: Thursday July 16, 2020
Carole Lee Reinhardt
Person
...and well-established networks in Atlantic Canada to her role at PPF. Carole Lee holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration and a Chartered Professional Accountant designation. She joined May 2023....
Date: Tuesday November 26, 2019
Kirsten Butler
Person
...leading the development and analysis of a suite of provincial social housing programs, as well as conducting extensive regulatory reviews of the provincial social housing legislative framework. Kirsten joined PPF...
Date: Sunday May 18, 2014
Max FineDay’s challenge to Canada’s public servants: Embrace reconciliation or get out of the way
Article
Indigenous leader Max FineDay had some strong words for a group of senior Canadian public servants: "If you are not in service to Indigenous people, it might be time for you to retire," the Executive Director of Canadian Roots Exchange told the group in a video message.
Date: Wednesday July 25, 2018
Fault Lines and Common Ground
Publication
What divides urban and rural voters? What unites them? In this second report on the Urban-Rural divide in Canada, Sean Speer and his team take a closer look at the Canadian Election Study and find that urban and rural Canadians have divergent opinions on many key issues, but they also agree to a large extent on many others. As populism grows across the western world, policymakers in Canada need to understand the implications.
Date: Wednesday February 3, 2021
Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage — The Time is Now
Article
This paper reflects a strong consensus within the Energy Future Forum that any achievable pathway to national climate and economic objectives must include a significant contribution from carbon capture technologies and from utilization and storage. In any post-COVID, “green stimulus” planning, support for CCUS expansion is even more pivotal than before.
Date: Monday March 1, 2021
Work After COVID-19
Publication
Rebuilding the economy will require a sustained, thoughtful approach. Key to that approach will be improving both the quantity and quality of work to repair fractures and avoid disruption from future waves of infection.
Date: Tuesday July 21, 2020
Improving Public Services: A Strategic Approach to Digital Infrastructure
Publication
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
Canada’s Complicated Tango with the U.S.
Publication
As a presidential election looms in the United States, Canada is facing three possible scenarios for its outcome. Trade with the U.S. remains largely as healthy as it was 30 years ago, but that could change as the country’s neighbour to the south looks inward. To combat this, Canada must continue to diversify while also trading south.
Date: Thursday October 1, 2020
Speer and Asselin: How Canada can compete in the intangibles economy
Article
The rise of the intangible economy requires us to re-evaluate, refine and reorient how we think about economic policy and aim to position Canada to compete in a new market dynamic. The stakes are high. We need to make the right choices today if we want to thrive in an era of intangibles. And some of these decisions challenge decades of conventional wisdom.
Date: Sunday April 7, 2019