Search Results for: Public Service
What MAiD can teach us about policy-making and leadership
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...recommend this program to individuals who are inspired to become an influential public policy leader.’ – Eliza (Quan) Wu, Canada Border Services Agency Bright Spot visits such as the one...
Date: Thursday January 30, 2020
Retirement Security for Everyone: Enhancing Canada’s Pension System
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How can our country’s retirement savings provide greater security and coverage to more Canadians, while ensuring pension plans stay financially healthy into the future? This is what Canada’s Public Policy...
Date: Tuesday February 3, 2015
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PPF is a vibrant organization that fosters innovative thinking and a passion for public policy. We are always interested in hearing from talented people who want to join the team. PPF provides equal opportunity to all employees and applicants.
Date: Thursday March 22, 2018
Testimonial Awards 2020: The Honouree Book List
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...Society” fifty years ago. First written in 1934 and renewed in 1960, this book launched Niebuhr as the foremost public intellectual on the subject of morality in public life. The...
Date: Wednesday November 11, 2020
Announcing the findings from the Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression and the Citizens’ Assembly on Democratic Expression
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PUBLIC OPINION AND EXPERTS AGREE: THE TIME TO REGULATE SOCIAL MEDIA HAS ARRIVED. In light of the steep growth in social and democratic harms online, the Public Policy Forum established...
Date: Wednesday January 27, 2021
The Belonging Advantage
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...investing in social capital — from public spaces to mental health services and programs to address social isolation — to ensure that people don’t fall through the cracks. Health care...
Date: Monday December 11, 2023
PANEL 1 — Canada’s unique chance for growth: Attract return-hungry global investors to badly needed…
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...in the conversation steering too far in the direction of publicly funded infrastructure. “Public infrastructure will crowd out, not in an economic sense but in conversation, the focus that needs...
Date: Monday October 17, 2016
Neil Desai
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Neil Desai is a corporate director and executive with extensive experience in the public and private sector. Most recently, he served on the leadership team of Magnet Forensics, a Canadian...
Date: Wednesday January 1, 2014
Perceptions and Polarization
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Political polarization is growing across the globe. In this first report on the urban-rural divide in Canada, Sean Speer teams up with Peter Loewen and the University of Toronto’s Policy, Elections and Representation Lab (PEARL) to explore the theory that a “perception gap” exists between those who live in cities, the suburbs and rural communities. How do Canadians' distorted beliefs of one another’s circumstances fuel polarization?
Date: Tuesday February 2, 2021
July 9, 2013: The Future of Canada’s Nuclear Energy Sector — Toronto Workshop Summary Report
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On May 23, 2013, the Public Policy Forum convened leaders from the private, public, academic and research sectors in Toronto to explore the future of the Canadian nuclear sector. The...
Date: Tuesday July 9, 2013
July 8, 2013: The Future of Canada’s Nuclear Energy Sector — Saskatoon Workshop Summary Report
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On May 14, 2013, the Public Policy Forum convened leaders from the private, public, academic and research sectors in Saskatoon to explore the future of the Canadian nuclear sector. The...
Date: Monday July 8, 2013
Federal program aims to support lifelong learning, but analysts call for changes
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The government is looking for ways to support citizens in lifelong learning-- the Canada Training Benefit is one way of doing this. However, it may not be enough. Read this case study by Rosanna Tamburri on education innovation – all for PPF's Brave New Work project on the future of work.
Date: Thursday June 3, 2021
Changes to Atlantic Immigration Pilot praised, but more are needed
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Revealing the list of employers authorized to bring immigrants to Canada through the Atlantic Immigration Pilot is an important first step in combating immigration fraud.
Date: Tuesday December 11, 2018
The role of regulatory diplomacy: A discussion with Jim Ellis, President and CEO Alberta Energy Regulator
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...in Alberta and beyond. As part of this outreach, Mr. Ellis gave a presentation in Ottawa on December 3, 2014. The Public Policy Forum brought together 27 business leaders, energy...
Date: Friday December 19, 2014
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