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Growing the Next Crop of Canadian Farmers
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The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted fundamental gaps in our agricultural system. For the first time in generations, many Canadians saw empty grocery store shelves and became acutely aware of the challenges facing our domestic food system. What followed were COVID-19 outbreaks on farms and meat processing plants and temporary foreign workers who were delayed and stranded. The pandemic highlights vulnerabilities in Canada’s food supply-chain and the importance of a resilient agricultural sector.
Date: Wednesday March 10, 2021
Competency Frameworks and Canada’s Essential Skills
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Whether it's new technology or global events driving the pace of change, Canadians are being asked to adapt in the workplace. Canada needs an essential skill framework that includes and looks beyond simple literacy and numeracy. It needs to include the 'soft skills' that industry leaders say are key to success and other essential skills that will help Canadians adapt, no matter what comes their way. Each needs to be measured and tracked to ensure Canadians remain globally competitive, and this paper argues that renewing Canada’s Essential Skills framework is the place to start.
Date: Friday November 13, 2020
Paycheque to Paycheque: Coping with Income Volatility as Work Changes
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What can we do about workers living paycheque to paycheque, with the rise of the gig economy and future changes to work? Emerging leaders from the Banff Forum gathered and came up with a holistic set of policy measures for improving the well-being of workers and to help prevent economic marginalization as work changes.
Date: Monday September 23, 2019
Impacts of Artificial Intelligence on Connected and Autonomous Vehicles and Precision Medicine
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As researchers and business leaders move quickly to explore and exploit an ever-growing field of artificial intelligence opportunities, policy-makers – recognizing AI’s far-reaching implications - seek frameworks to assess and regulate them. These reports examine issues and suggest frameworks for AI’s impact on transportation of people and goods, and on how we predict, identify and treat disease.
Date: Monday December 10, 2018
A Mouse Sleeping Next to a Dragon: New Twitches and Grunts
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Stephanie Carvin from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs presented her paper, A Mouse Sleeping Next to a Dragon: New Twitches, at the Public Policy Forum’s second roundtable with...
Date: Tuesday December 19, 2017
Catching the Wind
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The game-changing potential of offshore wind power in Atlantic Canada, combined with an ambitious vision to develop it as an urgent national project, could turn the region into an energy superpower.
Date: Friday October 13, 2023
The Future is Now: Creating Decent Work Post-Pandemic
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Artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, the sharing economy and other emerging technologies were expected to upend the nature of how people work, eliminate an array of routine and repetitive tasks, and put pressure on social support frameworks designed for a different era. These impacts expected to be felt in the near to medium term suddenly find themselves present. The need to reinvent Canada's social and economic policy frameworks has a newfound urgency.
Date: Friday June 12, 2020
Employment Gaps and Underemployment for Racialized Groups and Immigrants in Canada
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“Foreign-sounding names” are 20 to 40 per cent less likely to get a call-back for a job interview, depending on company size. Challenges like these are faced by immigrants, racialized people, and especially women in these two groups – seemingly regardless of the job candidate’s skills. Eddy Ng and Suzanne Gagnon shine a light on some of the apparent contradictions in Canadian hiring behaviour, and bring to the light some promising solutions found in the labour-market research in this fifth Skills Next report.
Date: Monday January 27, 2020
Surviving Disruption in the Shipbuilding Industry
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Irving Shipbuilding Inc. found itself in the middle of a rapidly changing shipping industry, and had to adapt to the evolving requirements of talent and infrastructure. Their grow-at-home approach may be the one to adopt in other disrupted sectors too. Read this case study by Sherry Scully on managing transformation in a disrupted sector – all for PPF's Brave New Work project on the future of work.
Date: Thursday June 17, 2021
Can refugees help save PEI’s way of life?
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Some employers and advocates want Canada to recruit refugees to fill local labour shortages, Kelly Toughill reports. Others worry that would dilute the humanitarian mission of resettling the world’s most vulnerable citizens.
Date: Monday March 4, 2019
Premier Jason Kenney at the 2019 Peter Lougheed Awards Dinner
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On Nov. 13 in Calgary, Premier of Alberta Jason Kenney explored three forms of reconciliation for Alberta's provincial government: with Alberta’s Indigenous people, of energy growth and environmental stewardship, and of the provincial and federal fields within Canadian Confederation.
Date: Thursday November 21, 2019
A Labour Force Paradigm Shift
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...in the early stages of these services.” The entire network of employers has had to respond in kind. Longshoremen, the Port Authority, Canadian Border Services Agency, tug operators, truckers and...
Date: Tuesday October 11, 2022
The Canada-China Relationship
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...case with public opinion about trade relationships, Canadians are more enthusiastic about increasing exports to China (69% would like to see an increase) than about increasing imports from China (24%...
Date: Saturday December 9, 2017
Revitalizing Atlantic Canada: immigration and the labour market
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...Canadians? These are some of the questions being addressed as part of the Public Policy Forum’s 3-year project on the topic being launched this March. The provinces of Atlantic Canada face...
Date: Monday March 12, 2018
The Mother of Invention: Skills for Innovation in the Post-Pandemic World
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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many workplaces to innovate rapidly in order to simply survive. But innovation is a critical component of our economic prosperity even during normal times. To be successful, Canada’s skills strategies must address skills for innovation across sectors — from solo entrepreneurs, to small and medium-sized businesses, to large corporations and even within government itself. While Canada has made significant efforts to foster a strong innovation economy, the pandemic has helped to reveal where these efforts have created strong foundations for success as well as areas where much remains to be done.
Date: Wednesday June 9, 2021