Search Results for: Public Service
Science and Health Misinformation in the Digital Age
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Following PPF's 2020 report, Science Disinformation in a Time of Pandemic, PPF renews the project to continue the conversation with 2021's new initiative, Responding to Science Disinformation. In this report, fellow Peter Loewen and Eric Merkley consider the ways in which technology has impacted the spread of misinformation throughout the public, and how and in what ways policy makers can challenge misinformation without stifling free speech and freedom of expression.
Date: Wednesday July 21, 2021
APIs in Government
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Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) could dramatically improve the way governments deliver services and data to citizens while protecting governments from the risks associated with government-led digital projects. This report examines what was learned through two Government of Canada API projects, and how to build on their successes.
Date: Wednesday June 5, 2019
Unlocking Health Care: How to Free the Flow of Life-Saving Health Data in Canada
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A system that still uses faxes needs to shift into the smartphone era. It's time for an urgent modernization of the health-care system.
Date: Monday January 29, 2024
Do We Really Want to Make Canadians Poorer?
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...minimize overall costs and disruptions while reducing GHG emissions. Second, if public support for decarbonization is to be maintained over the multiple decades during which a grand decarbonization project will...
Date: Wednesday July 27, 2022
Securing Canada’s cyberspace
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...public bodies from using foreign services when personal information could be accessed from or stored outside of Canada. For privacy advocates, these laws have helped secure Canadian information from being...
Date: Monday February 6, 2017
COVID-19 and Canada’s Border
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With COVID-19 raging out of control in the U.S., the last thing most Canadians want to contemplate is more entrants from abroad. But it could be a year before a vaccine arrives and much longer until it is administered globally. If COVID has taught us anything it is that, this time, we have to be ahead of the curve on border control.
Date: Tuesday July 28, 2020
Trust must be earned and re-earned in climate change
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...how to establish and maintain trust in today’s highly contentious and volatile landscape. Public confidence means different things to different people. Some even dismiss the relevance of public opinion, choosing...
Date: Sunday November 6, 2016
Greg Orencsak
Person
...Greg first joined the Ontario Public Service (OPS) in 1999 on an internship as an economist for the Ministry of Finance. Since then, he has held progressively senior positions in...
Date: Saturday January 1, 2000
It’s not a problem we need to solve, it’s really about good management
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As the world of work continuously shifts, modernizes and innovates, what moves can be made to get and stay ahead when it comes to making work more accessible? PPF co-hosted The Future of Accessible Work panel discussion with Microsoft Canada featuring national and international accessibility leaders & advocates. This speaker series engaged PPF members to learn about accessibility and inclusion straight from the experts. To keep the conversation going and share our lessons learned, we have encapsulated five significant takeaways from the discussion.
Date: Wednesday March 11, 2020
Marian Campbell Jarvis
Person
...the first PPF-Public Service Senior Fellow. In her current role, Ms. Campbell Jarvis provides strategic policy advice and program management, including international and intergovernmental affairs, on all immigration matters to...
Date: Thursday August 31, 2023
Indigenous Child Care Workforce Development Snapshot
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...Aboriginal Head Start Urban and Northern Initiative. Government of Canada. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/health-promotion/childhood-adolescence/publications/aboriginal-head-start-urban-northern-initiative.html#a2 ↑ Indigenous Services Canada. (n.d.). First Nations Head Start – Standards Guide. Government of Canada. https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1582215017700/1582215088300#_114 ↑ Employment and...
Date: Friday May 6, 2022
The Shattered Mirror: FAQ
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...— the coverage of the public institutions, public affairs and communities — need support? If so, how can we ensure it does not lock in privilege and stifle innovation, and...
Date: Tuesday June 6, 2017
PPF Chair Invested in the Order of Canada
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...and the public service, the private sector, Indigenous groups, labour, post-secondary institutions and NGOs to improve policy outcomes for Canadians. As a non-partisan, member-based organization, we work from “inclusion to...
Date: Friday November 17, 2017
The Dis-United States
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Today's bi-lateral Canada-U.S. relationship finds itself being tested like never before. There have been clear signals of a return to normal, but is that a realistic expectation in the wake of the Trump presidency and the deep divisions evident in U.S. society? The Public Policy Forum in partnership with Global Affairs Canada, assembled a roundtable of Canadian and American foreign-policy experts and several points of consensus emerged.
Date: Wednesday April 21, 2021
Toward a National Adaptation Strategy
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The Public Policy Forum convened a roundtable discussion on June 16, 2021, to look at the development of a national adaptation strategy in Canada that spans disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation domains. The participants represented a range of public- and private-sector perspectives on the key challenges that need to be addressed to push towards greater resilience and adaptation and confront the challenges of climate change. The conversation also looked at the need to set clear time-bound targets and performance measures and ensure these are grounded in Canada’s Emergency Management Strategy.
Date: Monday August 16, 2021