Search Results for: Regulation
Options for a Canada-China FTA Negotiation Strategy
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...while the first steps can be sectoral, later steps will require cross-sectoral bargaining on such trade and investment issues common to all sectors as intellectual property protection, FDI regulation and...
Date: Tuesday June 20, 2017
Speer and Asselin: How Canada can compete in the intangibles economy
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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
March 3, 2014: Subsequent Entry Biologics in Canada: the case for multi-sector collaboration (final report)
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...of the current SEB regulatory regime is necessary, and agreed that multi-sector collaboration will help stakeholders navigate the complex landscape of biologic and SEB regulation in Canada. Download the report...
Date: Monday March 3, 2014
Public Interest and Media Infrastructures
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Today’s media systems include the powerful social media companies that watch, commodify, and manipulate us as they buy and sell our data. Mike Ananny urges a more sophisticated understanding of the privately controlled infrastructures where important decisions are made shaping behaviours, beliefs and online news. These might look like boring, messy, technical places where only engineers work, but regulators need to grasp their complexities and tackle the prevailing secrecy to better protect the public interest.
Date: Tuesday September 1, 2020
Project of the Century
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Electricity demand is forecast to double by 2050. To meet it, supply will have to grow an astounding two to three times today’s volume. Here’s a roadmap for how to meet this urgent nation-building goal.
Date: Wednesday July 19, 2023
Indigenous Child Care Workforce Development Snapshot
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...Head Start Standards Guide provides a template for program design and implementation with no cost to participants and the guidelines are merely suggestions, unlike binding regulations for provincially licensed early...
Date: Friday May 6, 2022
More than Just a Rebuild: Creating a better future for Canada
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The country has been held back by lagging productivity and competitiveness, leading to a stagnant growth rate incapable of lifting Canadians’ standards of living. As we rebuild, simply going back to ‘normal’ is not an option.
Date: Thursday July 30, 2020
Recommendations to Strengthen Canada’s Response to New Digital Technology and Reduce the Harm Caused by their Misuse
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How can we create a vibrant digital public sphere that doesn’t by design expose people to an ocean of baser instincts — much less to hatred and abuse? The Citizens’ Assembly on Democratic Expression explores the question of online harms, as Canadians spend more and more time on the Internet, particularly in the COVID-19 pandemic. These 42 members, randomly selected from a pool of volunteers, who we hope represent the widest possible range of voices and perspectives, come together to provide 33 recommendations that balance the harms of misuse of technology with freedom of speech.
Date: Thursday January 28, 2021
Report Highlights | Poisoning Democracy: How Canada Can Address Harmful Speech Online
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The rise of harmful speech online is a threat to Canada’s democracy. This report outlines how governments and digital platform companies can better address hate and harassment, including the creation of a Moderation Standards Council.
Date: Thursday November 8, 2018
A New North Star
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Rapid and far-reaching changes to the global economy, driven by technology, demographics and geopolitics, are forcing us to rethink some of the core assumptions of what makes a nation competitive or not. Robert Asselin and Sean Speer offer a bi-partisan strategy for what Canada can do in a data-driven 'intangibles' economy.
Date: Thursday April 4, 2019
Five big things we learned at the Brave New Work Conference
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The prospect of losing our jobs to automation may keep us up at night and change our politics, but there are other factors at play, too. Here are five key challenges and some smart policy responses that emerged at the inaugural Brave New Work Conference.
Date: Tuesday August 6, 2019
Report 6: Three Areas in Which Pandemic Management Could Have Been Better
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Members of Canada’s political class should on balance receive at least a passing grade for their management of the pandemic, and Canadians should be both proud and worried about policymakers’ performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. The three areas in which they could have done better include: keeping schools open, using technology to combat the pandemic, and prioritizing vaccine targeting.
Date: Tuesday July 27, 2021
Party Financing in Canada: Perpetually New Challenges
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...must be tight enough to inhibit undue influence but loose enough to accommodate emerging, legitimate methods of communication. Canadian parliaments and the courts have determined that some regulation of spending,...
Date: Friday March 16, 2018
Canada’s Associations See What’s Trending in the Future of Work
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From new ways of approaching lifelong learning to recognizing that technology is not the only driver of workplace change, representatives of Canadian associations shared their perspectives on the changing nature of work and how workers and employers are affected.
Date: Monday April 1, 2019
Opinion: As revenue declines and big tech steps in, there are three options to help journalism in Canada
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Facebook and Google have signed secret deals with dozens of desperate publishers to provide financial and other supports.
Date: Wednesday August 11, 2021