Search Results for: Trade
The Shattered Mirror: 5 Years On
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Our latest report discusses how to save local news in Canada, and how to best adapt the Australian model of negotiated compensation between Google/Meta and the news industry.
Date: Thursday March 3, 2022
Fix the Grid: How Canada Can Integrate Its Electricity Systems for a Clean, Prosperous Future
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While some provinces feast on clean power and export excess to the U.S., others face famine. A Canada Clean Power Fund could knit together a national grid to create a competitive advantage in the low-carbon future.
Date: Friday January 18, 2019
Drew Fagan
Person
...federal level, he was Assistant Deputy Minister for strategic policy and planning at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (now Global Affairs Canada). Before his public service career,...
Date: Sunday February 12, 2017
PPF’s new Atlantic newsletter tracks immigration and employment
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Atlantic Canada faces profound demographic changes that challenge its future prosperity and economic sustainability. With a new email newsletter, the Public Policy Forum will keep you up to date on our three-year research project on immigrant retention and labour market revitalization in the region and share other timely research and articles.
Date: Thursday December 13, 2018
Small Island, Big Impact
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...project in a different direction than typical of biosciences advocacy bodies or trade organizations elsewhere. “I wanted to explore the cluster idea, where we had a board structure that included...
Date: Wednesday September 7, 2022
Growth, Innovation and the Organization of Science Policy in Canada
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...export competitiveness weakened as its share of the U.S. market declined. USMCA, TPP and CETA notwithstanding, trade has not been a significant source of economic growth for many years. Over...
Date: Monday September 12, 2022
Business as Unusual
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In a message to the PPF community, our President & CEO Edward Greenspon addresses how PPF is re-calibrating and conceiving of new forms of digital engagement.
Date: Tuesday March 17, 2020
The Unclaimed Middle Ground Between Unrestrained Fiscal Spending and Unreasonable Restraint
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No one strikes out to claim the middle ground and yet that may very well be the most prudent strategy for a balanced economic recovery. There is a path for Canada between unnecessary fiscal restraint that stymies growth and excessive large-scale spending.
Date: Thursday October 15, 2020
Immigrant entrepreneurs: Highly desired, hard to attract
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Atlantic Canada is competing globally to attract newcomers to start or take over businesses, create jobs and build the economy. It’s obvious why governments want to recruit them, but it’s surprisingly hard to do.
Date: Monday July 22, 2019
Take the 2018 PPF Holiday Quiz!
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What's your wonk score? From 12 months of PPF policy events and projects, we've come up with 12 questions to challenge you. Take our Holiday Quiz.
Date: Tuesday December 18, 2018
Groups from Across Canada Join Initiative to Get Climate and Energy Policy Working Together
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The Energy Future Forum (EFF), a new pan-Canadian initiative to develop policy answers that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen the economy, was officially launched on Dec. 16 at a meeting in Toronto. It's an "unprecedented effort to find common cause in addressing Canada’s climate and energy challenges,” said PPF's Edward Greenspon.
Date: Monday December 16, 2019
Coming Home: Global Affairs’ Quest to Repatriate Canadians
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For six months, Global Affairs morphed into a giant consular and travel service. As part of the Public Service Innovation and Leadership During COVID-19 series, we dive into this account of historic department-wide shifts to consular services to help Canadians abroad. With a volunteer workforce of more than 1,000 public servants pulled from their day jobs, this consular focus led to major rethinking of how the department responds to an emergency and underscored the need to communicate the way Canadians do.
Date: Wednesday September 23, 2020
Announcing our 2019 Peter Lougheed Award honourees
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On Nov. 13, join us at our Western Dinner in Calgary to honour Elizabeth Cannon, Stockwell Day, Dawn Farrell & Dave Mowat. Tickets are on sale now.
Date: Monday June 24, 2019
The Next One
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Another health security threat will certainly come, and it will defy expectations yet again. Here's how Canada can defend itself against the next emergency.
Date: Monday September 25, 2023
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