Search Results for: Youth
Territorial Dialogue on Youth Civic Engagement
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In the spring of 2013, Canada’s Public Policy Forum and Elections Northwest Territories co-convened the Territorial Dialogue on Youth Civic Engagement. This day-long roundtable session in Yellowknife involved youth leaders from the NWT, policy advisors...
Date: Monday September 16, 2013
Employment Challenges for Youth in a Changing Economy
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...finding long-term employment and building a sustained career is more important for youth than ever. To discuss actionable strategies for addressing the challenges of youth employment in a changing economy,...
Date: Monday January 14, 2013
Searching for Innovation? Look North!
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A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada is looking for paths forward to build back better. After a year of invaluable lessons learned, what do we know? What do we want to strengthen? What are we willing to change? What are the assets and building blocks for a stronger future?
Date: Tuesday March 30, 2021
Storytelling leads the way for inclusive policy design
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...literature review) is around the inter-generational impacts of financial exclusion within youths’ nested families. This highlights the weight of unhealed and unprocessed traumas that many youths carry, and how it...
Date: Thursday March 16, 2023
Legitimacy in Reconciliation: A Path Forward
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Indigenous youth had clear ideas on how to find the legitimacy needed for reconciliation at the Public Policy Forum's (PPF) Nov. 29 unconference in Regina. This report highlights their six recommendations. In August 2017, the Centre for Public Impact approached PPF to be a part of a global project that explores What is legitimacy? How is it achieved and preserved? How does it manifest in different parts of the world? PPF brought together 21 young Indigenous people to discuss if the Government of Canada has the legitimacy to deliver on its commitment to Indigenous Peoples and how it can work to build the trust and transparency required.
Date: Tuesday May 15, 2018
How to Mobilize Higher Education and Workforce Development for the Rapid Re-Employment of Canadians
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The COVID-19 crisis has derailed the careers of millions of Canadians. To support them, workforce leaders, and policy and decision makers need to mobilize education and training systems in some key ways – starting with robust labour market information and laying the foundation for a national system of lifelong learning.
Date: Thursday September 24, 2020
Mapping the Landscape: Indigenous Skills Training and Jobs in Canada
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Indigenous businesses are growing and — importantly — creating employment for others. Further, self-employment and entrepreneurship is increasing. If there is an opportunity for the next generation, and for current adult workers, to leapfrog into the future of Canadian work, it may very well be through Indigenous-led business.
Date: Thursday June 25, 2020
Transformational Gains
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Global events are creating unprecedented opportunities for Canada to attract capital, talent and companies. In an age of disruptive technological advances, Canada must focus on research, talent and innovation to strengthen its innovative capacity, global competitiveness, and economic and social fabric.
Date: Tuesday February 5, 2019
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
Pulling up roots: Bhutanese exodus from Halifax offers clues to why newcomers stay or go
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The disappearance of Bhutanese from Halifax is discouraging to those who believe the future of Atlantic Canada is tied to increased immigration, but it is also an opportunity to look at the factors that encourage newcomers to take root – and the factors that lead them away.
Date: Wednesday December 12, 2018
No More Islands of Care: Bolstering mental health and addictions services for pandemic & post-pandemic life on Prince Edward Island
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Prior to COVID-19, Prince Edward Island struggled to keep up with demand for mental health and addictions services. This account tells of the pivot to virtual care which sees P.E.I. with more psychiatrists on-call and more options for support. Good thing, because the long-term stresses brought by the pandemic have made these services more critical than ever before.
Date: Tuesday November 17, 2020
September 16, 2013: Strengthening Civic Collaboration roundtable summary report
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Over the past year, Canada’s Public Policy Forum has been working with various Canadian elections management organzations to identify strategies for improving youth voter turnout. At a time of complex...
Date: Monday September 16, 2013
Independent and Accountable: Modernizing the Role of Agents of Parliament and Legislatures
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In this report, the Public Policy Forum (PPF) analyzes the current and evolving role of agents at the federal and provincial levels to provide recommendations on how oversight and guidance in the administration of policies can be improved while maintaining their autonomy within Canada’s Westminster system.
Date: Thursday April 26, 2018
Change Inc. Toolkit: Cultivating Young Social Entrepreneurs
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...addressing the gaps in learning and application can enable youth to build on this emerging trend. With lead support from the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation (formerly Ministry of Economic...
Date: Friday May 11, 2012
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