Search Results for: Youth
Anjum Sultana
Person
Anjum Sultana (She/Her) is an award-winning public affairs strategist, and a published health equity researcher with expertise in gender equity, public health, youth leadership and civic engagement. Anjum is the...
Date: Thursday September 9, 2021
Ontario Digital Inclusion Summit – Summary Report
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PPF hosted Ontario's first Digital Inclusion Summit back in February. Now, the summary report is available with key takeaways from the event that sparked a larger conversation on making the internet work for all.
Date: Tuesday May 29, 2018
How to Restore the Labour Market Balance: Transcript
Article
...workplaces from coast to coast to coast. But it hit very unequally. Work that required close contact with people—mainly in the services sector—was shut down. That disproportionately affected youth, women...
Date: Thursday November 17, 2022
Democracy Divided: Countering Disinformation and Hate in the Digital Public Sphere
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Democracy has been made vulnerable to attack by hate speech and disinformation on digital and social platforms. Policy must be implemented to reconcile freedom of speech and freedom of the press with these online news threats to democracy.
Date: Wednesday August 15, 2018
McGrath & Lingley-Pottie: Applying science to delivering mental health programs
Article
...Lingley-Pottie and Dr. Patrick McGrath have applied science to the task, coming up with a timely and effective way to offer mental health services to children and youth across vast...
Date: Tuesday May 23, 2017
Applying science to delivering mental health programs
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...offer mental health services to children and youth across vast distances. The Strongest Families Institute, a charitable organization in Halifax, delivers e-health programs using trained coaches through telephone support, removing...
Date: Wednesday May 24, 2017
A Model for Canada-wide Population and Economic Growth Post-Pandemic
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As we move toward rebuilding our economy, policymakers should consider the success of the Atlantic Immigration Pilot as a model for regionally focused population and economic growth, especially in smaller cities and rural communities – likely to be hardest hit by the COVID-19 reduction in immigration.
Date: Friday November 13, 2020
How One Indigenous Service Agency Is Fighting COVID and Winning
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"We're going to send our helpers in and we're not going to stop." The Kenora Chiefs Advisory, an Indigenous-led health and social services agency, got to work right away in the nine First Nations it serves to stop COVID from entering. And so far, it's worked.
Date: Tuesday December 15, 2020
An Investment that Works for Child Care
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In June 2022, Public Policy Forum outlined how to strengthen the workforce in the early learning and childcare sector through better recruitment, retention and recognition. This week, federal and provincial ministers responsible for early childhood learning answered that call.
Date: Wednesday September 14, 2022
Job Polarization in Canada
Publication
Job polarization is one of several trends — including automation, offshoring and the growing importance of the gig-economy — that were already of general interest prior to the onset of the pandemic, but which have been pushed even further into the centre of public policy discussions by the arrival of COVID-19. As Canadian policymakers consider how to build back the economy after the pandemic, addressing the problems created by job polarization needs to figure prominently in their priorities.
Date: Thursday April 15, 2021
Christiane Fox
Person
Christiane Fox was appointed Deputy Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship in July 2022. She is also the Deputy Minister Champion of the Federal Youth Network. Prior to her appointment,...
Date: Tuesday January 1, 2008
PPF’s Emerging Leader Award recognizes Indigenous advocate Caitlin Tolley
News
Filled with a burning desire to create positive change for her community, Caitlin Tolley has used her voice at home and on the global stage as an advocate for Indigenous people. On April 12, the Public Policy Forum will recognize her work with the Emerging Leader Award at its Annual Testimonial Dinner & Awards in Toronto.
Date: Wednesday February 7, 2018
Canada-China Session 1: Setting the stage, public opinion trends, approaches to trade
Article
Recap of the first meeting of PPF's Canada-China Forum includes presentations on public opinion by Bruce Anderson of Abacus Data and sectoral trade by Wendy Dobson of University of Toronto
Date: Tuesday July 25, 2017
Public servants learn reconciliation means relationship-building and action
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PPF’s reconciliation series didn’t answer all the questions about reconciliation but offered context and impetus to act. By: Jocelyn Formsma
Date: Friday August 3, 2018
Prince Edward Island Child Care Workforce Development Snapshot
Article
...require a two-year diploma, the recently updated wage scale for level three certified ECEs lags behind education assistants by $2 an hour and youth service workers by $5 an hour...
Date: Tuesday May 17, 2022