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The Values Proposition – Strengthening Sport in Canada Symposium

On Oct. 15-16, we're bringing all the stories were heard from our coast-to-coast roundtables plus Canada's decision-makers and the biggest names in sports to strengthen values-based sport for the next generation. This will be the catalyst for defining the future of values-based sport in Canada.

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Diversification not Dependence: A Made-in-Canada China Strategy

Canada can truly diversify its trade and break its dependence on a single partner by pursuing a strategy built on sectoral trade agreements with China.

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PPF Fall Lecture: Canada and the Isolationists Next Door

Ambassador David MacNaughton will shed light on the new Canada-U.S. relationship. Journalists Luiza Savage of Politico and Ali Velshi of MSNBC will join renowned academic Janice Gross Stein of the Munk School to unpack the state of U.S. politics impacts on Canada.

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Oct. 30: Marcel Côté Awards in Montreal

This award is presented to Quebecers who demonstrate extraordinary leadership qualities and help improve public policy and public discourse at the municipal, provincial, national and/or international levels.

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Governance in the Digital Age

The digital transformation that governments are seeking and citizens are expecting is more than just 'a challenge,' says PPF's Prime Ministers of Canada Fellow Kent Aitken in this new report. After conducting almost 300 interviews over the course of a year, he concludes that governments are currently not set up for the complexities of the digital age and suggests four areas that they need to fundamentally change.

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Mind the Gaps: Quantifying the Decline of News Coverage in Canada

In our study of 20 small and mid-sized Canadian communities, the number and depth of newspaper articles about civic affairs declined sharply between 2008 and 2017, leaving citizens less informed about their democratic institutions.

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What the Saskatchewan Roughriders Can Teach Canadian Journalism

Many different approaches to support journalism, locally and beyond, have emerged in recent years in the wake of the sharp decline of traditional industry players. Public policy will play a crucial role in shaping the rules for ownership innovation and protected space for Canadian journalism.

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Democracy Divided: Countering Disinformation and Hate in the Digital Public Sphere

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.

PPF Blog

Follow the Fellows

The Action Canada Fellowship's 2018/2019 program is well underway. Follow the Fellows as they cross the country and study the 'future of food', their policy topic for the year. September's Saskatoon study tour is captured in the new blog.

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Good Policy. Better Canada

The Values Proposition – Strengthening Sport in Canada Symposium

Diversification not Dependence: A Made-in-Canada China Strategy

PPF Fall Lecture: Canada and the Isolationists Next Door

Oct. 30: Marcel Côté Awards in Montreal

Governance in the Digital Age

Mind the Gaps: Quantifying the Decline of News Coverage in Canada

What the Saskatchewan Roughriders Can Teach Canadian Journalism

Democracy Divided: Countering Disinformation and Hate in the Digital Public Sphere

Follow the Fellows

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