Search Results for: Atlantic Canada
Shifting Gears: Steering Canada’s Urban Centers Towards a Sustainable Transportation Future
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READ THE FULL REPORT ON ACTIONCANADA.CA The current economic model, driven by consumption and short-term value, has led to urban transportation systems in Canadian cities contributing significantly to environmental degradation....
Date: Thursday February 29, 2024
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
Does serious journalism have a future in Canada?
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...award-winning journalist Madelaine Drohan has focused her attentions with this fellowship on how journalism informs policy-making in Canada. Her report looks at the main threats facing journalism in Canada and traces the outline...
Date: Thursday March 3, 2016
Benefit not Burden: Older workers and the future of work in Canada
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This report is about the future of work and how building an inclusive, resilient economic future requires a critical look at how we understand and value older workers.
Date: Thursday March 12, 2020
Canada’s Next Leap of Faith
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November marks the 40th anniversary of Donald Macdonald’s Royal Commission on Canada’s Economic Prospects, with its signature recommendation to take a leap of faith on free trade with the United...
Date: Saturday November 5, 2022
PPF names Karen Restoule as its 2018 Prime Ministers of Canada Fellow
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OTTAWA, Jan. 16, 2018 – The Public Policy Forum is pleased to announce that our 2018 Prime Ministers of Canada Fellow is Karen Restoule, who will focus her research on nation-to-nation...
Date: Tuesday January 16, 2018
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
Teaching a Machine to Fish
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...a hesitancy among Atlantic businesses to take risks. The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency reports it has nearly tripled funding for larger-scale automation projects between 2016 and 2019, up to about...
Date: Wednesday September 7, 2022
Different Paths of Pandemic Protection: A comparative case study on vaccine rollouts in Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario
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Getting Canadians immunized against COVID-19 has been a complicated process in a country that has neither the capabilities to produce its own vaccine nor a centralized healthcare system to administer it.
Date: Thursday October 28, 2021
Leading Innovation – Insights from Canadian Regions
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To truly understand innovation, you have to go where it is happening. And in Canada, innovation happens in local centres and not immediately on a national scale. The discussion about...
Date: Monday March 12, 2012
Citizens’ Assembly on Democratic Expression: Recommendations for Reducing Online Harms and Safeguarding Human Rights in Canada
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...Canada should regulate digital service providers to create a safe environment where Canadians can express themselves and be protected from a range of harms. The members of the Assemblies have...
Date: Thursday September 22, 2022
Jan. 20, 2014: Canada’s Evolving Internal Market: An agenda for a more cohesive economic union
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...with Canada’s Public Policy Forum, launched a project to explore the key issues around the Agreement on Internal (AIT), Canada’s national framework for the interprovincial trade of goods, services, labour,...
Date: Monday January 20, 2014
OPED: Making Canada’s Agents of Parliament truly independent and accountable
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...recommends the system be reformed with the guiding principle that agents should be responsible to Parliament or legislatures and not to the executive. Read the full article on iPolitics: https://ipolitics.ca/2018/04/26/making-canadas-agents-of-parliament-truly-independent-and-accountable/...
Date: Monday May 14, 2018
“I will have to work until the day I die”: Could portable benefits bring financial hope to essential workers caught in the messy middle of Canada’s economy?
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Gig-work continues to grow in preference among workers for its flexibility, but increasing frustration surrounding the lack of benefits is proving to be an important challenge that needs to be tackled. Could portable benefits be the solution the gig-work economy needs? Read this case study by Catherine Lathem on navigating precarity in non-standard work – all for PPF's Brave New Work project on the future of work.
Date: Thursday June 10, 2021
The Shattered Mirror: FAQ
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...its key points and recommendations, read on. Visit ShatteredMirror.ca to download the full report. THE SHATTERED MIRROR is the first major study of the state of the news media in Canada since...
Date: Tuesday June 6, 2017